Standard Jazz Songコミュのバートン・レイン ソングブック

Burton Lane (né Levy; February 2, 1912 – January 5, 1997)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Lane

主として舞台（ミュージカル）や映画音楽で活躍してきたバートン・レインですが、ミュージカル作品としては映画化もされた Finian's Rainbow (1947) 『フィニアンの虹』が特によく知られています。
（この作品は人種差別問題を扱っています）
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finian%27s_Rainbow

また彼が書いた曲では "Too Late Now", "How About You?", "Everything I Have Is Yours", "I Hear Music", "Old Devil Moon", "On a Clear Day You Can see Forever", "Come Back to Me", "I'm a Woman" 等の皆さんもよく耳にしている大スタンダード曲があり、バートン・レインがこれらの曲を書いたんだということは知らないでも、よく聞いたり歌ったりしていることでしょう。

アレック・ワイルダーの著書 American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 では
9. Burton Lane (1912- ), Hugh Martin(1914- ), and Vernon Duke (1903-1969)
として一章が割かれています。

これだけの大スタンダード曲を生み出してきたバートン・レインなのですが、彼の曲を扱ったソングブック・アルバムが思いのほか少ないのです。

もしみなさんがご存じのソングブック・アルバムがありましたらぜひご紹介ください。

もう一つ彼の業績として知られるのは、あの天才少女、13歳のジュディ・ガーランドを掘り起こしたことにあります。
1935年のこと、彼女の姉妹のショウを見た彼はすぐにMGMの音楽部門責任者ジャック・ロビンスに連絡を取り、オーディションを受けさせ、ジュディは契約し、それが彼女のキャリアの始まりになりました。

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland

　　　　　(25 Jul. 2023)

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American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 の中で Alec Wilder は Burton Lane をこのように評しています。


「バートン・レインの経歴は少々変わっていて、1930年以来、劇場のための挿入歌を書いていたにもかかわらず、彼の最初のフルスコアは1940年まで現れなかった。1947年と1965年に、それぞれ『フィニアンズ・レインボウ』と『晴れた日にはどこまでも遠くが見える』のフルスコアを書いている。非常に優れた曲をいくつか書いているが、一般にはあまり知られていない。彼はニューヨークとハリウッドの間を行き来し、映画と演劇に専念してきた。独立したポップソングを発表した記録はない。
最初に発表された4曲は、1930年の2つのショーで2曲ずつ歌ったもので、曲作りに対する若者の熱意が感じられる程度だ。しかし1931年、レーンは『The Third Little Show』のためにSay The Wordというとてもチャーミングな曲を書いた。この曲は叙情的で、リズムも十分で、もっと長く歌われてもいい曲だ。
彼の最初の有名な曲「Everything I Have Is Yours」は、1933年に映画『ダンシング・レディ』のために書かれた。スタンダードとなったこの曲は、決して素晴らしいものではなかったが、それでも一般的なリスナーには想起されることだろう。」


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アルバムリスト(登場降順）
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#1 - Maxine Sullivan With The Keith Ingham Sextet – The Lady's In Love With You (Maxine Sullivan Sings The Music Of Burton Lane) / Harbinger Records / 1985


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reserved album (alphabetical)
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Michael Feinstein / Michael Feinstein Sings The Burton Lane Songbook Vol.1
Michael Feinstein / Michael Feinstein Sings The Burton Lane Songbook, Vol.2


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登場曲 (alphabetical) Composer/Lyricist/year - (comment No.)
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"The Begat" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#33)
"Come Back To Me" (Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner/1965) - (#13)
"Dancing On A Dime" (Burton Lane/Frank Loesser/1940) - (#14)
"Everything I Have Is Yours" (Burton Lane/Harold Adamson/1933) - (#5)
"Fiddle Faddle" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#32)
"The Great 'Come-and-Get-It' Day" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#29)
"Have Feet Will Dance" (Burton Lane/Dorothy Fields/1957) - (#16)
"How About You?" (Burton Lane/Ralph Freed/1941) - (#18)
"How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#12)
"How'dja Like To Love Me?" (Burton Lane/Frank Loesser/1938) - (#4)
"Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here" (Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner/1965) - (#36)
"I Hear Music" (Burton Lane/Frank Loesser/1940) - (#20)
"If This Isn't Love" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#27)
"Look to the Rainbow" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#23)
"Necessity" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#28)
"Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#24)
"On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner/1965) - (#8)
"Poor You" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1942) - (#11)
"Says My Heart" (Burton Lane/Frank Loesser/1938) - (#9)
"Something Sort of Grandish" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#26)
"Stop! You're Breakin' My Heart" (Burton Lane/Ted Koehler/1937) - (#17)
"Tain't No Use" (Burton Lane/Herb Magidson/1936) - (#6)
"The Lady's In Love With You" (Burton Lane/Frank Loesser/1939) - (#2)
"This Time of The Year" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#22)
"Too Late Now" (Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner/1951) - (#15)
"When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#30)
"Where Have I Seen Your Face Before?" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1980) - (#19)
"When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg/1947) - (#34)


