Arthur Fields
"Hong Kong--The Chinese Love Song"
Edison Blue Amberol 3238
1917
Song by Richard W. Pascoe, Hans Von Holstein, and Alma M. Sanders
This song was played by some "jass" bands in 1917.
There are many Oriental places down in Chinatown.
There are many Oriental faces with almond eyes
of brown in a tiny little Chinese toy bazaar where
the funny red and yellow lanterns are.
There's a boy from old Hong Kong,
and he sings the whole night long:
Hong Kong, Hong Kong--there's no other
place like Hong Kong, where Oriental
lights are gleaming and pretty Chinese girls
are dreaming. So long, so long! I'll go back
where I belong in that land of rice and tea.
Soon upon my honeymoon I'll be.
I'll obey my heart and start for Hong Kong.
Come with me. Oh, come with me tomorrow
when the lights are dim. See Ong Fong--
his heart is full of sorrow. You'll long to
comfort him. Every night he'll light his
pipe in Hoppyland. On a dreamy boat he'll
float to Poppyland. Oh, I know your tears
he'll bring when you hear him softly sing:
Born Abe Finkelstein in Philadelphia to Mortimer and Elizabeth Finkelstein, Arthur Fields (6 August 1888 - 29 March 1953) spent early years in Utica, New York, singing solos as a boy in church.
He was a professional entertainer by age 11 or so, singing illustrated songs (as the singer performed, colored slides with images related to a song's theme were projected on a screen) with Ray Walker at Wackie's Theater at Coney Island. Around age 17 he toured with the Guy Brothers Minstrel Show.
His friend George Graff, the successful lyricist, wrote to Jim Walsh in 1953, "Around 1907-08 [Fields] helped form a vaudeville act--Weston, Fields and Carroll--one of the earliest, and possibly the first, Rathskeller acts."
Born on November 28, 1892, Harry Carroll was four years younger than Fields. The first genuine hit of Fields the songwriter was "On The Mississippi." He wrote the music in 1912 with Carroll; Ballard MacDonald supplied lyrics. It was recorded by the American Quartet for Victor 17237, Billy Murray for Blue Amberol 1637, Collins and Harlan for Columbia A1293, and Prince's Orchestra for Columbia A1307.
Fields sometimes composed music and other times provided lyrics to music written by others. In 1914 he supplied lyrics for "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (music by Walter Donovan), his most popular song. It was revived in the 1950 MGM film Two Weeks With Love, soon followed by the release of a popular Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter MGM record (30282), and Fields earned around $10,000 in royalty fees in 1951. The song was first popularized on records made in late 1914 by Collins and Harlan (Victor 17620, Edison Diamond Disc 50192, Blue Amberol 2468).
Another hit for Collins and Harlan was a Theodore Morse tune with lyrics provided by Fields: "Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner." Versions cut by the duo for Victor, Columbia, and Edison sold well.
"Hong Kong--The Chinese Love Song"
Edison Blue Amberol 3238
1917
Song by Richard W. Pascoe, Hans Von Holstein, and Alma M. Sanders
This song was played by some "jass" bands in 1917.
There are many Oriental places down in Chinatown.
There are many Oriental faces with almond eyes
of brown in a tiny little Chinese toy bazaar where
the funny red and yellow lanterns are.
There's a boy from old Hong Kong,
and he sings the whole night long:
Hong Kong, Hong Kong--there's no other
place like Hong Kong, where Oriental
lights are gleaming and pretty Chinese girls
are dreaming. So long, so long! I'll go back
where I belong in that land of rice and tea.
Soon upon my honeymoon I'll be.
I'll obey my heart and start for Hong Kong.
Come with me. Oh, come with me tomorrow
when the lights are dim. See Ong Fong--
his heart is full of sorrow. You'll long to
comfort him. Every night he'll light his
pipe in Hoppyland. On a dreamy boat he'll
float to Poppyland. Oh, I know your tears
he'll bring when you hear him softly sing:
Born Abe Finkelstein in Philadelphia to Mortimer and Elizabeth Finkelstein, Arthur Fields (6 August 1888 - 29 March 1953) spent early years in Utica, New York, singing solos as a boy in church.
He was a professional entertainer by age 11 or so, singing illustrated songs (as the singer performed, colored slides with images related to a song's theme were projected on a screen) with Ray Walker at Wackie's Theater at Coney Island. Around age 17 he toured with the Guy Brothers Minstrel Show.
His friend George Graff, the successful lyricist, wrote to Jim Walsh in 1953, "Around 1907-08 [Fields] helped form a vaudeville act--Weston, Fields and Carroll--one of the earliest, and possibly the first, Rathskeller acts."
Born on November 28, 1892, Harry Carroll was four years younger than Fields. The first genuine hit of Fields the songwriter was "On The Mississippi." He wrote the music in 1912 with Carroll; Ballard MacDonald supplied lyrics. It was recorded by the American Quartet for Victor 17237, Billy Murray for Blue Amberol 1637, Collins and Harlan for Columbia A1293, and Prince's Orchestra for Columbia A1307.
Fields sometimes composed music and other times provided lyrics to music written by others. In 1914 he supplied lyrics for "Aba Daba Honeymoon" (music by Walter Donovan), his most popular song. It was revived in the 1950 MGM film Two Weeks With Love, soon followed by the release of a popular Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter MGM record (30282), and Fields earned around $10,000 in royalty fees in 1951. The song was first popularized on records made in late 1914 by Collins and Harlan (Victor 17620, Edison Diamond Disc 50192, Blue Amberol 2468).
Another hit for Collins and Harlan was a Theodore Morse tune with lyrics provided by Fields: "Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner." Versions cut by the duo for Victor, Columbia, and Edison sold well.
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