Recurring songs

[JohnM]

The song quoted in my signature (Blues in the Night) was sung absent-mindedly by Rochester and Jack over the course of many shows in the early 40s when the song was popular. I noticed several versions were hits during that time - can anyone recommend a "definitive" version"?

There's another one a couple of years later, and I can't find the shows it's in. It goes something like "Choo choo / choo choo baby / your papa ....something something" - often an ad libbed gag. Maybe it's "coo coo" rather than "choo". I'm going crazy trying to remember the actual words. Can anyone identify the song?

[JohnM]

Oops - that must be it.


SHOO-SHOO BABY
The Andrews Sisters
- words and music by Phil Moore
- from the Universal Picture "Three Cheers For The Boys"
- lyrics as recorded in Los Angeles October 5, 1943 by The Andrews Sisters
with Mitch Ayres & His Orchestra

You've seen him up and down the avenue
And now he's wearin' the navy blue
She had a tear in the corner of her eye
As he said his last goodbye

Shoo, shoo, shoo baby
Shoo, shoo, shoo baby
Bye, bye, bye baby
Do-dah do-day
Your papa's off to the seven seas

Don't cry baby
Don't sigh baby
Bye, bye, bye baby
Do-dah do-day
When I come back we'll live a life of ease

Seems kinda tough now
To say goodbye this way
But papa's gotta be rough now
So that he can be sweet to you another day

Bye, bye, bye baby
Don't cry baby
Shoo, shoo, shoo baby
Do-dah do-day
Your papa's off to the seven seas

(Shhh-shoo baby) Do-dah do-day
(Shhh-shoo baby) Do-dah do-day
(Shhh-shoo baby, shoo, shoo)
QUIET!!
I want a little bit o' quiet in the house, please
(She wants a little bit of quiet in the house)
So your papa's on his way to cross the seven seas
So don't you cry, oh, don't you sigh goodbye now
Shoo, shoo baby Shooo-oo-oo
Shoo, shoo my baby Shoooo
Goodbye baby, don't you cry no more
Your big tall papa's off to the seven seas

Seems kinda tough now
To say goodbye this way
But papa's gotta be rough now
So that he can be sweet to you another day

Shhhh baby, shhhh baby
Shoo, shoo, shoo baby
Goodbye, goodbye
Your papa's off to the seven seas, the seven seas
Your big tall papa's off to the seven seas


Still interested in opinions on Blues in the Night versions.

[Yhtapmys]

The song quoted in my signature (Blues in the Night) was sung absent-mindedly by Rochester and Jack over the course of many shows in the early 40s when the song was popular. I noticed several versions were hits during that time - can anyone recommend a "definitive" version"?

Porky Pig did a version, but I don't know how definitive it is.

Here's Cab Calloway's rendition. Cab updated his sound for the 40s.
http://www.group-harmony.com/Blues_In.ram

Here's an odd, medium-up tempo version from 1946:
http://www.group-harmony.com/BluesIn2.ram

Yhtapmys
"Drive Your Blues [in the night] Away!"

[Yhtapmys]

Disregard this post. I can't figure out how to delete it.
Yht.

[Brad from Georgia]

Another that turned up quite a log was "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen."

[CBSTelevisionCity]

Here's the coming attractions trailer for Warner Bros. 1941 B-flick "Blues In The Night", which featured Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra. I think I read somewhere that Glenn Miller himself considered Lunceford's "Blues In The Night" the best version he'd heard. Of course, the Leo Forbstein-directed Warner Orchestra here sounds pretty good, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJcFUl2ttqU


I believe Dinah Shore had the biggest pop hit record of "Blues In The Night". The original Bluebird record labels identified it as a "VOCADANCE" - !
Here she is on early color videotape, about 20 years after she made the original record.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqoJxjQn-Y


- William Carroll, Denham Springs, Louisiana

[TheSportsmenQuartet]

I prefer Johnny Mercer's version of "Blue in the Night". It probably helped that he wrote the lyrics as well

[scottp]

Maybe it was the Johnny Mercer version that I heard in a "blooper" many times-- the song was playing on KMPC in LA in the 1970s I suppose, when the sports guy hit a wrong button and the "bootleg" commercial he was recording went out over the air--
"Brought to you by Soutar's in Barstow, your high desert Chrysler Plymouth dealer..."
(That was for him to use on his own little station in the desert.)

Anyway...

[DerekVOF]

I'll second the Cab Calloway version - I think it's perfect.

Sinatra also did a version, but it feels too slow... Guess I got used to Rochester's version