{"id":394,"date":"2011-08-24T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:37:37","slug":"jack-hylton-if-you-were-mine-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hylton “If You Were Mine” 1929"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“If You Were Mine”
\nJack Hylton And His Orchestra
\n1929 (HMV B 5720 mx Bb18047)
\nJack Hylton And His Orchestra – If You Were Mine]<\/a><\/p>\n

This Jack Hylton<\/a> record is a recent acquisition that features a song I was not previously familiar with.\u00a0 The song has provided me with a little mystery to solve:\u00a0 \u00a0 The label’s composer credit says it was written by someone named “Myers.”\u00a0\u00a0 However, I wonder if this is perhaps a typo and if the actual composer is George W. Meyer who composed a song by that name for the 1929 First National film Twin Beds<\/em>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that film is now believed to be lost.<\/p>\n

I did find another British recording of this song from 1930 by Ray Starita on YouTube and have a message in asking the poster if he could provide me with the name listed in the composer credits.<\/p>\n

There was another song by the same name composed by Matt Malneck and Johnny Mercer from around 1935 that was recorded by Billie Holliday, Teddy Wilson and others.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, the song on the flip side of this record is a waltz “My Song of the Nile” which was<\/em> composed by George W. Meyer who is accurately credited.\u00a0\u00a0 That song was featured in another 1929 First National picture Drag<\/em>.\u00a0 The film was released in the UK under the alternate title Parasites<\/em> which is mentioned on the label. \u00a0 No mention of any film is made on the “If You Were Mine” side.<\/p>\n

If anyone reading this is in a position to confirm whether or not the song featured here is the same as the George W. Meyer song from Twin Beds<\/em>,\u00a0 I would very much appreciate your posting a comment below letting me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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