Gene Austin - My Blue Heaven (1927)

Gene Austin was a popular screen, radio & recording artist during the mid 1920's into the 1930's. He was known as "the voice of the south land" and a pioneer in the "crooning" style of singing. A jazz artist at heart, he was equally at home singing country ballads, blues and spirituals. His improvisational style apparent in his recordings, added a unique flavor to his interpretations.

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Music

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• Musik
• 1920's
• Gene
• Austin
• 1927
• Crooner

[morsetexas]

I was born the year after Gene Austin recorded this song. My family consisted of my father, mother and me. My dad and mother performed this song at home: my father singing, my mother on the piano and banjo. I believe this was the first song I heard and knew, and I first thought the song was about the three of us, although my mother's name wasn't Molly. Later I learned it was a Gene Austin song. This old record is wonderful.

[MrRoryConway]

Such a beautiful song. Always a favorite as a young child. All the grown up's knew it and was sang everywhere. It is a time long gone by. It's such a shame really.

I have a beautiful boat, painted in French Blue, high gloss oil, trimed in vibrant white and considered calling her Blue Heaven. Now after the listening to the timeless voice of Gene Austin, I will.

[Urbino237]

@MrRoryConway Aside from this classic, your boat sounds like one too. Is that colour - French Blue - widely available? Is it a marine-purpose paint, i.e., anti-fungal etc? Sounds like a delicious colour!

[LeahJane1995]

I don't like my generation, the 1920s seemed a lot interesting than the 90's nothing special about it being a 90's girl nothing to say about it that I can actually think of

[cosmokramer1987]

I know it sounds sappy, even though this is a very beautiful and happy song I tear up every time I hear it. Maybe it's the fact that music like this will never like this will be made again. Also even though in the 1920's things were worse such as Racism and Crime during prohibition, but I would much rather live in those times. At least people were decent, society was decent and people looked out for you. Not anymore. I'd rather be 24 in 1927 than 2012. What has society come to? Just my opinion.

[voltape]

@morsetexas You win - I was born in (as recently as) 1935. I'm a kid. I am a Peruvian in Peru but I have a daughter in Houston, TX, who lives there with her husband (from Texas), a boy, a girl, and a pet schnauzer. I too loved that music - I remember playing the 78 rpm in my dad's Victrola in WWII times!

[Garrison446]

My grandparents were about Genes age. They loved this song and it and other songs gave them hope and courage to live through the Great Depression. It all makes me cry.

[jaytlr9]

@morsetexas What a nice memory.

[MegaSirianni]

What wind instrument is playing at the end of the song?

[FunUsernamesAreGone]

I don't know why, but for some reason I enjoy Gene Austin more than Frank Sinatra.

[morsetexas]

I wasn't one of Hal Roach's Little Rascals,known in the 30s as "our Gang", for movie shorts. But my agent got me my only speaking movie role in an Edgar Rice Burroughs movie, "The Lion Man", 1936 at age 7. I checked, and Morse, Texas still has a population of 150. The town gets verrry cold in winter at the top of the Texas Panhandle.