"If you’ve heard any musical news
You know we’ve grown quite fond of the blues
Cross Road’s has ‘Come on in the Kitchen’ with ’32-20 Blues’
and Love In Vain gave us the vivaciously lonely ‘Terraplane Blues’;
Some movie soundtracks played ‘Let’s Call a Heart a Heart’ and ‘I Can’t Escape From You’.
Billboards first music hit parade had artists aching for a win;
Kirk’s ‘Christopher Columbus’ sailed above Dorsey’s ‘San Francisco’ in slot number 10
but I didn’t guess that at slot 3 “I’m Shooting High” and “A Star Fell Out of Heaven”
“The Touch of Your Lips” “On the Beach of Bali-Bali”
Or the Goodman “When it’s Springtime in the Rockies”
I’ll say I’ve had enough of Lud Gluskin & his Orchestra putting her in a trance
So listen to Astaire, and “Let’s Face the Music & Dance”!
This is a take on Fitzgerald’s healing list of popular tunes from the mid 1930’s. Music was moving from the general to breaking off into specific genres more and more throughout the 1930’s. With the exception of western music, musical tunes, and pop artists like Gene Holiday and Shirley Temple, American music broke into two sub-genres, folk and jazz; large bands adopted singers and jazz broke-off into a swing style of music giving birth to dances such as “the jitterbug”.
