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Lyr ADD: Lazy River (Hoagy Carmichael)
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Lyr ADD: Lazy River (Hoagy Carmichael) Related threads: Lyr Req: Ole Buttermilk Sky (Hoagy Carmichael) (12) ADD/info: Baltimore Oriole (Hoagy Carmichael) (16) Hoagy Carmichael 100th Tribute (25) |
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Subject: LYRIC REQ: Up the lazy river From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 05 Aug 98 - 10:00 PM I am searching for the complete lyrics to a song that has these verses. I don't believe it is folk, but it has a folk feel to it. It has the feel of the 1940's USA to me.
Up the lazy river by the old mill run,
Up the lazy river, where the robin's song, This could be the entire song, or a reasonable approximation of it, but I am uncertain (and it seems too short). It has floated in my head for over 35 years. It was the theme song for some local TV show in Baltimore. I would like to finish it off, so to speak, having spend so much time with it. Roger in Baltimore
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Subject: Lyr Add: UP A LAZY RIVER (Hoagy Carmichael) From: BSeed Date: 06 Aug 98 - 12:28 AM Try these:
Up a lazy river by the old mill run,
Up a lazy river where the robin's song Roger and I are close in all but the third and fourth lines of the first part, and a word here and there. I guess my version has the couple together overnight (strange, since I learned it in church camp in the 40's) |
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Subject: RE: LYRIC REQ: Up the lazy river From: Roger Himler Date: 06 Aug 98 - 05:59 AM Thanks BSeed. Roger in Baltimore
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Subject: RE: LYRIC REQ: Up the lazy river From: Allan C. Date: 06 Aug 98 - 07:49 AM Roger, you may have heard it way back when you were one of Pick Temple's Giant Rangers! |
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Subject: RE: LYRIC REQ: Up the lazy river From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Aug 98 - 03:47 PM That gem was written in 1931 by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin. Carmichael and Mitchell Parish wrote "Star Dust" in 1928. I didn't realize those songs were quite so old. Maybe I didn't realize that Joe Offer was quite so old, either. Carmichael lived from 1899-1981, well into the television age, and I remember seeing him on TV when I was a kid, I think. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: LYRIC REQ: Up the lazy river From: Date: 06 Aug 98 - 04:33 PM If you ever get a chance, catch the movie "Copper Canyon". Hoagy's in it. Sings "Ole Buttermilk Sky". Bob Schwarer |
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Subject: RE: LYRIC REQ: Up the lazy river From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Aug 98 - 05:06 PM Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer may well be my favorites of the so-called "great" American songwriters of this century. There's a certain simplicity and "down-home" character to their music that I really like. I suppose they really don't measure up to the likes of Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Jerome Kern, and Richard Rodgers & Associates; but I really have fun with the music of Carmichael and Mercer. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: LYRIC REQ: Up the lazy river From: jet Date: 07 Aug 98 - 12:28 AM The Mills Brothers made this song popular back in the 40s |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LAZY RIVER (Hoagy Carmichael & S Arodin) From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 Feb 23 - 01:25 AM LAZY RIVER Words and music by Hoagy Carmichael & Sidney Arodin, ©1931. From the sheet music at the Indiana Historical Society. VERSE: I like lazy weather; I like lazy days, Can’t be blamed for having lazy ways. Some old lazy river sleeps beside my door, Whisp’ring to the sunlit shore. CHORUS: Up a lazy river by the old millrun, That lazy, lazy river in the noonday sun, Linger in the shade of a kind old tree; Throw away your troubles, dream a dream with me Up a lazy river, where the robin's song Awakes a bright new morning, we can loaf along, Blue skies up above, ev’ryone's in love, Up a lazy river, how happy you can be, Up a lazy river with me. - - - There are few recordings that include the verse. Leon Redbone sang it on his album “Up a Lazy River,” 1992 (you can hear it at Spotify); also Rockapella on “Smilin’,” 2002 (Spotify). The book I Remember Jazz, by Al Rose, says that Arodin's original version was called "Just a Lazy N****r" until Carmichael rewrote the lyrics. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Lazy River (Hoagy Carmichael) From: leeneia Date: 14 Feb 23 - 12:33 PM Thanks for locating the whole song, Jim. I suspected there was an introduction, and you found it. Hoagy Carmichael came from Indiana. This tune is a challenge. It has a range of an octave plus a third. And the chords - Ab mi 7, any one? I recall hearing this song on television as a kid, and they always blasted it good and loud, with trap drum going and maybe a couple of trumpets. But it seems to me a song which should be sung gently, caressing all those chromatics. ===== It's fun to look at the list of songs also published by the same firm (page 5) and to see which of them are familiar to me. Deep in the heart of Texas Tico Tico You're nobody till somebody loves you Wabash Cannonball, among others. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Lazy River (Hoagy Carmichael) From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 14 Feb 23 - 01:05 PM I'm surprised that Bobby Darin's name hasn't popped up as he had a top 20 hit back in 1961. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Lazy River (Hoagy Carmichael) From: leeneia Date: 18 Feb 23 - 12:55 AM In case anybody else is interested in learning the whole song from the music in Indiana that Jim Dixon linked for us, I am convinced that the first measure of the song (not the intro) is written wrong. I tried and tried to sing it off the sheet music, and I just couldn't get it memorized, because it sounded so unnatural. Then one day my fingers took the law into their own hands and changed two notes. Tada! A perfectly reasonable-sounding first phrase. The printer printed this: F D F D Db C My fingers went for: F D F D D C# I might sing it at the singaround. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Lazy River (Hoagy Carmichael) From: GUEST Date: 21 Feb 23 - 07:17 AM “Up the Lazy River” I’ve always felt this chirpy little song was too short so I added some lyrics of my own to pan it out a bit. I’ve done this type of thing on several occasions where songs appear to have only one verse and chorus. I do endeavour to remain true to the spirit of the song and I always make a concerted effort to match the original lyricist’s style. How do other mudcatters feel about this practice? |
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