Lullaby of Broadway (song)
Lullaby of Broadway is a song by Harry Warren in 1935. The text was written by Al Dubin. First came the song in the musical film The Gold Diggers of 1935 (Gold Diggers of 1935), where it was sung by Wini Shaw. At the Academy Awards in 1936, Harry Warren and Al Dubin won for her song Oscar in the category "Best Song."
Career of the song
After Lullaby of Broadway was in 1935 for the first time heard in Gold Diggers, it was Special Agent used in the same year for the Bette Davis movie as background music. The song is from the nightlife at Broadway and its inhabitants, who can not get to sleep until dawn.
A popular version of Lullaby of Broadway 1936 was the version with the brothers Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey. That same year the song was also used as background music Merrie Melodies of in one of their cartoons, Jimmy Noone, Benny Goodman, The Boswell Sisters, The Golden Seven and Peter Kreuder recorded the song in 1935. The Andrews Sisters recorded a version of Lullaby of Broadway, as well as Ella Fitzgerald, who released the song on her album Ella Fitzgerald Sing Sweet Songs for Swingers. She was accompanied by the bandleader Frank De Vol
In 1951, Warner Brothers, a Doris Day movie, which is titled Lullaby of Broadway ( German title The lullaby of Broadway ). In the same year the song was ranked in the Top 50 of the Cashbox.
From 1959-1960 Lullaby of Broadway served as the theme song of the American television series Johnny Midnight, in which Edmond O'Brien held the title role.
Beginning of the 1960s also took Connie Francis song on their album Where the Boys Are, as did this Caterina Valente in 1963 on their album Caterina Valente in London did. 1973 pulled the Pasadena Roof Orchestra by and published in 1979, Bram Tchaikovsky a single with the title. Just as the jazz singer and entertainer Tony Bennett, the country band Dixie Chicks released the song in 2006 on their album Duets: An American Classic. Bette Midler released the song in 1973 on her album Bette Midler.
The Milford Plaza Hotel used the song for a commercial sport. The Muppets made to the song in an episode of the Muppet Show to own.
Lisa Stansfield pointed in her music video for her 1990 Cole Porter song Down in the Depths at the beginning and end of the video to Lullaby of Broadway.
Published in 2003, the jazz singer and song writer Dianne Reeves song on their album A Little Moonlight. The musical actress Idina Menzel in 2005 he took on a hip-hop version of the song, which in the documentary Showbusiness: The Road to Broadway sounds towards the end. Tom Lord lists 120 cover versions of the song in the field of jazz.