1934 Sam Robbins - The Beat O’ My Heart (Sam Robbins, vocal)

[@TyroneEpps]

Excellent music

[@johnnyp8979]

Hey ! I like it and sounds good, fun and enough to keep me awake, THAT'S great 👍 Song makes me have a happy heart thinking about the grandchild (girl 17 months). Sent song to mom, hope she lets her hear it !

[@Trombonology]

I've never been nuts about this tune, but I do see it as representative of the transition that occurred in pop in '34, with the Crooner Era of the early Great Depression dying down and the Swing Era soon to arise in '35. Neither the song nor this histrionic performance swings, but by '34 pop does seem to have become generally more upbeat, with more peppy treatments of songs on the well-worn topic of love appearing.

[@CPorter]

It seems the histrionics on songs like these often are responses to everyone performing the song, so to the listeners of 1934, Sam Robbins is bringing something new to the table, or otherwise making fun of overzealously played song. Might also be a response to contractual obligation. Sounds to me like a song plugger got to the ork! Side note, I'm glad the Hotel McAlpin had so many orchestras such as these going through their doors and into their studios. Golden, Robbins, Messner, etc. Quite a history there. They had WMCA on their upper stories too.

[@fromthesidelines]

Supervised by Eli Oberstein.

[@georgedabrowski6900]

The concept is 100X the end result. Another non- Standard, to put it mildly... 🔵👹🐸🦖🫏 But, thanks for putting it on KZbin.