Background
Gustav Gerson Kahn was born on November 6, 1886 in Coblenz, Germany, to Jewish parents, Isaac and Theresa (Mayer) Kahn. His father, a cattle dealer, came to the United States when Gus was five and settled in Chicago.
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William Bolcom (piano & vocals), Joan Morris (mezzo-soprano), Max Morath (vocals & piano) and Robert White (tenor) sing the works of lyricist Gus Kahn (1886-1941). Recorded live at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York, 2004. Songs from Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley, 1915-1941! 24 Tracks total: 1. Love Me Or Leave Me 2. My Baby Just Cares For Me 3. My Buddy 4. I'm Thru With Love 5. Day Dreaming 6. Nobody's Sweetheart 7. Carolina In The Morning 8. Memories 9. San Francisco 10. Dream A Little Dream Of Me 11. Coquette 12. Tomorrow Is A Lovely Day 13. Guilty 14. Makin' Whoopee 15. Liza 16. It Had To Be You/Pretty Baby 17. Your Eyes Have Told Me So 18. Sometime 19. The One I Love 20. You Stepped Out Of A Dream 21. I Must Be Home By 12 O'Clock 22. I'll See You In My Dreams 23. Toot Toot Tootsie/Yes Sir That's My Baby 24. Ain't We Got Fun?
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She asks for a ride. He obliges, ever the gentleman despite being a nervous hypochondriac come west to Arizona to take a cure. Now everyone thinks they’ve eloped, and a passel of angry folks is in pursuit! As the health worrywart, irrepressible Eddie Cantor is in a hilarious fix all the way up to his famed banjo eyes in this adaptation of his Broadway smash that’s the first of Cantor’s highly successful partnerships with producer Samuel Goldwyn. The songs include the ribald “Makin’ Whoopee” and “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” the dance sequences are staged with pizzazz by first-timer Busby Berkeley, the leggy Goldwyn Girl chorines include young Betty Grable, and the photography is a then-rare Technicolor® -- all perfectly paired with Cantor’s exuberance and warmth. Some of the film’s attitudes and insensitivities are reflective of its time, but there’s much for classics fans to enjoy again and again in Whoopee! This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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Gustav Gerson Kahn was born on November 6, 1886 in Coblenz, Germany, to Jewish parents, Isaac and Theresa (Mayer) Kahn. His father, a cattle dealer, came to the United States when Gus was five and settled in Chicago.
Gustav attended public schools in Chicago.
When young, Kahn supported himself by working as clerk in a hotel-supply firm and in a mail-order house. By this time writing song lyrics had become his principal diversion. The first to be published, "I Wish I Had a Girl" (1907)--with music by Grace Le Boy, his chief early collaborator--was sufficiently successful to encourage him to concentrate on song writing and preparing special material for vaudevillians. A significant development in his career came when he teamed up with the composer Egbert Van Alstyne, with whom he wrote his first two substantial hits, "Memories" (1915) and the still popular "Pretty Baby" (1916), the melody of the latter written by Van Alstyne in collaboration with the ragtime pianist Tony Jackson. These were followed by such successes as "Sailing Away on the Henry Clay" (1917) and "Your Eyes Have Told Me So" (1919).
Though Kahn continued to live in Chicago, he became very much a part of the New York musical scene of the 1920's. He contributed lyrics to the music of numerous Broadway composers, most notably Walter Donaldson. The first Donaldson-Kahn songs, "My Buddy" and "Carolina in the Morning, " were both leading sellers in 1922. Others were "Beside a Babbling Brook" (1923), "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby" (1925), written for and popularized by Eddie Cantor, and "She's Wonderful" (1928). In 1928 the two wrote the score for Whoopee, a Broadway musical produced by Florenz Ziegfeld and starring Eddie Cantor, which introduced "Makin' Whoopee, " "My Baby Just Cares for Me, " and "Love Me or Leave Me. "
Another composer for whom Kahn wrote lyrics during the 1920's was Isham Jones, a collaboration that yielded "Swingin' Down the Lane" (1923) and, in 1924, "It Had to Be You, " "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, " and "I'll See You in My Dreams. " After 1933 Kahn worked chiefly in Hollywood. He contributed lyrics for many motion pictures to music by Walter Donaldson, Jimmy McHugh, Sigmund Romberg, and others. Among his screen musicals were two Eddie Cantor vehicles, Whoopee (1930) and Kid Millions (1934), and two Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald features, Naughty Marietta (1935) and Rose Marie (1936).
Besides, Gustav was responsible for the words to "Toot, Toot, Tootsie" (in collaboration with Ernie Erdman), which Al Jolson introduced in Bombo in 1922 and then made one of his specialties; "My Isle of Golden Dreams" (1919); "Ain't We Got Fun" (1921); "Nobody's Sweetheart" (1924); and "I Never Knew" (1925). His last song was also a hit: "You Stepped Out of a Dream, " which Tony Martin introduced in the motion picture The Ziegfeld Girl in 1940.
Kahn had an ear for youthful speech and sought (as he put it in 1927) to "express colloquially something that every young person has tried to say--and somehow can't". Basically he was a functional lyricist who sought simplicity and directness of expression without falling back on clichés. He never used a two-syllable or three-syllable word when a one-syllable word would do, and he avoided virtuosity of rhyming, unusual figures of speech, and esoteric allusions. The simplicity of his vocabulary and style, however, did not conceal a remarkable skill for shaping verses that lent themselves readily and gracefully to singable tunes.
(William Bolcom (piano & vocals), Joan Morris (mezzo-sopra...)
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On August 18, 1915, Kahn married Grace Le Boy. They had two children, Donald and Irene.