Roarin' 20s: S'Wonderful (Gershwin) - Ipana Troubadours, 1927 video free download


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Uploaded: 2014/05/13

S'Wonderful -- Fox Trot from "Funny Face" (Ira and George Gershwin) -- Ipana Troubadours (Sam Lanin's Land) with Vocal Chorus by Harold Lambert, Columbia 1928 (USA)

NOTE: Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by bis brother Ira. It was based on book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith. The plot is a sort of "Pygmalion story" done up to date for the jazz age. In the show, a fashion photographer transforms a bookstore employee into a model and they fall in love. When "Funny Face" opened on Broadway on November 22, 1927, as the very first show on the newly built Alvin Theatre, it starred Fred Astaire and his sister Adele . It was in this show that Fred Astaire first danced in evening clothes and a top hat. Originally called Smarty, it first opened in Philadelphia on October 11, 1927 to poor reviews. After the changes, the musical moved to Washington D.C., than to Atlantic City and to Wilmington, before reaching Broadway and the Alvin Theatre, now renamed Funny Face. It became a major Broadway hit, and after 244 performances, the whole company transferred it to London, continuing its successful tour.

Comments

9 years ago

1920sbuff

Lanin's arrangements were always so sparkling and uplifting!

9 years ago

240252

To Cynthia Strasse and Muana:I am sorry but I can't answer your posts!!! You must have sent them from some external server and therefore You Tube has disabled the answering option for the host, as it seems. Thank you for your posts!

9 years ago

barbcard

Wonderful photo of those wonderful brothers with their elegant pipes. And Astaire, too, smoked a sexy pipe...

9 years ago

Janette Walker

Really S"Wonderful - Just love this in most versions - this one is great.

9 years ago

tango3721

Hello Grzegorz and all the lovely "clickers" - this vid is awesome - Fred Astair - one of the dancing screen legends - my idol - multitalented performer - a great Tango dancer. Gershwin - of course - did wonders in his short life. Your artwork dazzles but Scrappy Lambert does great vocals and instrumental arrangement. Thanks for this beauty - and sending all of us tons of hugs with the wishes for a great, new week - from hot and humid vicinity of New York City - thank God for airconditioning and the cooler weather tomorrow!

9 years ago

Trombonology Erstwhile

The title says it all, doesn't it? -- impossible to improve on the Gershwin pedigree! Scrappy does a fine job with this one, being careful to get all the s's to blend with wonderful, etc. I once read that Ira Gershwin hated it when a singer would throw in the occasional "It's wonderful" in the song, thereby lousing up the whole lyrical premise on which it was built.. And who can blame him? ... No one looked better in evening clothes than Fred Astaire!

9 years ago

genia106

S'WONDERFUL!LOVE this song, I am twirling around the room. :-)Loved those dueling piano Gershwin brothers too. :-)Scrappy is always Scrumptious!Great visual.....the other day I was watching a show, "Secrets of Chatsworth", the seat of the Duke of Devonshire. It seems in the 1930s Adele was more famous and popular than her brother, she married Charles Cavendish, the second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire. "Chatsworth" was the location for Pemberly in the latest Pride and Prejudice film. (Just a bit of Trivia) :-))) I am a great fan of Jane Austen.Millions of STARSMerci.

9 years ago

Cynthia Strasse

May the 13th, 2014:) Oh, like many I , truly love George & Ira Gershwin gifts in music.Unsurpassable of their period. Tru black roots musical observers. Once, Ravel asked George if he would rather be a second rate Ravel or a first rate Gershwin. The answer is in his music. What an influence from then on 'till our very day. BTW "Summertime" along with "O Sole Mio" were the two very first songs I recall having listened to, while I awakened into my early dawning in mind awareness of this world.I THANK THEE SIR ° NAMASTE

9 years ago

muana13

I like Gershwin.....ThanksHave a good nightMuana

9 years ago

lonahable

A WONDERFUL RENDITION of a well-known Gershwin song. Thanks for posting it :)

9 years ago

brenter55

fabulous thanks for posting

9 years ago

Oceanborn Pacific

comme toujours des vidéos merveilleuses et des mélodies enthousiasmantes, merci beaucoup

9 years ago

dick12235

Thanks: 5/13/14.

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