"Cryin' For the Carolines" (1930) on uke -- Tim Hatcher

One of the most popular and prolific songwriters of the first half of the last century was the amazing Harry Warren (1893-1981), a personal favorite of mine. His long string of #1 hits include: "I Found a Million Dollar Baby", "Forty-Second Street", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "Jeepers Creepers", "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", "At Last" and "I Only Have Eyes for You". He wrote more than 400 songs for close to 90 movies from 1928 through 1981. His Oscar winning compositions include "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe".

Songwriter Sam Lewis (1885-1959) also contributed many well-known songs to the American songbook, including "Dinah", "For All We Know", "Rockaby Your Baby With a Dixie Melody", "Five-Foot-Two, Eyes of Blue" and "My Mammy".

Joe Young (1889-1939) did not have the output of Warren or Lewis, but his well-known works include "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (with Fats Waller), "Lullaby of the Leaves" and "Was That the Human Thing to Do".

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Music

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• ukulele
• Harry
• Warren

[RobertHultman]

Nice song and a good delivery!

[timboytx]

@RobertHultman Glad you liked it, Robert. Thanks very much.  Hope things are going well with you. I enjoy your videos!

[UkesterBrown]

Nice Tim- I liked the syncopated and varied strum techniques.

[timboytx]

@UkesterBrown Thanks, David. It's a fun song to play.

[BaerchenprinzBln]

Great Tim. Very entertaining. A beautiful song. I like it. Never heard the composer´s name. But "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" is by him? "Lullaby of Broadway" ahh, I know that one. I´m reading, while I listen to your song. You have a moustache now. Hm. Interesting. Cheers my friend, André ☺

[timboytx]

@BaerchenprinzBln Thanks, Andre. This was recorded last spring, and the goatee is long gone. Only kept it for a few months. Had never grown one and just had to satisfy my curiosity.

[krabbers]

nice song well done

[timboytx]

@maggiesband Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed it.

[maggiesband]

Great to hear you on uke again - nice performance! We knew some other hits of Harry Warren, but you introduced his and your own talent here in one package. Thank you for this!