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The Old Music Master
From: webmaster@johnnymercer.com
CommentsThe Old Music Master..sung by Dick Powell in True To Life(1943)..Paramount. Music by Hoagy Carmichael...other stars in TRUE TO LIFE..Mary Martin, Franchot Tone, Victor More...some other tunes were.. Mister Pollyanna, There She Was... For Educational and Research Use
One night long ago by the light of the moon, an old music master sat composing a tune, His spirit was soaring and his heart full of joy, When right out of no-where stepped a little colored boy You gotta jump it music master, You gotta play that rhythm fast-er You're never gonna get it played On the Happy Cat Hit Parade. You better tell your friend Beethoven, and Mister Reginald De KoVen, they better do the same as you,- or they're gonna be corny too. Long about nineteen seventeen. Jazz'll come up on the scene,then about nineteen thirty five, You'll begin to hear swing, Boogie Woogie and Jive, You gotta show that big broadcaster, that you're a solid music master, and you'll a-chieve posterity, That's a bit of advice from me. The old music master simply sat there amazed, as wide eyed and open mouthed he gazed, and he gazed, How can you be certain little boy, tell me how? Because I was born, my friend, a hundred years from now. He hit a chord that rocked the spinet and disappeared in the "imfinite", and up until the present day, you can take it from me he's as right as can be, Everything has happened that a way.
From: Paul Callomon CommentsMany thanks for providing the missing lyrics. Interestingly, there are some minor differences between this version and the Paul Whiteman recording : What about my friend Beethoven.. not You better tell your friend Beethoven Lucky Strike Hit Parade not Happy Cat Hit Parade groovy music master not solid music master I was born, he said not I was born, my friend I expect some of these were introduced to 'update' the lyric, and to accommodate a different sponsor. Which, I wonder, is the authorised version? |
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