彼が作詞した曲をサラッと流してみるだけで "But Beautiful", "Here's That Rainy Day", "Imagination", "It Could Happen to You", "Like Someone in Love", "Moonlight Becomes You", "Misty", "Pennies from Heaven", "Polka Dots and Moonbeams", "Swinging on a Star", "What's New?" と出てきます。 この曲名をみて、「ああっ、あの曲かっ!」と思い出される曲ばかりではないでしょうか。
彼はNYにあった Irving Berlin Publishing に1930年頃入り、作詞家としての活動を始めています。 この時に作曲家 Harold Spina とコンビを組み、いくつかのヒット曲を送り出しています。 このコンビは1936年、バークがハリウッドに移るまで続きました。
バークはハリウッドに移り、映画音楽を数多く手掛けるようになりました。 この時コンビを組んだ作曲家たちには Arthur Johnston, Jimmy Monaco, Jimmy Van Heusen がいます。 なかでもジミー・ヴァンヒューゼンとのコンビは大成功をおさめ、数々のヒット曲を世に送り込みました。
上記のコンビ以外にも Bob Haggart と組んだ "What's New?", や Erroll Garner の曲 "Misty" に歌詞を付けたり、ナット・キング・コールが歌った "If Love Ain't There" の歌詞を書いたりと、いまやスタンダード曲になっている歌詞を提供しています。
---------------------------------------------------------------- Among the landmarks of Burke's songwriting career were:
with Harold Spina: "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore" "You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew" "My Very Good Friend, the Milkman" "Shadows on the Swanee" "The Beat of My Heart" "Now You've Got Me Doing It" "I've Got a Warm Spot in My Heart for You"
with Arthur Johnston: "Pennies from Heaven" "One Two, Button Your Shoe" "Double or Nothing" "The Moon Got in My Eyes" "All You Want to Do Is Dance"
with Jimmy Monaco: "Only Forever" "I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams" "Don't Let That Moon Get Away" "An Apple for the Teacher" "On the Sentimental Side" "My Heart Is Taking Lessons" "Scatterbrain" "That Sly Old Gentleman from Featherbed Lane" "Sing a Song of Sunbeams" "East Side of Heaven" "Too Romantic" "Sweet Potato Piper" "Where the Turf Meets the Surf" (with Bing Crosby)
with Jimmy Van Heusen: "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" "Imagination" "Moonlight Becomes You" "Sunday, Monday, or Always" "Going My Way" "Swinging on a Star" "It Could Happen to You" "And His Rockin' Horse Ran Away" "The First One Hundred Years" "But Beautiful" "Apalachicola, Fla" "Here's That Rainy Day" (from the Broadway musical Carnival in Flanders) "It's an Old Spanish Custom" (from Carnival In Flanders) "Oh, You Crazy Moon" "To See You Is to Love You" "Suddenly It's Spring" "Like Someone in Love" "(We're Off on the) Road to Morocco" "You May Not Love Me" "It's Always You" "A Friend Of Yours"[1] "Personality" "Life Is So Peculiar"
"Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (Harold Spina/Joe Young, Johnny Burke/1933) - (#15) "The Beat of My Heart" (Harold Spina/Johnny Burke/1934) - (#21) "But Beautiful" (Jimmy Van Husen/Johnny Burke/1947) - (#10) "Chicago Style" (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke/1952) - (#5) "Good-Time Charley" (Jimmy Van Husen/Johnny Burke/1943) - (#11) "Moon And The Willow Tree" (Victor Schertzinger/Johnny Burke/1940) - (#12) "Moon Flowers" (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke/1952) - (#7) "Moonlight Becomes You" (James Van Heusen/Johnny Burke/1942) - (#8) "My Very Good Friend, the Milkman" (Harold Spina/Johnny Burke/1935) - (#17) "Road To Morocco" (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke/1942) - (#3) "Shadows on the Swanee" (Harold Spina/Johnny Burke/1933) - (#19) "Too Romantic" (Jimmy Monaco/Johnny Burke/1940) - (#13) "Welcome To My Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke/1943) - (#2) "You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew" (Harold Spina/Johnny Burke/1934) - (#16) "You Don't Have To Know The Language" (James Van Heusen/Johnny Burke/1947) - (#9)
Recorded at National Recording Studios, New York City, November 17, 18 & 24, 1986
1. Welcome To My Dream
2. Road To Morocco
3. Chicago Style
4. Moon Flowers
5. Moonlight Becomes You
6. You Don't Have To Know The Language
7. But Beautiful
8. Good-Time Charley
9. Moon And The Willow Tree
10. Too Romantic
Musicians:
Anita Gravine (vo)
Gary Burton (vib)
George Mraz (b)
Joe Shepley Burt Collins (tp, piccolo tp, flugelhorn)
Mickey Gravine (tb)
Paul Faulise or Dave Taylor (bass tb)
Peter Gordon or John Cjlark (french horn)
Joey Baron (ds)
Sammy Figueroa (percussion)
Michael Abene (p)
Jerry Dodgion, Dick Oatts, Bill Kirchner, John Purcell, Frank Vicari, Wally Kane (sax/woodwinds)
このアルバムは、映画 Road to .... シリーズで使われた曲を集めたもので、作曲は Jimmy Van Heusen, 作詞はジョニー・バークのコンビによるものです。
Road to .... シリーズは Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour 3人の主演によるコメディ映画で、次のものが作られています。
Road to Singapore (1940)
Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Road to Utopia (made in 1943, but not released until 1946)
Road to Rio (1947)
