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Inasmuch as I originally copyrighted the version as sung by the Andrews Sisters on the Decca record and later turned it over to Exclusive Music, I believe you may be interested in knowing of several of the numerous complications about the song...
Vocalist record-of-the-month: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Vocalion), sung with great skill and taste by Nan Wynn, rising Negro chanteuse, and excellently accompanied by Walter Gross's band...
...marked one passage Allegro Cristiano (quick but Christian), confessed he did not know whether it was "musique sacrée ou sacrée musique" (sacred or accursed music), made one tenor solo, Domine Deus, sound like a swashbuckler's serenade, and directed that the composition should be sung by "three sexes-men, women and eunuchs." The Westminster Choir got along all right with the first...
...encourage revolution. In 1929, while staid London music lovers frowned and looked the other way, London's musical leftists, led by Composer Bush, drew throngs to a class-angled production of Handel's venerable sacred oratorio, Belshazzar. Handel's serene 18th-Century score was sung with traditional massiveness by a chorus of 1,800 voices. But it was so staged that the fall of Handel's Babylonians was made to represent the fall of capitalism, and the victory of Handel's Persians, the victory of science, art and socialism...
Baritone Harrell learned fiddling first, found he had a voice while studying violin in Philadelphia in 1932. Since then he has toured Europe's concert halls twice, had a Town Hall recital, sung with the New York Philharmonic (Children's Concert) and the Boston Symphony, is now soloist at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. He wants to sing Wagner...