1 click to link to a whole song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix4Cjrd0TUk
Sources indicate year is 1940.
Listen to that young voice of Shore, here, soft as butter, golden as
honey. Yeah, yeah, I know you, you spoiled by Allies use of advanced
magnetic tape technology for recording made possible after the war, as
a crumb recovered from the conquered German science, are used to more
hi-fidelity than this, especially for Shore, but this was the best
possible sound using generation-old recording techniques as late as
1940; certainly the Great Depression was no time to try to introduce,
finance or distribute new types of sound reproduction.
So, more on point, I think this is one of earliest hits of Dinah
Shore, but heh-heh, she would certainly have more, better, and more
significant hits (such as singing Jule Styne's "I'll Walk Alone") in a
couple of years, the kind that helped endear her to the armed forces
in the first flower and era of her stardom.
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