I love her dearly. We'll get to them all, generally and specifically. They were usually preceded by episodes of serials, which were invariably cliffhangers. But he always did, amid the shrieking of the audience. Meanwhile, standard Hollywood fare was providing us with hit tune after hit tune, many of them by Harry Warren who, oddly, enough is one of the least known of the really famous composers - Kern, Rodgers, Porter, Berlin et al.
Good songs tell stories.
But the songs are stories in themselves. Even the greatest songwriters couldn't predict when a song was going to be a hit. And then there were the many revivals - the fondest hopes of songwriters realized. On the other hand, some truly stupendous songs came out of movies and shows which were abysmal failures. Over the next eighteen years, eighteen orchestras would hold forth in the lead spot, and no fewer than fifty-two vocalists would take their places as the star singers.