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reserved songs
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Artists and Models (1930)
"My Real Ideal" (lyrics by Samuel Lerner)

Three's a Crowd (1930)
"Forget All Your Books" (lyrics by Howard Dietz and Samuel M. Lerner)
"Out in the Open Air" (lyrics by Howard Dietz and Ted Pola)

The Third Little Show (1931)
"Say the Word" (lyrics by Harold Adamson)

Earl Carroll's Vanities (1931)
(lyrics by Harold Adamson)
"Have a Heart"
"Going to Town With Me"
"The Mahoneyphone"
"Masks and Hands"
"Love Came into My Heart"
"Oh My Yes"
"Heigh Ho the Gang's All Here"

Dancing Lady (1933) (new songs only)
(lyrics by Harold Adamson)
"Everything I Have Is Yours"
"Let's Go Bavarian"

College Swing (1938)
(lyrics by Frank Loesser)
"Moments Like This"
"How'dja Like to Love Me

Some Like It Hot (1939)
"The Lady's in Love With You" (lyrics by Frank Loesser)

Hold on to Your Hats (1940)
(lyrics by E. Y. Harburg)
"Way Out West Where the East Begins"
"Hold Onto Your Hats"
"Walking Along Mindin' My Business"
"The World Is In My Arms"
"Would You be So Kindly"
"Life Was Pie for the Pioneer"
"Don't Let It Get You Down"
"There's a Great Day Coming, Manana"
"Then You Were Never in Love"
"Down on the Dude Ranch"
"She Came, She Saw, She Canned"
"Old-Timer"

Dancing on a Dime (1941)
(lyrics by Frank Loesser)
"Dancing on a Dime" (lyrics by Frank Loesser)
"I Hear Music"
"Manana"

Babes on Broadway (1941)
"Babes on Broadway" (lyrics by Ralph Freed)
"Anything Can Happen in New York" (lyrics by Ralph Freed)
"Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry On" (lyrics by E. Y. Harburg)
"How About You? (lyrics by Ralph Freed)

Ship Ahoy (1942)
"I'll Take Tallulah" (lyrics by E. Y. Harburg)
"The Last Call for Love" (lyrics by Margery Cummings and E. Y. Harburg)
"How About You? (lyrics by Ralph Freed)
"Poor You" (lyrics by E. Y. Harburg)

DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
"DuBarry Was a Lady" (lyrics by Ralph Freed)
"Madam, I Love Your Crepe Suzette" (lyrics by Lew Brown and Ralph Freed)

Laffing Room Only (1944)
"Feudin' and Fightin'" (lyrics by Al Dubin and Burton Lane)

Finian's Rainbow (1947)
(lyrics by E. Y. Harburg)
"This Time of the Year"
"How Are things in Glocca Morra?"
"Look to the Rainbow"
"Old Devil Moon"
"Something Sort of Grandish"
"If This Isn't Love"
"Necessity"
"The Great 'Come-and-Get-It' Day"
"When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich"
"Fiddle Faddle"
"The Begat"
"When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love"

Royal Wedding (1951)
(lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)
"Too Late Now"
"Ev'ry Night At Seven"
"Sunday Jumps"
"Open Your Eyes"
"You're all the World to Me"
"I Left My Hat in Haiti"
"What a Lovely Day for a Wedding"
"How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life"

Jupiter's Darling (1955)
(lyrics by Harold Adamnson)
"If This Be Slav'ry"
"I Had a Dream"
"Hannibal's Victory March"
"Never Trust a Woman"
"Don't Let This Night Get Away"
"The Life of an Elephant"
"This Is What I Love"

Junior Miss (1947)
"Junior Miss" (lyrics by Dorothy Fields)

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965)
(lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)
"Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here"
"Ring Out the Bells" (cut from production)
"Tosy and Cosh" (cut from production)
"On a Clear Day You Can see Forever"
"On the S.S. Bernard Cohn"
"At the Hellrakers" (cut from production)
"Don't Tamper With My Sister" (cut from production)
"She Wasn't You"
"Melinda"
"When I'm Being Born Again"
"What Did I Have That I Don't Have"
"Wait 'Til We're Sixty-Five"
"Come Back to Me"

We Bombed in New Haven (1968)
"Bomb, Bomb, Bombing Along" (lyrics by Joseph Heller)

Carmelina (1979)
(lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)
"It's Time for a Love Song"
"Why Him?
"I Must Have Her"
"Someone in April"
"Signora Campbell"
"Love Before Breakfast"
"Yankee Doodles Are Coming to Town"
"One More Walk Around the Garden"
"All That He'd Want Me to Be"
"Carmelina"
"The Image of Me"
"I'm a Woman"
"The Image of You"

The 1940's Radio Hour (1979)
"How About You"

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (2011)

[Listing only additional songs]
"Who Is There Among Us Who Knows?" (written for the film version but cut from the final print)
"Love With All the Trimmings" (written for the film version)
"Go to Sleep" (written for the film version)