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| 1940 | ||
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From
"YOUNG PEOPLE"
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Harry's first job at Fox turned out to be Shirley Temple's swan song for the studio. His lyricist was Mack Gordon. | |
| -I Wouldn't Take A Million | ||
| -Young People | ||
| -On Fifth Avenue | ||
| -Tra-La-La | ||
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From "TIN PAN ALLEY" |
This was the first of six pictures that Alice Faye starred in using Harry's music. She co-stars with Betty Grable as singing sisters. "You Say The Sweetest Things, Baby" was an instant hit and remains Alice Faye's favorite song. | |
| -You Say The Sweetest Things, Baby | ||
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From
"DOWN ARGENTINE WAY"
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Down Argentine Way began the cycle of Hollywood's wartime musicals. To compensate from the loss of revenue from Europe, producers turned their attention to LAtin America. Carmen Miranda makes film debut, and this film makes Bette Grable a star. | |
| -Two Dreams Met | ||
| -Nenita | ||
| -Sing To Your Senorita | ||
-Down
Argentine Way  |
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| 1941 | ||
| From "THE GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST" |
The
Great American Broadcast contains six Warren/Gordon songs in a fairly good
yarn about the early days of radio. The songs fit the picture beautifully,
and the catchiest tune is "I Take To You" *Alice Faye, John Payne, Cesar Romero, Jack Oakie |
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| -It's All In A Lifetime | ||
| -The Great American Broadcast | ||
| -I've Got A Bone To Pick With You | ||
| -Long Ago Last Night | ||
| -I Take To You | ||
| -Where You Are | ||
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From
"SUN VALLEY SERENADE"
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Darryl
Zanuck hired Glenn Miller and his Orchestra to perform and two of the Warren/Gordon
songs "I Know Why (And So Do You)" and "Chattanooga Choo-Choo"
became smash hits. Chattanooga Choo-Choo was nominated for an oscar. Dorothy
Dandridge and the Mills Brothers have a spectacular singing/dancing/tapping
sequence to Chattanooga Choo-Choo *Sonja Henie, John Payne, Lynn Bari |
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| -The Kiss Polka | ||
| -It Happened In Sun Valley | ||
| -I Know Why (And So Do You) | ||
| -Chattanooga
Choo-Choo |
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From
"WEEKEND IN HAVANA"
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*Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, John Payne, Cesar Romero | |
| -A Weekend In Havana | ||
| -When I Love, I Love | ||
| -The Nango | ||
| -The Man With The Lollipop Song | ||
| -Tropical Magic | ||
| From "THAT NIGHT IN RIO" | Spawned
from the success of Down Argentine Way, That Night in Rio quickly followed.
Harry's fascination with Brazilian rythms was the basis for these melodies,
and these are the songs that made Carmen Miranda a star. "Chica Chica
Boom Chic" and "I Yi Yi Yi (I Like you Very Much)" were huge
hits for Miranda as she rolled her eyes and hips, emitting her special brand
of magic. *Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche |
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| -They Met In Rio | ||
| -I Yi Yi Yi (I Like you Very Much) | ||
| -Chica Chica Boom Chic | ||
| -Boa Noite | ||
| -The Baron's In Conference | ||
| 1942 | ||
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From
"ICELAND"
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"You
Can't Say No To A Soldier" remains to this day a highly collected period
song, but the song that truly shines in this film is "There Will Never
Be Another You". The melody, built on long rising and falling intervals,
is one of the loveliest Harry ever wrote. *Sonja Henie, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Joan Merrill |
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| -You Can't Say No To A Soldier | ||
| -Let's Bring New Glory To Old Glory | ||
| -There Will Never Be Another You | ||
| -It's The Lovers Knot | ||
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From
"SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES"
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The
hit song from this movie was "I Had The Craziest Dream" and became
one of the most popular songs of the war years. Betty Grable's carrer took
