Until I Smile At You by Peter Jennings

Author:Peter Jennings
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dreams, music, biography, smile, 1940, frank sinatra, billboard, tommy dorsey, ruth lowe, top songs
Publisher: TransGender Publishing (imprint of Castle Carrington Publishing)

Will Friedwald, author (whose newest book The Music of Nat King Cole: Straighten Up and Fly Right debuts soon)

It’s a really good song. An outstanding song. A great Canadian song. I mean, it would be too much an apples-and-oranges thing to compare it to, say, an Irving Berlin number or something like that, but it sure was the perfect song for Sinatra to sing in that period. If anything, the song’s appeal might be limited because it can’t really be done in a different way: it’s a slow ballad and I can’t imagine it as any kind of an up-tempo number.

But you know, one thing that occurs to me is that every year on Canada Day, in July, here in New York, there’s a big concert and they have a whole program of songs by Canadian songwriters. And there’s Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen and that group. But there’s nothing from the Great American Songbook! Why is that? After the folk-rock period, there are a ton of Canadian composers and performers that they showcase. But where is Canadian theatrical composer Sheldon Brooks who wrote some of the biggest hits of the early part of the 20th century—notably “Some of These days,” which was picked up by Sophie Tucker and used as her theme song for 55 years? Where is Ruth Lowe? Why are they not featured? Because, man! She really had it together with “I’ll Never Smile Again,” that’s for sure!

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