Waltzing in a Dream
Frederick S. Manning (cover photograph) New York: Olman Music Corporation, 1932. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Sheet Music. Format is approximately 9.125 inches by 12 inches. Four pages (Front cover, interior two pages music and lyrics, back cover has partial music and lyrics of two other songs--Just Because Your're You by Cliff Friend and It Used to Be Me by Charles O'Flynn, Howard Phillips and Pete Wendling). Illustrated front cover which has a large photograph of Bing Crosby. Cover has crease, wear and soiling. The cover photograph appears to be by Frederick S. Manning. Pencil notation at top of page 2. Large box with a copyright infringement warning at the bottom of page 3. Ink notation at top of back cover. "Waltzing in a Dream" is a 1932 song recorded by Bing Crosby. Bing Crosby recorded the song in Chicago on April 23, 1932 with Isham Jones and his Orchestra and it was released as a Brunswick 78 single. The recording reached no. 6 on the pop singles chart in the U.S., with a chart run of eleven weeks. Guy Lombardo also enjoyed chart success with the song in 1932. Other recordings were by Enric Madriguera for Columbia Records (catalog No. 2735D), and by Ray Noble who recorded the song in London for HMV with a vocal by Al Bowlly. Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. He was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture grosses from 1926 to 1977. He was one of the first global cultural icons. He made over 70 feature films and recorded more than 1,600 songs. His early career coincided with recording innovations that allowed him to develop an intimate singing style that influenced many male singers who followed, such as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Dick Haymes, Elvis Presley, and John Lennon. Yank magazine said that he was "the person who had done the most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. In 1948, Music Digest estimated that his recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music in America. Crosby won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Going My Way (1944) and was nominated for its sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), opposite Ingrid Bergman, becoming the first of six actors to be nominated twice for playing the same character. He was the number one box office attraction for five consecutive years, 1944 to 1948. Ned Washington (born Edward Michael Washington, August 15, 1901 – December 20, 1976) was an American lyricist. Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962. He won the Best Original Song award twice: in 1940 for "When You Wish Upon a Star" in Pinocchio and in 1952 for "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" in High Noon. He collaborated with many of the great composers of the era, including Hoagy Carmichael, Victor Young, Max Steiner, and Dimitri Tiomkin. Albert Victor Young (August 8, 1899– November 10, 1956) was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. In 1930, Chicago bandleader and radio-star Isham Jones commissioned Young to write a ballad instrumental of Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust", which had been played, up until then, as an up-tempo number. Young slowed it down and played the melody as a gorgeous romantic violin solo which inspired Mitchell Parish to write lyrics for what then became a much-performed love song. Bing Crosby recorded it at least three times: in 1931, 1939, and 1942. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Song, Sheet Music, Bing Crosby, Frederick Manning, Romance, Swaying, Dance, Sweetheart, Kisses, Cliff Friend, Charles O'Flynn, Howard Phillips, Pete Wendling, Lyrics, Composers
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