Goodnight My Love (1956 song)
1956
Goodnight My Love ( Pleasant Dreams ) ( German: "Good night, my love (pleasant dreams) " ), sometimes shortened Goodnight My Love titled, is a successful rhythm-and - blues ballad by George Motola and Jesse Belvin from the year 1956th The original photo was taken by Jesse Belvin for Modern Records. Per Cut In the songwriter John Marascalco BelVins share -bought rights to the author. The chord progression of the verse corresponds to a pop - typical turnaround and is interrupted twice by a bridge. The song is addressed to a loved one that you want under insurance of mutual affection for the evening farewell a good night. By 1977, the piece in seven versions in the American charts was.
Formation
When Jesse Belvin in 1956 for the hit Dreamy Eyes the group The Youngsters sang the falsetto voice in Empire Records, he met the label boss George Motola know. The independent producer took Belvin, as he began to work for Modern Records. Together they worked Goodnight My Love ( Pleasant Dreams ), where there are the exact contributions and shares the songwriting different reports: According to Billy Vera's research Motola had already conceived the song in the 1940s and Belvin only contributed the bridge. According to Steve Propes and Galen Gart, however Belvin brought the unfinished composition in Motolas office. The producer already knew about the financial importance of promising song rights and took over for $ 400 like the publisher shaft with its publisher House of Fortune Music. He also added at the bridge. Also Motolas songwriting partner John Marascalco was added to the session and helped in the completion of the song. A few days later called Jesse Belvin, who just needed money Marascalco and offered him $ 400 for his half to the author rights. Marascalcos money enabled Belvin to marry his future manager Jo Ann Johnson, who at this time worked in a record store of John Dolphin as a saleswoman.
Only a few weeks after the sale of the piece, Jesse Belvin went with George Motola for recording in the studio. Motolas Modern - mate Maxwell Davis had contributed an arrangement for strings. For the background chorus singing quartet under the direction of Don Raike and his wife Dee Dee Patrick were engaged. You may also sang Motolas wife Rickie Page at the Don Raike Singers. The prominently -heard backing chorus was unusual for an independent label that time. At the Piano helped out was 11 -year-old Barry White. The title was registered by Motola and Marascalco on December 10, 1956 at the Library of Congress.
Musical structure
Goodnight My Love ( Pleasant Dreams ) is a ballad in the moderate pace. The original recording of the song is in C major in 4/4-time and is presented mainly triplet. While the piano accompaniment plays eighth-note triplets, the singer uses the melody in quarter note triplets and dotted notes shuffled. Eighth note triplets are only sung in the bridge. The four-bar intro followed by two stanzas, each consisting of four turnarounds over the chords C major, A minor, D minor and G major, thus gradually theoretically I-VI - II-V can be represented. The following Bridge alternates between E major and B major, then a minor third to move up to G major and D major. Then the first verse, the bridge, and again the first stanza are repeated, and then the song fades ritardierend.
Publications
The song was released in October 1956 Modern 1005 with I Want You With Me Christmas. BelVins first name was varied to " Jessie ". The Christmas B-side was replaced after the holidays by Let Me Love You Tonight. 1959 Belvin was with Guess Who in the charts, so that Jamie Records brought out the Modern Recording with additional string arrangement under the number 1145, but without parentheses in the title, again. In the same year the original was published together with Senorita at Modern sublabel Kent Records again under the number 1005. 1960 was a Nachausgabe on Lana Records in the mid- 1960s, again an issue on Modern oldies. A note issue was published by Musikverlag Quintet Music of Lester Sill, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in collaboration with George Motolas own publishing house House of Fortune. The sales took over the New York publishing house Hill and Range. On long- playing record of the title first appeared in 1959 on the compilation Casual Jesse Belvin of Crown Records, a subsidiary of Modern Records, which is dedicated to the cost- new edition of the catalog of the parent company. After Jesse BelVins accidental death on February 6, 1960, this practice was continued by numerous compilations, including split editions, with Brook Benton.
Cover versions
Goodnight My Love ( Pleasant Dreams ) has been since it was first published over 50 gecovert times. Many performers shorten the title in the indication on the sound and let the parenthesis away. When publishing on LP, the title is like to set as the closing track. The QRS Company had 1956 by Clyde Ridge Roll a Word for pianola record to more instrumental versions submitted in 1962 and 1990, Fred Mollin Ray Anthony ago.
Importance, success and criticism
Goodnight My Love ( Pleasant Dreams ) quickly developed into an R & B standard. The co-owners of Modern Records Saul Bihari had the song his New York friend recommended Alan Freed, who used him as a guy its popular, nightly radio show on WINS. Also on the west coast of the title received plenty of airplay and was also placed in various local radio charts. National reached the disk space of the seven R & B Jukebox charts and remained three weeks in the R & B sales charts of Billboard magazine. The multiple re-edition of the play was the title of the superior " bread merit - song " of the Modern Group.
The success of the title underpinned BelVins ambitions, seek out the black, perceived as rough R & B genre crossover into the pop music market. His musical and vocal inspiration for this was Nat King Cole, and in particular its hit Sentimental Reasons. At his greatest success Guess Who from 1959 to Belvin oriented strongly to Goodnight My Love. Don Raikes Chorsatz also anticipated the arrangement of Sam Cooke's first pop recording You Send Me on Keen Records from the year 1957.
Billy Vera praised the emotionality of the piece. To date, he could not hear BelVins performance without aufkämen in him " feelings of innocent romance ." It is a perfect blend of a rock ballad and a string landscape that sounds like film music. Dick Clark also recalled in his biography like the fact that he finished his dance events with BelVins " wonderfully romantic " Ballade, to which the couple once again were able to cling to one another. Gretchen Christopher of the Fleetwoods adopted with the song the late George Motola 1991 to its burial at sea.
Already in the year of first publication who covered the McGuire Sisters, the piece and thus charted high in the pop charts. 1959 reached Ray Peterson with his version the 64th place. In the 1960s, The Fleetwoods, Ben E. King and Paul Anka of the song took on, reaching the top list of the American music market. The most recent chart listing dates from 1977 and goes back to the funk band Tavares, however, as the original version in 1956, scored only in the black market division of the R & B charts. Outside the United States did not reach a recording of the song leaderboards. 1987 Los Lobos played Goodnight My Love for the film La Bamba on the short career of Ritchie Valens, a. The song also appeared on the accompanying soundtrack album, which sold over two million copies.