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When You're All Dressed Up And No Place To Go 1914

When the lights shine bright o'er the town at night,And it's laughter, wine, and song,Life is one delight if you stand in rightBut it's fierce when you stand in wrong.Though your soul may cry for the life on high,And your coin you would gladly blow,'Tis a bitter cup to be all dressed upWhen you've no place at all to go.When you're all dressed up and no place to go,Life seems weary, dreary, and slow.My heart has ached and bled for the tears I've shed,When I've no place to go unless I went back to bed.https://youtu.be/nRiZpOi9dVU

Ben Gemmingen ● 2070d5 Comments

Ah – Billy Murray.  Interesting if rare call, Ben.  Wonderful voice.  I love all this period stuff..Try Ted Yorke AKA Jack Charman.Or even (20 years later) Al Bowlly..  I collect 30's...

Stuart Kerr ● 2070d

I thought if anyone was going to appreciate it,it'd be you.I've only just come across it.Yes ,a great voice and an apt song for these times.And to think what lay ahead for Billy and his generation..I've had a listen..'Hello Old What's a name' ,great stuff,thanks.

Ben Gemmingen ● 2070d

Thanks for that, Ben - both singer and song completely new to me, so a real treat.Curiously, both the style of the tune and the melancholia of the lyrics together brought to mind two rather different songs.The first is well-known and sublime recording by Paul Robeson of "My Old Kentucky Home":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yQu0sFykbwI'm afraid Foster (songwriter) would never get away with some of those lyrics today, but he still wrote some of the greatest melodies in the history of popular song (imo).The second is the Australian Slim Dusty's "The Pub With No Beer":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cKPchRDaVMHardly so profound as the other two, but equally heart-felt nonetheless!

Richard Cathcart ● 2070d

The Number One Song in America 90 years ago.February 14, 1931 – March 20, 1931Ted Lewis – Just A GigoloMarlene Dietrich sang it in the film by the same name starring David Bowie in 1978.Even the Village People had a go at it!

Marlene Plimley ● 2070d

You're welcome Richard.I thought there must be a song with that expression in it and I found that.Paul Robeson ,an honorary Welshman and man of many talents.Slim Dusty's ditty is great and sort of relevant as well except alas, ours all bleedin' shut !

Ben Gemmingen ● 2070d