Deep in the Heart of Texas, from 1941, features lyrics by June Hershey and music by Don Swander. The song spent twelve weeks in total on the 1942 Hit Parade. It’s been featured in numerous films and television shows, including Texas Carnival and Deep in the Heart of Texas.
I’ve been working on the railroad lyrics – an American folk song, first published in 1894. The earliest known recording is by the Sandhills Sixteen, released by Victor Records in 1927. It’s been used in…
Red River Valley is a song of controversial origins that has gone by different names — for example, Cowboy Love Song, Bright Sherman Valley, Bright Laurel Valley, In the Bright Mohawk Valley, and Bright Little Valley among others. It has been performed in countless movies, including Texas Carnival
Performed in many movies, including DuBarry Was A Lady
W.C. FIELDS STRAIGHT UP is the definitive feature-length celebration of the movies’ best-loved curmudgeon. This Emmy Award-winning documentary traces Field’s life from his childhood in Philadelphia, through his years of Hollywood stardom, to his final days. Interviews with Fields’ closest friends, family and collaborators are interwoven with beautifully remastered clips from his best-loved films and his rarely seen screen appearances. The resulting film presents Fields as both a brilliant comedian and a troubled, stubborn, loner.
W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films – Criterion Collection – This is a collection of W. C. Fields’ short films, as follows:
When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along was a 1926 popular song written, both words and music, by Harry Woods. The most successful recording of 1926 was by Al Jolson.
The song became the signature song for singer and actress Lillian Roth, who performed it often during the height of her musical career from the late 1920s to the late 1930s. It was later performed by Susan Hayward, playing Roth, in the 1955 biographical film, I’ll Cry Tomorrow.
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob Bobbin’ Along
When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along, along
There’ll be no more sobbin’ when he starts throbbin’ his old sweet song
Brothers, sisters
Listen to what I say
Moanin’ and groanin’
Won’t drive those blues away
Lift up your voices in song
You know you’ve all done wrong
You sinners, drop everything
And let that harmony ring
Up to Heaven
And sing, you sinners
Susan Hayward has a signature role in I’ll Cry Tomorrow, a pedal-to-the-metal look at the troubled times of singer Lillian Roth. Hayward snagged her fourth Oscar nomination for the part, which takes Roth from humble beginnings through great stardom and finally into a hell of alcoholism and recovery. The movie delivers on a couple of tendencies of its era (1956): a fresh frankness about addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm had come out the year before), plus some handy psychoanalyzing of the heroine–in this case, Roth’s problems are laid at the feet of her pushy stage mother (Jo Van Fleet).
