By Michael Stevenson | host WRIU 90.3 FM
Below is a replay of the September 30th episode of Picture This: Film Music on the Radio. The show airs every Sunday at 6 pm on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org, and available on a number of free, downloadable apps that you can find out about on the website, WRIU.org.
On this episode, we celebrate the one and only Harry Warren, eminent composer of literally dozens of hit tunes written for movies from the early 1930s through the late 1950s.
Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna; December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing “Lullaby of Broadway”, “You’ll Never Know” and “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”. He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, 42nd Street, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he would collaborate on many musical films.
Over a career spanning six decades, Warren wrote more than 800 songs. Other well known Warren hits included “I Only Have Eyes for You”, “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby”, “Jeepers Creepers”, “The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re in the Money)”, “That’s Amore”, “There Will Never Be Another You”, “The More I See You”, “At Last” and “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (the last of which was the first gold record in history). Warren was one of America’s most prolific film composers, and his songs have been featured in over 300 films. [Source: Wikipedia]
LISTEN TO THE PROGRAM:
PLAYLIST:
- “We’re in the Money” (m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin) performed by Dick Hames
“- You’re Getting to Be a Habit With Me” ((m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin) performed by Doris Day - “With Plenty of Money and You” (m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin) performed by Dick Powell
- “I Only Have Eyes for You” (m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin) performed by The Flamingos
- “Lullaby of Broadway” (m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin) performed by Bette Midler
- “Chica Chica Boom Boom” (Warren, l. Mack Gordon) performed by Carmen Miranda
- “Y Csy ti pamietasz?” (Warren, l. Mack Gordon)
- “I Yi Yi Lik You Very Much” (m. Harry Warren, l. Gorman & Leslie) performed by Carmen Miranda
- “Jeepers Creepers” m. Harry Warren, l. Johnny Mercer) performed by Louis Armstrong
- End Title: “An Affair to Remember” (1957) (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon)
- “At Last” performer (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon) by Etta James
- “Sweet and Slow” (m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin) performed by Maria Muldaur
- “You’ll Never Know” performed by Alice Faye (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon)
- “You Can’t Say No to a Soldier” (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon)performed by Joan Merrill
- “There Will Never Be Another You” performed by Joe Williams w Count Basie Band
- “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon) performed by Glen Millier
- “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo” (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon) performed by Glen Millier
- “That’s Amore” (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon) performed by Dean Martin
- “Dormi, Dormi Dormi” (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon)
performed by Jerry Lewis and Salvatore Baccaloni
“Zing a Little Zong” (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon) Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney - “Rose of Rio Grande” (m. Harry Warren, l. Ross Gorman, and Edgar Leslie) performed by Sidney Bechet
- “Nagasaki” (m. Harry Warren, l. Mort Dixon) performed by Django Reinhardt & the Quintette du Hot Club of France
- “Lulu’s Back in Town” (m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin) performed by Leon Redbone
- “About a Quarter to Nine” (m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin) performed by Al Jolson
- “The More I See You” (m. Harry Warren, l. Mack Gordon) performed by Chris Montez
- “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” (m. Harry Warren, l. Johnny Mercer) Judy Garland
- “She’s a Latin From Manhattan’ (m. Harry Warren, l. Al Dubin) performed by Bobby Short