257. Twenty-Four Hours A Day (1935)

lyrics by Arthur Swanstrom

music by  James Frederick Hanley

Like a little old fashioned music box

With just one tune to play

My heart keeps singin’ I love you

Twenty four hours a day

Like a little old fashioned music box

That skips a note or two

My heart keeps missin’ a heart beat

Singin’ its song about you

And although the song we know is old

It’s still the sweetest story ever told

Like a little old fashioned music box

With just one tune to play

My heart keeps singin’ I love you

Twenty four hours a day

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256. Trav’lin’ Light

Johnny Mercer & Jimmy Mundy

follows 6 versions of that song

I’m trav’lin’ light
Because my man has gone
And from now on
I’m trav’lin’ light
He said goodbye
And took my heart away
So from today
I’m trav’lin’ light

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories
Some lucky night
He may come back again
But until then
I’m trav’lin’ light

 

2nd version

I’m trav’lin’ light
Because my man has gone
So from now on
I’m trav’lin’ light
He said goodbye
And took my heart away
So from today
I’m trav’lin’ light

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories
Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m trav’lin’ light

(repeat)

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories
Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m trav’lin’ light

 

3rd version

I’m trav’lin’ light
Because my man has gone
So from now on
I’m trav’lin’ light
He said goodbye
And took my heart away
So from today
I’m trav’lin’ light

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories
Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m trav’lin’ light

(repeat)

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories
Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m trav’lin’ light

 

4th version

I’m trav’lin’ light
Because my man has gone
So from now on
I’m trav’lin’ light
He said goodbye
And took my heart away
So from today
I’m trav’lin’ light

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories

Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m trav’lin’ light

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories

Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m trav’lin’ light

 

5th version

Billie introduces the next song
“Thank you very much Ladies and Gentlemen, you’re a wonderful audience after three days, with all the support (…) what can I do for you? Trav’lin’ Light?”

 

I’m trav’lin’ light
Because my man has gone
So from now on
I’m travelin’ light
He said goodbye
And took my heart away
So from today
I’m travelin’ light

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories

Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m travelin’ light

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories

Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m travelin’ light

(applauses)

 

6th version

I’m trav’lin’ light
Because my man has gone
So from now on
I’m travelin’ light
He said goodbye
And took my heart away
So from today
I’m travelin’ light

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories

Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m travelin’ light

No one to see
I’m free as the breeze
No one but me
And my memories

Some lucky night
He may come back again
So until then
I’m travelin’

light

(applauses)

 

255. Trav’lin’ All Alone (1930)

lyrics and music by J. C. Johnson

I’m so weary and all alone
Feel tired like heavy stone
Trav’lin’, trav’lin’ all alone
Who will see and who will care
Bout this load that I must bear
Trav’lin’, trav’lin’ all alone
Prayers are said to heaven above
‘Bout my burdens woes and love
Head bowed down with misery
Nothing now appeals to me
Trav’lin’, trav’lin’ all alone

(bridge)

Give me just another day
There’s one thing I want to say
Friends are well when all is gold
Leave you always when you’re old
Trav’lin’, trav’lin’ all alone

 

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254. Too Marvelous For Words (1937)

Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Music by Richard A. Whiting

You’re just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious glamorous
And that old standby amorous

It’s all so wonderful
I’ll never find the words
That say enough tell enough
I mean just aren’t swell enough

You’re much too much
You’re just too very, very
To ever be in Webster’s Dictionary
And so I’m borrowing
A love song from the birds
To tell you that you’re marvelous
Too marvelous to words

You’re just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious glamorous
And that old standby amorous

It’s all so wonderful
I’ll never find the words
That say enough tell enough
I mean they just aren’t swell enough

You’re much too much
You’re just too very, very
To ever be in Webster’s Dictionary
And so I’m borrowing
A love song from the birds
To tell you that you’re marvelous
Too marvelous for words

Like glorious and glamorous
Too marvelous for words

 

2nd version

You’re just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious glamorous
And that old standby amorous

It’s all so wonderful
I’ll never find the words
That say enough tell enough
I mean just aren’t swell enough

