SWING ALONG Advance Artist Copy, Words and Music by Jacques Wolfe

Wolfe, Jacques

Published by A Robbins Publication, Copyright 1934 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Robbins Music Corp.: NY, 1934

About this Item

12 x 9.25", printed cream wraps, (6pp). Light creasing and soiling, tear along lower spine else good to very good condition. Stamped "Standard Edition". Songwriter Jacques Wolfe, 1896-1973, was born in Romania and emigrated with his family to New York as a child and attended the Institute of Musical Art, the forerunner to the Julliard School. It was during his service in WWI where he played a clarinet in a military band that was that he was first exposed to Negro folk songs. From the liner notes of "Sad Song In The Air", a 1934 song he collaborated on with Langston Hughes: "Transferred South Jacques Wolfe made his first direct contact with native negro music. The simplicity, sincerity and spontaneity of the folk songs struck a responsive chord in the composer, and he decided, then, to develop the spiritual as an art form. 'De Glory Road' was his first effort in this vein, and it was immediately recognized and accepted as a brilliant conception of the negro spiritual in a new form". Paul Robeson was the first to perform 'De Glory Road', he sang it in his 1933 film "Emperor Jones". A sampling from "Swing Along": "Golden chariot's a-comin'…Git on board…There's Moses waitin' fo' to shake your hand and take you to dat Promised Land". Very SCARCE.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SWING ALONG Advance Artist Copy, Words and Music by Jacques Wolfe
• Publisher: A Robbins Publication, Copyright 1934 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Robbins Music Corp.: NY
• Publication Date: 1934
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
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