Favorite Song/Quote

[lauwalton]

What's your favorite song/quote from the 1930's/40's?

 

[Mike in Seattle]

I believe there's at least one other thread on this topic. Perhaps a bartender can do a merge...

 

[lauwalton]

couldn't find one..have a link?

 

[Chas]

1920's: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust....if the women don't get you, the liquor must"

1930's "every mile's a weary mile in hollywood.."

1940's: "put the chitlin's on the stove, Arabella....here comes your no-account fella"

 

[LocktownDog]

"it wouldn't be make-believe, if you believe in me"

Richard

 

[Smithy]

"K.B.O. - Keep ******ing on" - Winston Churchill

 

[pennycarrol]

My favourites are (I'll include some 50's songs lol!!)
- The man I love by Dinah Washington (well everything she sang actually!)
- Pick yourself up by Fred Astaire
- Just a gigolo/I ain't nobody by Louis Prima
- My funny valentine by Chet Baker
- In the cool cool of the evening by Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby

I love so many songs it's just hard to make a list lol lol!!!!!!

 

[sweetfrancaise]

"it wouldn't be make-believe, if you believe in me"

Richard

I adore that song. One of those that I'll sing along to whenever I hear it!

"Say it's only a canvas sky, hangin' over a muslin tree..."

Gotta love it. Reminds me of a stage set, you know?

 

[Sweet Leilani]

"Kick your cares down the stairs; come to Holiday Inn!"

(eponymous song from the movie Holiday Inn)

 

[Twitch]

I like Jimmy Cagney's quote in White heat as he stands atop the flaming fuel tank,"Look Ma, I'm on top of the world!"

A great example of how things rapidly change in real life

 

[Bill Taylor]

Teens (1917 Over There, Nora Bayes (written by George M. Cohan)
1920s Swanee, Al Jolson and My Man, Fannie Brice
1930s We'll Meet Again - 1939 - Vera Lynn (probably should
be in 40s with WWII songs
1940s White Cliffs of Dover - 1942 Vera Lynn and also Kate
Smith, Don't Fence Me In, Bing Crosby, Don't Sit Under
The Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me, The
Andrews Sisters

The 30s and 40s songs above are my favorites because I remember hearing them played so often during the time, both on the radio and 78 records. My sisters literally wore out the Vera Lynn records. I have lots of other favorites, but I think these are my most favorite.

Bill

 

[Diamondback]

Not exactly from then, but from a period film set in that time...

"It's a funny thing. No matter how low you sink, there's still a right and a wrong—and you always end up choosing. You go one way so you can try to live with yourself. You can go the other and still be walking around... but you're dead and you don't know it."

‚ÄîJohn Smith (Bruce Willis), Last Man Standing​

 

[KY Gentleman]

"Hey everybody, lets have some fun. You only live life once and when you're dead you're done....Let The Good Times Roll..." Louis Jordan 1946
"Let the Good Times Roll"

 

[Miss 1929]

Savage Serenade

which contains the undying line,
"It's the jungle telegraph
Cracks our cultured shell in half
With it's bom-diddy-bom-diddy-bom-diddy-bom-diddy-bom-diddy-bom-diddy-bom!"

What can I say, I like high art...

 

[Ian Dundrillon]

Back in Nagasaki, where the fellas chew tabacky and the women wicki, wacki woo. Harry Warren/Mort Dixon (1928)

 

[shoelessjoe]

Favorite Song Line

'Stardust,' by Carmichael & Parish

You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by

 

[LadyStardust]

'Stardust,' by Carmichael & Parish

You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by

:arated:
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely nights
Dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie......

 

[shoelessjoe]

Stardust: http://www.deezer.com/track/55255
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that were apart

 

[LadyStardust]

Stardust: http://www.deezer.com/track/55255
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that were apart

Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain...

http://www.deezer.com/track/45928

 

[carebear]

Since "Paper Moon" was taken, how about "Falling In Love Again" and/or "Where Or When"?