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Durelle Alexander (vocal) with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. Recorded in New York City, Studio 2 on March 13th 1936.
The song was written by Richard Rogers (music) and Lorenz Hart (lyrics) for the Broadway musical production "On Your Toes", which premiered on April 11th 1936 in the Imperial Theatre in New York City. The song soon became very popular with other notable recordings by Hal Kemp (1936), Benny Goodman (1936), Josephine Baker (1937), Stan Getz (1950), Chet Baker (1956), Ella Fitzgerald (1956), Frank Sinatra (1957), Petula Clark (1959) and many more.
In the video you see Durelle Alexander on the front page of the "Radio Guide" from September 12th 1936.
"Durelle Alexander (March 30, 1918 - May 21, 1994) was a child performer who appeared in "Hollywood Junior Follies" and several silent "Our Gang" comedies throughout the 1920s. As an adult, she had a singing career with several big bands on radio and on tour.
Alexander was born Frances Durelle Alexander in Greenville, Texas. In 1924 at the age of 6, she went with her mother to Hollywood, CA, and made appearances in several silent 'Our Gang' comedies and "Hollywood Junior Follies". She made her stage debut at age 3. A few years later, when she was 12, she moved with her mother to New York City and began singing with orchestras. By the age of 14, she signed a contract with Paul Whiteman.
By 1935, Alexander was appearing as a featured vocalist on Whiteman's radio show Paul Whiteman's Musical Varieties and Kraft Music Hall on NBC. Throughout this period, she would appear in several Radio Guide magazine articles. By September 1936, she made the cover. She later toured with the prominent big bands of Paul Whiteman, Eddy Duchin, Smith Ballew, and Archie Bleyer. The first known recording with Alexander singing was "Animal Crackers In My Soup" with Smith Ballew and his Orchestra, recorded in July 1935. In 1936, she toured with Paul Whiteman in Billy Roses' Annual Texas Centennial."
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"Paul Whiteman (born March 28, 1890, Denver, Colorado, U.S.-died December 29, 1967, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.) was an American bandleader, called the “King of Jazz” for popularizing a musical style that helped to introduce jazz to mainstream audiences during the 1920s and 1930s."
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This VICTOR record is played on an Electrola table top Gramophone, model 130 from ca. 1930!