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The song was included on their 1968 album, Live at the Talk of the Town. Country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers references "Sweet Adeline" in his song "My Old Pal". The song was briefly sung by drunkards in the film Victor/Victoria. The song was part of a medley of barbershop songs sung by the Beagle Boys in an episode of DuckTales.
Sweet Adeline is a musical with music by Jerome Kern, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and original orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett. It premiered on Broadway in 1929. The story, set in the Gay Nineties , concerns a Hoboken, New Jersey girl who, unlucky in love, becomes a Broadway star.
Sweet Adeline is a 1934 musical film adaptation of the 1929 Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II Broadway play of the same title. It stars Irene Dunne and Donald Woods and was directed by Mervyn LeRoy .
His biggest hit was "Sweet Adeline", written in 1903 with Richard H. Gerard. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His 1905 sentimental ballad " Nellie Dean " became the signature song of the British music hall singer Gertie Gitana , [ 3 ] and subsequently a popular British pub song .
"Why Was I Born?" is a 1929 song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. [4] It was written for the show Sweet Adeline (1929) and introduced by Helen Morgan. [5] Popular recordings in 1930 were by Helen Morgan and by Libby Holman. [6]
Sweet Adeline may refer to: "Sweet Adeline" (song) , a 1903 ballad best known as a barbershop standard Sweet Adeline (musical) , a 1929 Broadway musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
They had diminishing success, but in 1922 made the first recording of "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", later a rock and roll hit song. [3] After that line-up disbanded in 1925, Burr formed a new version of the Peerless Quartet, with himself, Carl Mathieu, Stanley Baughman and James Stanley. [5] The line-up made a film at that time with Pathé ...
Sweet Adelines International, a worldwide organization of women singers, was established in 1945 by Edna Mae Anderson of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The aim was to teach and train its members in music and to create and promote barbershop quartets and other musical groups. [ 25 ]