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Curmudge ([personal profile] johncomic) wrote2009-07-21 06:47 am
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old music trivia

Been 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.