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Billy Wynne -The Only Only One (For Me)

2009-03-04 5 Dailymotion

This is yet another almost totally unknown Edison band, Billy Wynne's Greenwich Village Inn Orchestra (actually the flip side of No Wonder (That I Love You) by Charles Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra). No specific information at all could be found about Wynne's band. Its name refers to a club in New York city's Greenwich Village neighborhood, called the Greenwich Village Inn. The song was composed by Italian-American composer and lyricist Harry Warren (first picture). He wrote songs with Al Dubin, Billy Rose, Mack Gordon, Leo Robin, Ira Gershwin and Johnny Mercer. His "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" was the first gold record. Among his hits are "There Will Never Be Another You," "I Only Have Eyes for You," "42nd Street," "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're In The Money)," "Young and Healthy," "Lullaby of Broadway," "Serenade in Blue," "At Last," "Jeepers Creepers" and "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me". Warren is particularly remembered for writing scores for the films of Busby Berkeley. The musical 42nd Street showcases his spectacularly popular songs from these films. Warren won the Oscar for Best Song with three collaborating lyricists: "Lullaby of Broadway" with Al Dubin in 1935, "You'll Never Know" with Mack Gordon in 1943, and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" with Johnny Mercer in 1946. As for this record, it was made in 1925. Personnel is unknown.