off like a rocket and became "The Pin-up Girl" of American soldiers
everywhere. *Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, John Payne, Cesar Romero, Harry james and his orchestra |
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| -I Had The Craziest Dream | ||
| -Pan American Jubilee | ||
| -A Poem Set To Music | ||
| -Run, Little Raindrop, Run | ||
| -I Like To Be Loved By You | ||
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From "ORCHESTRA WIVES"
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Orchestra
Wives is one of very few movies that gives insight to the lives of band
musicians on tour. Here, Glenn Miller makes his second,and last film appearance
with his 22 piece orchestra making the rounds in endless dance halls. George
Montgomery, Jackie Gleason, and Cesar Romero are in the band. "People
Like You And Me" became instantly popular, "Serenade in Blue"
has become a standard, and "At Last" is one of the most beautiful
love ballads Harry ever wrote (currently starring in Jaguar commercials
on tv) "I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo" won Harry his sixth Oscar nomination. |
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| -At Last | ||
| -Serenade In Blue | ||
| -That's Sabatoge | ||
| -People Like You And Me | ||
| -I've
Got A Gal In Kalamazoo |
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| 1943 | ||
| From "THE GANG'S ALL HERE" | Alice
Faye's last movie and Harry's biggest score at Fox (eleven songs written
and three dropped). Harry's lyricist was Leo Robin. It was Busby Berkely's
first film in color and his best job as a director. The films two best songs are "No Love' No Nothin' and "A Journey To A Star" both sung by Alice Faye. Berkely's pairing with Carmen Miranda lends itself to a frenzy from every camera angle on "You Discover You're In New York" and especially "The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat" where hordes of plantation girls dance with oversized bananas on a tropical fruit plantation. This routine was cut from many prints as it was seen as vulgar. *Alice Faye, James Ellison, Sheila Ryan, Tony DeMarco, Benny Goodman and his band |
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| -The Polka Dot Polka | ||
| -You Discover You're In New York | ||
| -The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat | ||
| -Minnie's In The Money | ||
| -A Journey To A Star | ||
| -Paducah | ||
| -No Love' No Nothin' | ||
| -Carnival | ||
| From "SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY" | Betty Grable in a period film, New York in the 1880's. The film's most popular song is "My Heart Tells Me" which Grable sings while in the bathtub. | |
| -My Heart Tells Me | ||
| -My Sam | ||
| -The Wishing Waltz | ||
| -Get Your Police Gazette | ||
| -Going To The Country Fair | ||
| -Where, Oh Where, Is The Groom | ||
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From
"HELLO, FRISCO, HELLO"
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Alice
Faye returns to the big screen after a two year "retirement".
"You'll Never Know" was
instantly popular and became an anthem of the second world war. It won an
Oscar as best song of the year and appeared at the top of "Your Hit
Parade" for months. It also became Harry's biggest success in terms of sheet music sales, with over a million copies sold. |
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-You'll
Never Know  |
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| 1945 | ||
| From "BILLY ROSE'S DIAMOND HORSESHOE' |
Harry had already signed a contact by this time with MGM but came back to FOX when Billy Rose and Betty Grable asked him to do this movie. The big ballad of this picture is "The More I See You" and the Dick Haymes recording became a smash hit in 1945. Another notable song from the film is "I Wish I Knew" sung by Betty Grable. | |
| -I Wish I Knew | ||
| -In Alcapulco | ||
| -Mink Lament | ||
| -The More I See You | ||
| -Nickels Worth Of Jive | ||
| -Play Me An Old Fashioned Melody | ||
| 1946 | ||
| From "THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE" | Harry's last work at Fox, Mack Gordon was given the go ahead by Darryl Zanuck to produce a musical starring Vera-Ellen, Vivian Blaine, and June Haver. The score was written by Joseph Myrow, but for sentimental reasons Gordon asked Harry to write a couple songs for the film. "This Is Always" became the films hit song. | |
| -This Is Always | ||
| -Me And The Blues | ||
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