| "Some of These Days" | |
 1910 sheet music cover |
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| Music by | Shelton Brooks |
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| Published | 1910 |
| Form | Jazz standard |
| Original artist | Sophie Tucker |
"Some of These Days" is a popular song published in 1910.
Originally written and composed by Shelton Brooks for the “Last of the Red-Hot Mamas”, the song became a signature song for Sophie Tucker, who made the first of her several recordings of it in 1911. Ted Lewis and his band backed Sophie Tucker on her classic, million-selling 1926 recording that stayed in the #1 position on the charts for five weeks beginning November 23, 1926, and re-affirmed her lasting association with the song.[1]
The song has been recorded many other artists, including notable versions by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Bobby Darin, Sue Raney, Andrew Bird, Elkie Brooks, Judy Garland and Serena Ryder.
Ella Fitzgerald recorded this song on the CBS release "Ella Fitzgerald at The Newport Jazz Festival Live at Carnegie Hall".
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Appearances in film
- Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi perform the song in the film All That Jazz (1979).
- Cab Calloway's recording appears on the soundtrack of Forbidden Zone (1980), with Oingo Boingo member Gene Cunningham in the role of Papa Hercules lip synching Calloway's vocals.
Appearances in fiction
- The song, or a particular recording of it, is a recurrent theme in Jean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel Nausea.
References
- ^ CD liner notes: Chart-Toppers of the Twenties, 1998 ASV Ltd.
See also
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