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Me and My Shadow
"Me and My Shadow" is a 1927 popular song published by Irving Berlin Inc. Al Jolson, Billy Rose, and Dave Dreyer are credited as the writers, with Jolson and Dreyer listed on the sheet music as responsible for the music and Rose the lyrics. Jolson was often given credits on sheet music so he could earn more by popularizing the tunes, but he played no part in writing this song. Jolson never recorded "Shadow", but in 1927, he used it in the touring version of "Big Boy".
Popular recordings in 1927 were by "Whispering" Jack Smith, Nat Shilkret (vocal by Johnny Marvin) and the separate recording by Johnny Marvin for Columbia Records. The song became especially associated with Ted Lewis, who used it to close his act. "Shadow" has since become a standard, with many artists performing it.
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In a 1929 Vitaphone Varieties short, singer Zelda Santley impersonates Lewis while singing a rendition of the song mashed-up with When My Baby Smiles at Me.
In the movie Funny Lady, Billy Rose admits to wife Fanny Brice that the shadow in the song was Nicky Arnstein, Fanny's criminal husband before Rose though, in fact, the song was written in 1927, two years before Rose's marriage to Brice in 1929.
The song is performed in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits, for Napoleon. The dwarves perform it very badly and end up fighting. However, Napoleon is actually pleased, as he wants, for entertainment, "little things hitting each other".
The song was used in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, "The Great Petrie Fortune", in which Dick Van Dyke (playing his own uncle) sings the song on a home movie as part of his will. It referred to an old photograph he had had of himself as an infant, with a "shadow" that was actually Abraham Lincoln.
The song is performed in an episode of Maude, "Maude's Musical", (Season 2, Episode 10), by Beatrice Arthur and Esther Rolle as part of a charity show that Maude is putting together.
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Me and My Shadow
"Me and My Shadow" is a 1927 popular song published by Irving Berlin Inc. Al Jolson, Billy Rose, and Dave Dreyer are credited as the writers, with Jolson and Dreyer listed on the sheet music as responsible for the music and Rose the lyrics. Jolson was often given credits on sheet music so he could earn more by popularizing the tunes, but he played no part in writing this song. Jolson never recorded "Shadow", but in 1927, he used it in the touring version of "Big Boy".
Popular recordings in 1927 were by "Whispering" Jack Smith, Nat Shilkret (vocal by Johnny Marvin) and the separate recording by Johnny Marvin for Columbia Records. The song became especially associated with Ted Lewis, who used it to close his act. "Shadow" has since become a standard, with many artists performing it.
Source:
In a 1929 Vitaphone Varieties short, singer Zelda Santley impersonates Lewis while singing a rendition of the song mashed-up with When My Baby Smiles at Me.
In the movie Funny Lady, Billy Rose admits to wife Fanny Brice that the shadow in the song was Nicky Arnstein, Fanny's criminal husband before Rose though, in fact, the song was written in 1927, two years before Rose's marriage to Brice in 1929.
The song is performed in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits, for Napoleon. The dwarves perform it very badly and end up fighting. However, Napoleon is actually pleased, as he wants, for entertainment, "little things hitting each other".
The song was used in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, "The Great Petrie Fortune", in which Dick Van Dyke (playing his own uncle) sings the song on a home movie as part of his will. It referred to an old photograph he had had of himself as an infant, with a "shadow" that was actually Abraham Lincoln.
The song is performed in an episode of Maude, "Maude's Musical", (Season 2, Episode 10), by Beatrice Arthur and Esther Rolle as part of a charity show that Maude is putting together.
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