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Word: bei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheet music Hold Tight sold 100,000 copies, in orchestrations 10,000. The Andrews Sisters' recording sold 150,000, 20,000 more than their Bei Mir Bist Du Schön for same period. It reached fourth place in the Hit Parade. This week, just as the radio got wise, the Fishery Council New York and Middle-Atlantic Area Inc. decided to adopt Hold Tight as its theme song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hold Barred | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

GERHARD PAETZOLD Hauptmann-Loepev Strasse 76 Neue-Schleuse, bei Rathenow, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Kammen Music Co. published a song entitled Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, from a Jewish musical comedy (I Would If I Could) by Sholom Secunda and Jacob Jacobs. The song went practically unnoticed until last summer Johnny & George, a Negro piano team, played it at a Jewish summer resort in New York's borsch belt, then brought it to a Broadway night club. There it was heard by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn, two East Side boys who had written Posin', Shoe Shine Boy, Rhythm Is Our Business, could recognize a song when they heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hebrew Hit | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...even before Harms could get the song printed, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (You Look Beautiful to Me) had become a hit. Decca had two records out: the Andrews Sisters', which had already sold 10,000 copies, and Glen Gray's. Brunswick had released a Russ Morgan version, and at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre the crowd called for four encores the first time Morgan played it. Victor had Guy Lombardo's recording of the song ready this week in time to be put on sale with the sheet music. First day's sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hebrew Hit | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Germany the man with the little moustache is still building up national spirit for his next excursion in imperialism. Der Fuehrer has ordered photographers to refuse to photograph all family groups with less than four children, and has banned Sinclair Lewis' well-known best seller--"Das Ist Bei Uns Nicht Moeglich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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