Origins: My Mother's Eyes

Subject: RE: Origins: My Mother´s Eyes
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 07:16 AM

Jim Dixon, thanks for that, I have just listened to it (not heard it before because I don't really listen to much jazz) and really enjoyed it.

Subject: Lyr Add: MY MOTHER'S EYES (Gilbert, Baer)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 07:09 AM

MY MOTHER'S EYES
Words, L. Wolfe Gilbert. Music, Abel Baer.
Publisher: Leo Feist, Inc., New York, 1928.

1. Back in childhood days, I can remember
Loving caresses showered on me.
Mother's eyes would gaze at me so tender.
What was their meaning? Now I can see.

CHORUS: One bright and guiding light,
That taught me wrong from right,
I found in my mother's eyes.
Those baby tales she told,
That road all paved in gold,
I found in my mother's eyes.
Just like a wandering sparrow,
One lonely soul.
I walked the straight and narrow,
To reach my goal.
God's gift sent from above,
A real unselfish love,
I found in my mother's eyes.

2. When I'm all alone, no one around me,
I find the future dark as can be.
Sorrows I have known, always surround me,
Then through the shadows, I always see. CHORUS

[You can hear a recording of MY MOTHER'S EYES performed by Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians at The Red Hot Jazz Archive - (Click to play). Only the chorus is sung.]

Subject: RE: Origins: My Mother´s Eyes
From: Scrump
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 01:22 PM

According to a site I found just now with Google, it's from the film "Lucky Boy" (1929). Written by Abel Baer (1893-1976) & Louis Wolfe Gilbert (1886-1970).

From Wikipedia: Louis Wolfe Gilbert (August 31, 1886–July 12, 1970) was a Russian-born American songwriter. Born in Odessa, Russia, he moved to the United States as a young man and soon established himself as one of the most prolific songwriters of Tin Pan Alley.

Gilbert began his career touring with John L. Sullivan and singing in a quartet at small Coney Island cafe called "College Inn", where he was discovered by English producer Albert Decourville. Decourville brought him to London as part of The Ragtime Octet. Gilbert's first songwriting success came in 1912 when F. A. Mills Music Publishers published his song Waiting For the Robert E. Lee (melody by composer Lewis F. Muir).

Gilbert moved to Hollywood in 1915, and began writing for film, television, and radio (including the Eddie Cantor show). Gilbert wrote the theme lyrics for the popular children's Television Western Hopalong Cassidy, which first aired in 1949 on NBC. He was an innovator in his field, having been one of the first songwriters to begin publishing and promoting a catalog of his own works. He served as the director of ASCAP from 1941 to 1944, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Louis Wolfe Gilbert died in Los Angeles, California on July 12, 1970. His original gravesite was at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City (Mausoleum, Court of Sages, Crypt 223) but he was later reinterred at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City) near Palm Springs, California.

Abel Baer born 16 March 1893 in Baltimore Maryland USA, died 1976.

That's all I could find quickly but there might be more if you have a look.

Subject: Origins: My Mother´s Eyes
From: jazzhistoria
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:00 AM

Origin of this song??

Ingemar