Some Things to Listen to before Class on October 28, 2025

Here some videos to listen to before class on October 28, 2025.

 SONG STRUCTURE

RHYMES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suXGrzXCNzU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCfSSo8W0G4

 

TIME SIGNATURES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fwLCgtlvY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoSZ1yhxgqA

 

EARLY BROADWAY

THE YAMA YAMA MAN

Karl Hoschna, Collin Davis (1908)

from "The Three Twins"

performed by Ada Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1YVCIkIc6E

performed by Ginger Rogers (as Irene Castle as Bessie McCoy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCB2xsrm4vk

 

ITALIAN STREET SONG

by Victor Herbert, Rida Johnson Young (1910)

from "Naughty Marietta" (1910)

performed by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy (1935)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94pvclfugk

performed by Anna Moffo (televised appearance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9RjDV96Uok

INDIAN LOVE CALL

by Rudolf Frimi, Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II (1924)

from "Rose Marie"

performed by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald (1936 film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMD_5H0Nqqo

performed by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald (commercial recording)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyT-VSE6M1k

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

by Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed (1929)

from "Hollywood Revue of 1929)

performed by Ukelele Ike (Cliff Edwards)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRcr_5qWa-o

SHOWBOAT

all songs by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II (1927)

excerpts form 1936 filmed version

CAN'T HELP LOVIN' THAT MAN

performed by Helen Morgan, Irene Dunne, Hattie McDaniel, Paul Robeson)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cZmvLixcTA

 

OL' MAN RIVER

peformed by Paul Robeson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df4VdyGIqJ8

BILL

performed by Helen Morgan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c83IYf424ak

See y'all in class!