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The song then ends, not on a note of resignation, but with anger – repeating the beginning (as is usual for Broadway songs), an octave higher, but with a significant change: the friendly "Brother, can you spare a dime?" is replaced with the more assertive "Buddy, can you spare a dime?"
The Revue include "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" Walk A Little Faster (1932) - lyricist; Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 (1934) - primary lyricist (for about half of the numbers) Life Begins at 8:40 (1934) - co-lyricist with Ira Gershwin; The Show is On (1936) - featured lyricist; Blue Holiday (1945) - all-Black cast - contributing composer and lyricist
The pair's most famous song was "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," based on a lullaby that Gorney learned as a child in Russia. It first appeared in the 1932 Shubert production of New Americana and became the anthem of the Great Depression.
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (Words by E. Y. Harburg, music by Jay Gorney) "Let Me Match My Private Life With Yours" (Words by E. Y. Harburg, music by Vernon Duke) "Ringside–Madison Square Garden" (Music by Winthrop Sargeant) "Five Minutes of Spring" (Words by E. Y. Harburg, music by Jay Gorney) "Would’ja For a Big Red Apple" (Words by ...
Born in Los Angeles and raised in New York City, Gorney was one of three children of Jay Gorney, [2] the Polish-born composer who wrote the music for the song about America's Great Depression, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" [1] Her family is Jewish. [3]
Abney Park Band in Torrance California on February 25, 2017. Abney Park is a steampunk band based in Seattle.The band is named after an iconic gothic cemetery, the Abney Park Cemetery in London where Robert Brown, the founder of the band, lived and studied for a period in 1988.
With the exception of the title track, an original song by Tormé, the album mostly consists of covers of popular songs from the late 1920s and early 1930s, around the period when the real-life Bonnie and Clyde were committing their bank robberies. (Another exception is "I Concentrate on You", a Cole Porter song from 1940.)
A fact from Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 July 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that business leaders tried to ban the Depression anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" for being "a dangerous attack on the American economic system"?