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The Andrews Sisters · 1937 · Released after Christmas 1937, the first million-seller by a female vocal group.

Context

Composed in 1932 by Sholom Secunda to Yiddish lyrics by Jacob Jacobs for a Brooklyn musical, the song received English lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin around 1937. The Andrews Sisters recorded it for Decca on November 24, 1937; about 250,000 records sold in thirty days.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941)

Sources

• EN: Bei Mir Bistu Shein
• brainz.musichoarders.xyz

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