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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
If Rudy Vallee was the most popular, then why did Bing Crosby show up but Rudy didn't in a quick Google search?
Most of the younger generation probably hasn't heard of Rudy Vallee either or Bing Crosby for that matter.
Oh on protest songs, my daughter texted me the other day about Ohio. She wanted to know who sang it. She loves the song.
Ok, I have a song for you. Turn, Turn, turn. Are the words literature or song lyrics?
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Maybe your search was a little too quick. I did a search myself and found this:
"For the documentary film of the same name, see Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (film).
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, also sung as Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?, is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written in 1930 by lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was part of the 1932 musical Americana;the melody is based on a Russian-Jewish lullaby Gorney's mother had sung to him as a child. It was considered by Republicans to be anti-capitalist propaganda, and almost dropped from the show; attempts were made to ban it from the radio. The song became best known, however, through recordings by Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee. They were released right before Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election to the presidency. The Brunswick Crosby recording became the best-selling record of its period, and came to be viewed as an anthem to the shattered dreams of the era"
If Harburg wrote the lyrics, aren't the lyrics the words of the song?
Both Rudy Vallee and Bing Crosby were very popular singers of the day. The Vallee version is the one I am most familiar with although apparently Crosby's version sold more records. I too doubt if very many young people ever heard of either Rudy Vallee or Bing Crosby. One of my favorite depression era songs was "Happy Days Are Here Again" as sung by Annette Hanshaw; the song was written in 1929 and became the campaign song for FDR in 1932. Bit of a contradiction because the depression lasted several years more.
""Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)" — often abbreviated to "Turn! Turn! Turn!" — is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s. The lyrics, except for the title which is repeated throughout the song and the final two lines, are adapted word-for-word from the English version of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes."
So maybe the words are actually literature and not exactly song lyrics?
I was not familiar with the song "Ohio" but looked it up and listened to it on YouTube. It is by Crosby Stills Nash & Young. The lyrics were written by Young.
But I still do not think that Bob Dylan deserved the Nobel Prize for literature.