Road to Bali (1952)
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
この曲は映画 Road To Morocco で使われました
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035262/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_3_nm_0_q_Road%2520To%2520Morocco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Morocco
We're off on the road to Morocco
This camel is tough on the spine (hit me with a band-aid, Dad)
Where they're going, why we're going, how can we be sure
I'll lay you eight to five that we'll meet Dorothy Lamour
(Yeah, get in line)
Off on the road to Morocco
Hang on till the end of the line (I like your jockey. Quiet)
I hear this country's where they do the dance of the seven veils
We'd tell you more (uh-ah) but we would have the censor on our tails
(Good boy)
We certainly do get around
Like Webster's Dictionary we're Morocco bound
We're off on the road to Morocco
Well look out, well clear the way, 'cause here we come
Stand by for a concussion
The men eat fire, sleep on nails and saw their wives in half
It seems to me there should be easier ways to get a laugh
(Shall I slip on my big shoes?)
Off on the road to Morocco
Hooray! Well blow a horn, everybody duck
Yeah. It's a green light, come on boys
We may run into villains but we're not afraid to roam
Because we read the story and we end up safe at home (yeah)
Certainly do get around
Like Webster's Dictionary we're Morocco bound
We certainly do get around
Like a complete set of Shakespeare that you get
In the corner drugstore for a dollar ninety-eight
We're Morocco bound
Or, like a volume of Omar Khayyam that you buy in the
Department store at Christmas time for your cousin Julia
We're Morocco bound
(We could be arrested)
この曲は映画 Road to Bali (1952) で使われました
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045094/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Bali
Look out
You ready for this?
Who's that comin' down the thoroughfare?
The sunshine flashin' on his ring
Bowin' left and right and here and there
That's Chester, the trombone king
He gets his shirts straight from Paris, cigarettes from the Nile
He talks like a eyebrow but he plays Chicago style
He gets his shoes made in London and they're real crocodile
But he plays trombone Chicago style
And he sometimes plays sweet hup-toodle-oodle-oodle-dee-ooo
But sweet or hot he's always got that real gut bucket beat
He's got a neat Latin moustache and the girls love his smile
But he plays trombone Chicago style
A trombone made in Newark played in Chicago style
Chicago style
Chicago style
He gets his neckties from Naples and his socks from Argyle
Speaks Oxford English but he plays Chicago style
Wears a stickpin from Rio, are you listenin'?
You can see it for a mile but he plays trombone Chicago style
And he sometimes plays sweet uncle Jake's weary blues
But sweet or hot, he's always got that real gut bucket beat
He likes New York for the Opera and gets two on the aisle
But he plays trombone Chicago style
A trombone made in Newark played in Chicago style
Yes, sir, hey, hey
A trombone played Chicago style
この曲は、映画 Road to Singapore (1940) で使われました。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Singapore
ヴァース部の歌詞が載っているサイトを発見できませんでした。
I'm so afraid of night 'cause I'm too romantic
Moonlight and stars can make such a fool of me
You know you're much too near, and I am too romantic
Wouldn't I be a sight on a bended knee
I'm startled when you whisper, I'll run if you should sigh
I must be so careful, or I'll kiss my heart goodbye
You shouldn't let me dream 'cause I'm too romantic
Don't make me fall unless it could all come true
1980年頃、しばらくドイツに住み、フライブルクのジャズ&ロック・スクールで教えながら、たまに演奏する程度だった。デビュー・アルバム『ドリーム・ダンシング』(プログレッシヴ)は1980年代初頭にリリースされた。帰国後、マイケル・アビーンのもとで働き、マネス音楽大学で教鞭をとる。1985年にアルバム『I Always Knew』をリリース。その1年後、1993年にジャズ・アライアンスからリリースされた『Welcome to My Dream』を録音。1990年代初頭には、映画・ビデオ制作会社Sargassoを設立。
作曲: Harold Spina
作詞: Joe Young, Johnny Burke
作曲年 1933
この曲の最初の録音です
Guy Lombardo Kenny Gardner (1933)
Mel Tormé – A Day In The Life Of Bonnie And Clyde (1968)
https://www.discogs.com/ja/master/1349868-Mel-Torm%C3%A9-A-Day-In-The-Life-Of-Bonnie-And-Clyde
It’s a tragedy that happened on a side street
When a fellow went to ring his sweetheart’s bell
He saw the shades were drawn, and he knew his girl was gone
When he listened to the story that the neighbour had to tell
Annie doesn’t live here any more
You must be the one she waited for
She said I would know you by the blue in your eyes
Chequered suit, a fancy vest, a polka-dot tie
You answer that description, so I guess that you’re the guy
Well, Annie doesn’t live here any more.