You’re much too much
You’re just too very, very
To ever be in Webster’s Dictionary
And so I’m borrowing
A love song from the birds
To tell you that you’re marvelous
Too marvelous for words

You’re just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious glamorous
That old standby amorous

It’s all so wonderful
I’ll never find the words
That say enough tell enough
I mean they just aren’t swell enough

You’re much too much
You’re just too very, very
To ever be in Webster’s Dictionary
And so I’m borrowing
A love song from the birds
To tell you that you’re marvelous
Too marvelous for words

Like glorious and glamorous
Too marvelous for words

 

3rd version

You’re just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious glamorous
And that old standby amorous

It’s all so wonderful
I’ll never find the words
That say enough tell enough
I mean they just aren’t swell enough

You’re much too much
Just too very, very
To ever be in Webster’s Dictionary
And so I’m borrowing
A love song from the birds
To tell you that you’re marvelous
Too marvelous for words

You’re just too marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious glamorous
That old standby amorous

It’s all so wonderful
I’ll never find the words
That say enough tell enough
I mean they just aren’t swell enough

You’re much too much
Just too very, very
To ever be in Webster’s Dictionary
And so I’m borrowing
A love song from the birds
To tell you that you’re marvelous
Too marvelous for words
Like glorious and glamorous
Too marvelous for words

(applauses)

From the film Ready, Willing and Able with Ross Alexander,Wini Shaw & Ruby Keeler

252.This Year’s Kisses (1937)

lyrics and music by Irving Berlin

This year’s crop of kisses
Don’t seem as sweet to me
This year’s crop just misses
What kisses used to be
This year’s new romance
Doesn’t seem to have a chance
Even helped by Mr. Moon above

This year’s crop of kisses is not for me
For I’m still wearin’ last year’s love

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(This Is) My Last Affair

Haven Johnson

Can’t you see
What love and romance have done to me
I’m not the same as I used to be
This is my last affair

Tragedy
Just seems to be the end of me
My happiness is misery
This is my last affair

Right from the start
You took my love
Tore my heart apart
Now there’s nothing new to look forward to
My dreams won’t come true

So I’ll make a vow, make a vow
No more to love’s shrine will I bow
I cross my heart and seal it now
This is my last affair

250. Things Are Looking Up (1937)

lyrics by Ira Gershwin

music by George Gershwin

Things are looking up
I’ve been looking the landscape over
And it’s covered with four leaf clover
Oh things are looking up
Since love looked up at me

Bitter was my cup
But no more will I be the mourner
For I’ve certainly turned the corner
Oh things are looking up
Since love looked up at me

See the sunbeams
Every one beams
Just because of you
Love’s in session
And my depression
Is unmistakably through

Things are looking up
It’s a great little world we live in
Oh, I’m happy as a pup
Since love looked up at me

 

From the film A Damsel in Distress with Fred Astaire and Joan Fontaine

249. They Say

Edward Heyman & Paul Mann & Stephan Weiss

They say you have no lips
For a fool such as I
They say you just believe
In hello and goodbye
And they say that the one I admire
Isn’t even remotely concerned
And that I’ll go on playing with fire
Until I have learned
My heart has been burned

They say I shouldn’t dream
Of your face in the moon
They say all of my dreams will be
Nightmares too soon
Let them talk
Let them think what they want to
If it makes them feel happy that way
I know I’ll always love you
No matter what they say

 

2nd version

They say you have no lips
For a fool such as I
They say you just believe
In hello and goodbye
And they say that the one I admire
Isn’t even remotely concerned
And that I’ll go on playing with fire
Until I have learned
My heart has been burned

They say I shouldn’t dream
Of your face in the moon
They say all of my dreams will be
Nightmares too soon
Let them talk
Let them think what they want to
If it makes them feel happy that way
I know I’ll always love you
No matter what they say

248. They Can’t Take That Away From Me (1936)

lyrics by Ira Gershwin

music by George Gershwin

follows 4 versions of this song

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off-key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

(bridge)

We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

 

2nd version

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

(bridge)

We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

 

3rd version

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

(bridge)

We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

 

4th version

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me

(bridge)

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No, they can’t take that away from me

 

From the film Shall We Dance? with fred Astaire