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Yes, My Darling Daughter
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Wikipedia article
"'Yes, My Darling Daughter'" is a 1940 song by Jack Lawrence first introduced by Dinah Shore on Eddie Cantor's radio program on October 24, 1940. It was Shore's first solo record, released by Bluebird, and peaked at No. 10 on the 'Billboard' magazine chart.
he music
The music used by Lawrence was borrowed from a Ukrainian folk-song "Oi ne khody, Hrytsju",. The same melody had also been borrowed by Catterino Cavos for his vaudeville 'The Cossack-Poet',"Suchasnist'" magazine - 2006, Issues 7-12 - Page 138 although in the Cavos version it had had an entirely different text: "Yes, of course, he is my lover..." (", , ...").Andrei Sikhra - "Selected Arias from the opera "Cossack-poet" by C.Cavos, St.Petersburg 1827
Musical structure
Israeli musicologist Yakov Soroker posited the end of the first melodic phrase of "Oi ne khody Hrytsiu" contains a "signature" melody common in Ukrainian songs in general which he calls the "Hryts sequence" and gives a list of hundreds of Ukrainian folk songs from the Carpathians to the Kuban that contain this particular sequence. His estimation, after studying Z. Lysko's collection of 9,077 Ukrainian melodies was that 6% of Ukrainian folk songs contain the sequence.Yakov Soroker Ukrainian Elements in Classical Music, CIUS Press, Edmonton-Toronto, 1995 p. 126Other scholars have also addressed the unique character and expressiveness of the Hryts sequence, such as Alexander Serov, who stated that "the refrain exudes a spirit of freedom that transports the listener to the steppes and is mixed with the sorrow of some unexpected tragedy."Alexander Serov, Muzyka Ukrainskyx pesen. Izbrannii stat'i, Moscow and Leningrad 1950, Volume 1, p. 119
Soroker notes the Hryts signature was used by composers Joseph Haydn (String Quartet no. 20, op. 9, no. 2; String quartet no. 25, op. 17, no 1; The Saviour's Seven last Words on the Cross, the Rondo of the D major Piano Concerto [composed 1795], Andante and variations for piano [1793]), Luigi Boccherini (duet no. 2), Wolfgang A. Mozart (Symphonia concertante K. 364), L. van Beethoven, J. N. Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber, Franz Liszt (Ballade d'Ukraine), Felix Petyrek, Ivan Khandoshkin, and others.
Notable recordings
* Benny Goodman with Helen Forrest - recorded December 20, 1940 for Columbia.
* Eydie Gorme reached the No. 10 position in the UK charts in 1962.
* Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (vocal by Marion Hutton). This reached No. 9 on the 'Billboard' charts.
References
Category:1940 songs
Category:Songs with lyrics by Jack Lawrence
Category:Benny Goodman songs
Category:Ukrainian folk songs
Category:Bluebird Records singles
Category:Dinah Shore songs
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