Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (song)
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams ( And Dream Your Troubles Away ) is a pop song from 1931, the Harry Barris ( 1995-1962 ) was composed to a text by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll. The song was a hit and became known jazz standard.
Genesis
Harry Barris, of the vocal trio formed Rhythm Boys with Bing Crosby and Al Rinker who sang from 1926 to 1930 with Paul Whiteman, was trained as a pianist and tried to become successful as a songwriter. He not only wrote Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams for Crosby, but also other numbers such as Music Hath Charms ( 1930) and At Your Command ( 1931). The composition has 32 bars and is played at a moderate pace. It is constructed in the form of a song A'A "BA", the A- parts are all kept in C major; the B section is partly in the minor.
The lyrics of the song, prompting you to wrap one's problems in dreams and dream away the cares, reflects the days of the Great Depression resist: "If the skies are cloudy and gray. " Someday the sun will shine again; on rain always follow nice weather. The " was exactly the encouragement that needed America in the early thirties. "
Bing Crosby, who sang with the Rhythm Boys previously took to be the first on the song. On the recording for Victor Records Crosby was accompanied by members of the orchestra Gus Arnheim. "With a sweet violin begins " the original version of Crosby, " in which he also acted whistling. " Crosby reached Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams fourth place in the American singles chart and used the song also temporarily as the theme song for his radio show.
More versions
Already in the same year created, inter alia, the versions of swing musicians such as Louis Armstrong, McKinney 's Cotton Pickers with Benny Carter and the Will Osborne Orchestra, then by Harry James ( with the arrangement by Jimmy Mundy ) and Woody Herman (1946 ). 1939 Crosby played a remake of the song; he took him throughout his career several times, including in his film debut, One More Chance ( 1931).. As the song by the movie musical Top Man / Man of the Family was currently playing, came Erskine Hawkins ( with his orchestra and the singing alto saxophonist Jimmy Mitchell) with the song in June 1942 to # 23 on the U.S. charts. In the 1950s, followed by interpretations of June Christy, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra (1955) and Dean Martin ( 1959). Wrap Your Troubles Now made in Dreams as a jazz instrumental career. Among the most important artists of those years include Stan Getz, Don Byas, Art Tatum, Roy Eldridge and Hampton Hawes / Harold Land ( For Real 1958). Charles Mingus was interpreting the song at its 1960 session with the mainstream "veterans" Roy Eldridge, Tommy Flanagan and Jo Jones; the pianist Bill Evans had 1962 with its Interplay session in the repertoire as well as in 1967 at the Village Vanguard.
The version of Howard Alden and Bucky Pizzarelli used Woody Allen in his film Sweet and Lowdown (1999).
As Bobby McFerrin 1988 Do not Worry, Be Happy grossed, he was criticized, this was an apolitical song like Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams. Pete Seeger, however, described the song as a political songs that he knew.
Eponymous song by Lou Reed
The headline to wrap their own problems in dreams, provoked in the 1960 another song with melody and lyrics by Lou Reed, which says ironically: "I keep dreaming of better days. " This song was from the Velvet Underground, but also of Nico ( on their debut Chelsea Girl, 1967) and interpreted by Bauhaus ( with Nico ).