The Yearly GELT's TOP 1932

Jeanette MacDonald & Maurice Chevalier
 in Rouben Mamoulian's  Love Me Tonight
Song of the year :  Brother Can You Spare A Dime



Music: Jay Gorney / Lyrics:"Yip" Harburg)

With lyrics pointing at the politicians, their false promises and inability to cope with the Depression that plunged millions of Americans into poverty, this song was especially a moving tribute to the glory of all ordinary workers struck by joblessness. " Yip " Harburg, who wrote the song was himself managing an important company before going bankrupt in 1929 and finding unemployed. He owed to George Gershwin his partnership with composer Jay Gorney. Rudy Vallee and Bing Crosby recorded their own rendition nearly at the same moment. That of Bing Crosby remains better known but without removing anything from its qualities, it's maybe Rudy Vallee who, through an effectual musical arrangement, creates a dramatic progression best expressing the emotional content and despair conveyed by the song.


 RK
 Artist
 Title
 CT
VIDEO 
 1 
 The Dorsey Brothers
 I'm Getting Sentimental  Over You feat. Jean Bowes
 (Ned Washington/Geore Bassam)

 2
 Louis Armstrong
 All Of Me
 (Gerald Marks/Simon Seymour)
 3
 Cab Calloway
 Reefer Man
 (Andy Razaf/J. Russel Robinson)
 4 
 Duke Ellington
 It Don't Mean A Thing (If  It Ain't Got That  Swing) feat. Ivie  Anderson
 (Duke Ellington/Irving Mills)
 5 
 Bing Crosby
 Some Of These Days
 (Shelton Brooks)
 
 The Boswell Sisters with The  Dorsey Brothers
 Louisiana Hayride
 (Arthur Scwartz/Howard Dietz)
 7 
 Don Redman
 Doin' The New Low-  Down feat Bill "Bojangles"  Robinson
 (Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh)
 
 Leo Reisman
 Night And Day feat. Fred  Astaire
 (Cole Porter)
 9 
 Annette Hanshaw
 Fit As A Fiddle
 (Al Hoffman/Al Goodhart/Arthur  Freed)
 10 
 Buddy Rogers
 With My Sweetie In The  Moonlight feat. Louis Rapp
 11
 Earl Hines & His Orchestra
 I Love You Because I  Love You
 (Al Goodhart/Al Hoffman/Don  Murray)
 12 
 Cab Calloway
 Dixie Doorway
 (Frank Perkins/Michell Parish)
 13 
 Rudy Vallee
 Brother, Can You Spare A  Dime
 (Jay Gorney/"Yip" Harburg)
 14 
 Ray Noble & The New  Mayfair Dance Orchestra
 Where Are You (Girl Of My  Dream) feat. Al Bowlly &  Anona Winn
 (Charles Tobias)

 15 
 Connee Boswell
 Say It Isn't So
 (Irving Berlin)
 16
 Louis Armstrong
 Kickin' The Gong Around
 (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
 17
 Bennie Moten & His  Orchestra
 Two Times feat. Josephine  Garrison
 (Sauberg)
 18 
 Bing Crosby
 Lazy Day
 (Eric Maschwitz/George  Posford/Grace Kahn/Gus Kahn)
 19
 Ozzie Nelson
 It's Gonna Be You feat.  Harriet Hilliard
 (Irving Berlin)
 20
 The Dorsey Brothers
 Me Minus You feat.  Connee  Boswell
 (Abel Baer/Paul Francis Webster)
 21 
 Ted Weems
 Look Who's Here feat.  Parker Gibbs
 (Burton Lane, Harold Adamson)
 22
 The Washboard Rhythm  Kings
 Was It The Human Thing  To Do
 (Victor Young/Sammy Fain)
 23
 Cab Calloway
 Minnie The Moocher's  Wedding Day
 (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
 24
 Bing Crosby
 Street Of Dreams
 (Sam M. Lewis/Victor Young)
 25 
 The Boswell Sisters with The  Dorsey Brothers
 Charlie Two-step
 (Hoagy Carmichael)
 26 
 Jack Teagarden
 I Gotta Right To Sing The  Blues
 (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
 27 
 Fletcher Henderson
 Say That You Were  Teasing Me feat. Baby  Rose Marie
 (Allan Flynn)
 28
 Billy Banks & The  Rhythmakers
 Who's Sorry Now
 (Bert Kalmar/Harry Ruby/Ted  Snyder)
 29
 Carol Gibbons & The Savoy Orphan Orchestra  
 Goopy Geer feat. Al  Bowlly
 (Herman Upfield)

 30 
 Bing Crosby
 Brother , Can You Spare A  Dime
 (Jay Gorney/"Yip" Harburg)
 31
 Louis Armstrong
 Love You, Funny Thing
 (Fred Ahlert/Roy Turk)
 32
 The Boswell Sisters
 Stop The Sun, Stop The  Moon
 (Russel Robinson)
 33
 Phil Spitalny
 Let's Have Another Cup Of  Coffee feat. Helen  Rowland
 (Irving Berlin)
 34
 Ted Lewis & His  Orchestra
 Headin' For Better Times
 (Charles Tobias)
 35
 Jimmie Rodgers
 Miss The Mississippi And  You
 (Jimmy Rodgers)
 36 
 Bing Crosby & The Boswell  Sisters
 Lawd, You Made The  Night Too Long
 (Sam M. Lewis/Isham Jone
 37 
  Midred Bailey & Paul Whiteman's Orchstra
 Rockin' Chair
 (Hoagy Carmichael)
 38 
 Roger Wolfe Kahn & His  Orchestra
 My Silent Love feat. Elmer  Feldkamp
 (Dana Suesse/Edward Heyman)
 39
 Bing Crosby
 Please
 (Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger)
 40
 Paul Whiteman
 Willow Weep For Me feat.  Irene Taylor
 (Ann Ronell)



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