{"id":1603,"date":"2024-06-23T18:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T23:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2024-06-23T18:18:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T23:18:54","slug":"paul-whiteman-and-his-orchestra-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2024\/06\/23\/paul-whiteman-and-his-orchestra-1934\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra – 1934"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I Get A Kick Out Of You”
\nPaul Whiteman And His Orchestra; Ramona, vocal
\n(Victor 24769-B)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 October 26, 1934<\/p>\n

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“You’re The Top”
\nPaul Whiteman And His Orchestra; Johnny Hauser, Peggy Healy, vocal
\n(Victor 24769-A)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 October 26, 1934<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Paul-Whiteman-And-His-Orchestra-Youre-The-Top.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Here are 1934 versions by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra<\/a> of two songs from the musical production Anything Goes<\/em><\/a>, which are still performed and well-known.<\/p>\n

Anything Goes<\/em> made its Broadway debut on November 21, 1934, and closed just under a year later after 420 performances.\u00a0 \u00a0Since that time, it has enjoyed many revivals and countless local and regional performances.\u00a0 Cole Porter<\/a> wrote both the music and the lyrics.<\/p>\n

When Paramount Pictures made a film version of the musical in 1936, one of the lines in the song “I Get A Kick Out Of You,” “Some get a kick from cocaine..<\/em>.”\u00a0 was regarded as too scandalous for the censors of the era’s strict Motion Picture Code<\/a> and was thus changed in the film to “Some like the perfume from Spain….<\/em>“<\/span><\/p>\n

These recordings by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra were made about a month before the show’s Broadway debut and this was one of the top-selling records of the song.<\/p>\n

Radio Dismuke’s playlist features a few other versions of both songs. Among them are recordings issued on a 1934 Bluebird 78 rpm record by George Hall<\/a> and his Hotel Taft<\/a> Orchestra with vocals by Loretta Lee<\/a> and Sonny Schuyler<\/a> that I personally consider to be the best recordings of both songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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