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Written by Arthur Freed
Music by Nacio Herb Brown (1929).
In
addition to "Pagan Love Song", lyricist and movie producer Arthur
Freed also wrote "Singin' in the Rain," scored the 1929 film "Broadway
Melody" and produced many successful movie musicals including "The
Wizard of Oz". Freed is also a member of the Songwriter's Hall of
Fame.
MGM made the movie "Pagan Love Song"
in 1950 featuring Esther Williams and Howard Keel. It tells the story of
a beautiful half-American, half-Tahitian woman
who is bored with her island life and ready to head for the U.S.A. When the
handsome new owner of a run-down plantation shows up to claim his land,
however, she decides to stay.
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- Where the golden sunbeams
- And the lazy land dreams
- All the happy years thru
- You'll belong to me and I to you
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- Come with me where moonbeams
- Light Tahitian skies
- And the starlit waters
- Linger in you eyes
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- Native hills are calling
- To them we belong
- And we'll cheer each other
- With the pagan love song
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Written
by Jo Ann Castle (1968).
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Based
on the Hawaiian folksong "Popu o Ewa" and popularized by Burl Ives
in 1964.
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Pearly shells
from the ocean,
shinning in the
sun, covering the shore.
When I see them,
my heart tells me that I love you,
more than all the
little pearly shells.
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For every grain
of sand upon the beach,
I've got a kiss
for you,
and I've got more
left over
for each star
that twinkles in the blue.
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 Words
and Music by Cy Coben (1949).
Coben's song became
a big hit throughout the 1950s and 1960s, covered by Hoagy Carmichael, Eddie
Cantor, Frankie Carle, Liberace, J. Lawrence Cooke and Jo Ann Castle.
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I wanna hear it again, I wanna hear it again,
The Old Piano Roll Blues.
Sittin' at an upright, my sweetie and me,
We're pushin' on the pedals singin' sweet harmony.
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I wanna hear it again, the rinkety-tink,
We cuddle closer it seems.
We kiss a-kiss a-kiss a-kiss away all our cares,
The player piano plays that good old razz-a-ma-tazz.
I wanna hear it again, I wanna hear it again,
The Old Piano Roll Blues
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Written
by Pinetop Smith (1928).
Often considered to
be the founder of the boogie woogie style of piano playing, Pine Top Smith was
actually a vaudeville performer. From his mid-teens, Smith toured tent shows
and theatres as a pianist and dancer. His small list of recordings also
included blues but his fame rests, more than anything, on his recording of
Pine Top's Boogie Woogie in 1928. This song represents, possibly, the first
documented use of the term. His promising career was cut short when he was
accidentally shot by a man named David Bell during a skirmish in a dance hall
in Chicago. He was 25 and left a wife and two children.
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Words
and Music by Al Dexter (1943).
Country singer Al
Dexter wrote and then sang this song to the top of the pop charts in the
summer of 1943. Bing and the Andrews Sisters recorded the song Sept. 27, 1943,
and proved there were still a few bullets left in Ma's pistol. Their version
landed for 4 weeks in the No. 2 position of the pop charts and sold more than
a million copies, earning Bing yet another gold record.
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Lay that pistol down, Babe. Lay that pistol down. Pistol
packin mama Lay that pistol down.
Oh, drinkin beer in a cabaret Was I havin fun! Until one
night she caught me right And now I'm on the run.
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Oh, lay that pistol down, Babe. Lay that pistol down. Pistol
packin mama Lay that pistol down.
Oh, I'll sing you every night Bing And I'll woo you every
day. I'll be your regular mama And I'll put that gun away.
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