Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny,
Oh!
Oh!
You Crazy Moon
On
A Little Street In Singapore
On
The Old Assembly Line
Ooh!
What You Said
Orange
Blossom Lane
Our
Love Affair
Out
of Space
Over
the Rainbow
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on November 18th 1939 with Marion Hutton.
Words
by Ed Rose, music by Abe Olman. (Written in 1917 for the
musical „Follow Me“)
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, how you can love
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, heavens above!
You make my sad heart jump with joy
And when you’re near
I
just can’t sit still a minute, I’m so
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny,
Please
tell me, dear,
What makes me
love you so
You’re not
handsome, it‘s true,
But
when I look at you
I just „oh“,
Johnny, oh, Johnny, oh...
You’re not handsome, it‘s
true
But when I look at you
Oh, Johnny
Oh,
Johnny
Oh, Johnny
Oh...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on June 22nd 1939 with Ray Eberle.
Words
by Johnny Burke, music by Jimmy Van Heusen. (Note: This was
their first song together!)
When they met the way they smiled
I saw that I was through
Oh!
You crazy moon, what did you do...
When they kissed they tried to say
That it was just in fun
Oh!
You crazy moon, look what you’ve done!
Once you promised me, you know,
That it would never end
You
should be ashamed
To show your
funny face, my friend!
There they are, they fell in love,
I guess you think you’re
smart
Oh! You crazy moon, you
broke my heart!
On A Little
Street In Singapore
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on November 22nd 1939 with Ray Eberle.
Words
by Billy Hill, music by Peter DeRose.
On a little street in Singapore
We‘d meet beside a lotus-covered
door
A veil of moonlight on a
lonely face
How pale the hands
that held me in embrace
My sails tonight are filled with
perfume of Shalimar
And temple
bells will guide me to the shore
And then I‘ll hold her in my arms
And love the way I loved before
On a little street in Singapore...
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on January 5th 1942 with Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton and the
Modernaires.
Words by Bud
Green, music by Ray Henderson.
On the old assembly line
On
the old assembly line
Everything
is hum-hum-hummin‘
On the
old assembly line
When the
overalls combine
With the
mighty dollar sign
There’ll
be miles and miles
Of American
smiles
From the factory to the
mine
On the old assembly line
(repeat once)
(spoken):
I’m
the farmer who tills the soil
I’m
the driller who drills the oil
I
forge the rivets that weld the tanks
I
buy the bonds in a thousand banks
I
build the ships we’re proud to sail
I
give my man a full dinner pail
I
clerk
I fight
I
warden at night
I plan
I rig
I
jockey a jeep
Ships, cars,
planes, tanks
North, south,
east and west
Turn the wheels and tanks
For
the millions of Yanks
From the
factory to the mine
On the old
assembly line!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on December 6th 1939 with Marion Hutton.
Words
by Johnny Mercer, music by Hoagy Carmichael. (From the musical
comedy „Three After Three“)
Ooh! What you said, got me all
flustered, face is red
Ooh!
What you said when you said what you said
Ooh!
What you did, got me all bashful like a kid
Ooh!
What you did when you did what you did
Fun is fun, but look at what you’ve
done
Ain’t you the
naughty one, talking that way,
Say,
are you joking or just outspoken?
Ooh! What you said, oughta go cover up
my head,
When you whispered “I
love you“
Ooh! What you
said...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on September 3rd 1941 with Ray Eberle.
Words
by Mitchell Parish and Nick Kenny, music Peter De Rose.
When I kissed you in Orange Blossom
Lane
I could hear this heart of
mine sing a refrain
I remember
the moon was on the wane,
It
was time to say goodbye,
And
our song became a sigh,
Where are the blossoms that hung on the
bough,
Where are the love songs
and where are you now?
I'll be waiting till you come back
again
Just to kiss you in
Orange Blossom Lane...
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on August 8th 1940 with Ray Eberle.
Written
by Arthur Freed and Roger Edens.
Our love affair will be such fun
We’ll be the envy of everyone
Those famous lovers, we’ll make
them forget
From Adam and Eve
to Scarlett and Rhett
When youth has had its merry fling
We’ll spend our evenings
remembering,
Two happy people
who say on the square,
„Isn’t
ours a lovely love affair...?“
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on September 25th 1939 with Ray Eberle.
Written
by Joe Bishop, Gene Gifford and Winky Tharp.
From out of space there came a rainbow
above
From out of space you
came to me one day, my love
Across
the moon there came a dark cloud in view
And
all too soon, now here am I but where are you?
I tried to reach you when dusk is
falling
I seem to see you, hear
you, calling...
Your lovely face was like a vision
above
From out of space, oh
please,
Come back to me, my
love!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on July 12th 1939 with Ray Eberle.
Initially
sung by Judy Garland in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz".
Words by E. Y. Harburg, music by
Harold Arlen.
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in
a lullaby
Somewhere over the
rainbow, skies are blue
And the
dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
behind me
Where troubles melt
like lemon drops
Away above the
chimney tops
That's where
you'll find me...
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are
blue*
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
(*:
The first line of the last stanza reflects Ray Eberle's mistake he
made here: On the record, rather than "bluebirds fly"
(which is the 'correct' Garland version), Ray sings "skies are
blue" again!
Oh
Ray, we love you 'smo'...
- notes by J. E. Knox "The Victor Freak")