A beautiful song that was originally intended for an operatic treatment was fated instead to become a jazz standard, simply by the nature of it’s manner of introduction to the public…. Written for the 1935 Marx Brothers’ motion picture classic “A Night At The Opera”, this composition would no doubt have been introduced by one of The Marx’s opera-singing co-stars,  Allan Jones or Kitty Carlisle;  it would be remembered only for it’s appearance in the film, and that’d be it. However, the song was cut from the film, and lay dormant for fifteen years, until it was dusted off and interpolated into a low budget MGM drama with music called “The Strip”, in 1951. Performed this time around by Louis Armstrong, the Bert Kalmar-Harry Ruby-Oscar Hammerstein song “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” became an Armstrong standard! One of the few times a popular song ever directly benefited from being cut from a Hollywood film! Here’s Minnesota’s Voice Nancy Harms to 

A beautiful song that was originally intended for an operatic treatment was fated instead to become a jazz standard, simply by the nature of it’s manner of introduction to the public…. Written for the 1935 Marx Brothers’ motion picture classic “A Night At The Opera”, this composition would no doubt have been introduced by one of The Marx’s opera-singing co-stars,  Allan Jones or Kitty Carlisle;  it would be remembered only for it’s appearance in the film, and that’d be it. However, the song was cut from the film, and lay dormant for fifteen years, until it was dusted off and interpolated into a low budget MGM drama with music called “The Strip”, in 1951. Performed this time around by Louis Armstrong, the Bert Kalmar-Harry Ruby-Oscar Hammerstein song “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” became an Armstrong standard! One of the few times a popular song ever directly benefited from being cut from a Hollywood film! Here’s Minnesota’s Voice Nancy Harms to