Songs Stormé Sang In Her Teens

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These are the songs I could document Stormé singing in public before she left home. It's certainly only a partial list of what she was singing, but I love having it, so I'm sharing it with you.

 

As far as I know, there are no extant recordings of Stormé singing any of these songs, but you can listen to renditions by other artists on my youtube playlist here.

 

"Alice Blue Gown", Joseph McCarthy & Harry Tierney, 1919

 

"Angels of Mercy", Irving Berlin, 1941

 

"Basin Street Blues", Spencer Williams, 1928

 

"Blues in the Night", Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer, 1941

 

"I Love You Truly", Carrie Jacobs Bond, 1901

 

"Memphis Blues", W. C. Handy, September 1912

 

"My Wild Irish Rose", Chauncey Olcott, 1899

 

"Old Man River", Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, 1927

 

"Stardust", Hoagy Carmichael, 1927

 

"The Green Cathedral", Carl Hahn, 1921

 

"The Lord's Prayer", Albert Hay Malotte, 1935

 

"White Cliffs of Dover", Walter Kent and Nat Burton, 1941

 

"Yours" (This is the English translation of Quiéreme Mucho, Gonzalo Roig, Ramón Gollury, & Agustín Rodríguez, 1911. English lyrics by Albert Gamse & Jack Sherr, published in 1931)