"They Does not Believe Me" is a song with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Herbert Reynolds.
First introduced in 1914 the music of The Girl from Utah was one of five figures added to the show by Kern and Reynolds for the Broadway debut at the Knickerbocker Theater on August 14, 1914. The show originated in England , but impresario Charles Frohman feels the need for additional material to enliven the US run. This became Kern's first successful main song.
The song, with four taps to a bar, departs from the traditional rhythms of European influence and fits with the new American passion for modern dance like fox-ran. Kern can also use elements of American style, such as ragtime, and syncopation, in melodious songs. This song is also amazing in the use of 'everyday' language in love songs. The theater historian John Kenrick writes that, up to this point, the majority of love songs rely on the vocabulary of flowers to express romantic sentiments. The song put Kern in great demand on Broadway and formed a pattern for musical comedy love songs that lasted until the 1960s.
"They Does not Believe Me" became the standard, featured in 1949's MGM music That Midnight Kiss where he was sung as duet by Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson. (It has been used in films in the early 1930s, sung by Corinne Griffith at Back Back.) The artists who have recorded it include Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, George Sanders, Dinah Washington, Jeanette MacDonald, Johnny Mercer, Charlie Parker, Elvis Costello, Stan Kenton, Bill Frisell, Bud Powell, Harry Belafonte, Leontyne Price and Marian McPartland.
The arrival time of the song (the outbreak of World War I) meant that it was one of the many songs adapted by the soldiers in the trenches-on this occasion, an irony taken from a life suspected to be 'easy' in the trenches. It's shown in that form (titled "We Will not Tell Them") at the end of Richard Attenborough's 1969 movie Oh! What a Beautiful War .
Video They Didn't Believe Me
Recordable records
- George Grossmith Jr. & amp; Haidee De Rance June 8, 1915 (HMV 04129)
- Jack Morrison August 1915 (Columbia 2593)
- Sam Ash February 1916 (Little Wonder 321)
- Grace Kerns & amp; Reed Miller March 18, 1916 (Columbia A 1982)
- Kathryn Grayson December 16, 1947 (MGM 30210) Recorded shortly before the 1948 record ban and was not released until 1949.
- Mario Lanza August 23, 1949
- Steve Rochinski - Bird in Hand (1999)
Maps They Didn't Believe Me
References
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