Annie doesn’t live here any more.
It’s too bad you didn’t call before
She just bought a gown that ties with ribbons or bows
Brand new shoes, a pretty hat, the latest style goes
She really looked so alluring, and just waiting for your love
But Annie doesn’t live here any more
Rebecca Kilgore And The Bobby Gordon Trio – Make Someone Happy - A Further Remembrance Of Maxine Sullivan Volume Two (2005)
https://www.discogs.com/ja/release/16057186-Rebecca-Kilgore-And-The-Bobby-Gordon-Trio-Make-Someone-Happy-A-Further-Remembrance-Of-Maxine-Sulliva
Maxine Sullivan, Bob Haggart – Enjoy Yourself! (1986)
https://www.discogs.com/ja/release/9066985-Maxine-Sullivan-Bob-Haggart-Enjoy-Yourself
Dorsey Brothers Orchestra - All the Hits and More 1928-35 (compilation)
https://www.allmusic.com/album/all-the-hits-and-more-1928-35-mw0004352873
Eric Clapton – Clapton (2010)
https://www.discogs.com/ja/master/287027-Eric-Clapton-Clapton
[Verse 1]
My very good friend the milkman says
That I've been losing too much sleep
He doesn't like the hours I keep
He suggests that you should marry me
Ah, turn it loose!
[Verse 2]
My very good friend the mailman says
That it would make his burden less
If we both had the same address
And he suggests that you should marry me
[Bridge]
Then there's a very friendly fellow who prints
All the latest real estate news
And every day he sends me bluеprints
Of cottages with country views
[Verse 3]
My very good friеnds and neighbours say
They've been watching little things I do
And they believe that I love you
So I suggest that you should marry me
[Instrumental Break]
Aah Yes!
Here's that boy with the real estate news, baby
How d'ya like them blueprints, huh?
Like them cottages with country views?
Well, let's get one there
[Verse 4]
Oh my very good friends and neighbours say
They've been watching little things I do
And they believe I love you too
So I suggest that you should marry me
[Outro]
Let the band play "Here Comes The Bride"
Hah-hah, end of song, baby
このあたりがこの曲の最初の録音になるようです。
1933 Paul Ash - Shadows On The Swanee (Auriole Craven, vocal)
Henry Allen, Coleman Hawkins & Their Orchestra (1933)
Isham Jones And His Orchestra* – Shadows On The Swanee: 1932-1934
https://www.discogs.com/ja/release/16095052-Isham-Jones-And-His-Orchestra-Shadows-On-The-Swanee-1932-1934
[Verse 1]
Shadows on the Swanee
In the evenin' by the moonlight, lovers everywhere
How I wish that I were there
Among those shadows on the Swanee
Just to sing a Southern ballad, underneath the Southern sky
As I did in days gone by
[Verse 2]
Why did I wander so far away
From all my sweethearts seen
Never thought that I'd be lonesome
But now I know just what it means
[Bridge]
Longing, how I'm longing
To be walkin' with my sweetie
Then there'd be two more
Shadows on the Swanee shore
[Verse 3]
Why ain't I sleeping? All my thoughts are leaping
There's a craving deep in me
Feel so foresaken, I just lie awake and
Through a sleepless night I see
Shadows on that Swanee
[Interlude]
Getting back to some more shadows on that Swanee
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Bridge]
Longing, how I'm longing
To be walkin' with my sweetie
Then there'd be two more
Shadows on that Swanee shore