I've Got The World On A String-Nancy Harms

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Series: Minnesota Voices- Certain Standards with Arne Fogel
Length: 03:32

Minnesota Voices Certain Standards features Nancy Harms on a Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song entitled "I've Got The World On A String". Arne Fogel also gives the background of the song. (Week 10-Day 2 when used in a series) Read the full description.

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Playing: I've Got The World On A String-Nancy Harms
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In their book “America’s Songs”, authors Phillip Furia and Michael Lasser call it, (quote), “one of the most aggressively cheerful songs to come out of America’s most dismal decade”. The “dismal decade” was the 1930s, the period of The Great Depression. Songs were the means by which Americans were encouraged to try and forget their troubles, if only for a short time, and tunesmiths Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, who had previously written a song containing the line “forget your troubles and just get happy”, now tried to sell the public on the notion that, by simply being in love, one can literally feel as though he has the “world on a string”…. The song popularized on the radio and in best-selling recordings by Cab Calloway and Bing Crosby. Then, for 20 years, the song lay relatively dormant, until Frank Sinatra, newly signed to Capitol records, was looking for material to help re-launch his legendary 1950s comeback. What he found was “I’ve Got The World On A String”, and once again, this song helped to alleviate a great depression: this time, it was frank Siinatra’s! – Here to sing it is Minnesota’s Voice, Nancy Harms.

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In their book “America’s Songs”, authors Phillip Furia and Michael Lasser call it, (quote), “one of the most aggressively cheerful songs to come out of America’s most dismal decade”. The “dismal decade” was the 1930s, the period of The Great Depression. Songs were the means by which Americans were encouraged to try and forget their troubles, if only for a short time, and tunesmiths Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, who had previously written a song containing the line “forget your troubles and just get happy”, now tried to sell the public on the notion that, by simply being in love, one can literally feel as though he has the “world on a string”…. The song popularized on the radio and in best-selling recordings by Cab Calloway and Bing Crosby. Then, for 20 years, the song lay relatively dormant, until Frank Sinatra, newly signed to Capitol records, was looking for material to help re-launch his legendary 1950s comeback. What he found was “I’ve Got The World On A String”, and once again, this song helped to alleviate a great depression: this time, it was frank Siinatra’s! – Here to sing it is Minnesota’s Voice, Nancy Harms.