old music trivia
Jul. 21st, 2009 06:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicBeen doing a lotta research lately regarding a project on the Swing Era, and ran across this:
“I Can't Get Started” is an American Songbook standard immortalized by Bunny Berigan in 1937, and covered by oodles of jazz artists [and lounge singers, I'm sure] in the decades since. But, apparently, the first person to perform this song publicly was...
Bob Hope.
Huh.
“I Can't Get Started” is an American Songbook standard immortalized by Bunny Berigan in 1937, and covered by oodles of jazz artists [and lounge singers, I'm sure] in the decades since. But, apparently, the first person to perform this song publicly was...
Bob Hope.
Huh.
