Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written by lyricist Yip Harburg and composer Jay Gorney , it was part of the 1932 musical revue Americana ; the melody is based on a Russian-Jewish lullaby.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora, [4] consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clips [5] to portray the era of the Great Depression.
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
It contained the famous song, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”, which a New York Times review called "the first song of the year that can be sung" and remarked "Mr. Gorney has expressed the spirit of these times with more heart-breaking anguish than any of the prose bards of the day." [9] The show was also favorably reviewed for its dance ...
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.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
The title of the episode and the plot, to a certain extent, is a reference to the common expression "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", a song of the Great Depression that has been recorded multiple times by artists since. [4] Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp can be seen among the bums.
"You Can't Stop Me From Loving You" w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols "You Forgot Your Gloves" w. Edward Eliscu m. Ned Lehac. Introduced by Constance Carpenter and Carl Randall in the revue The Third Little Show "You Rascal You" w.m. Sam Theard "You Try Somebody Else" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "You're Blasé" w. Bruce ...