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Rating: There are songs that are part of the cultural background of many.
Catchy tunes, POP songs that fully embrace the definition to survive eternally beyond any temporal boundaries. Who hasn't heard "Mr Sandman", the immortal jewel of the style called "Barber Shop" born in barbershops in the early 1900s in the southern United States.
Published in '54 and performed by the vocal quartet The Chordettes, four girls from Wisconsin who, in those years of McCarthy-divided America and the Korean War, sang of naive hopes, conquests of love, and dreams to fulfill.
The "Mr Sandman" of the title is an Anglo-Saxon mythological figure, a dream maker. The vocal harmony, hopeful lyrics, and the delicacy of the melody made this song a tremendous hit at the time of its release so much so that director Robert Zemeckis in his "Back To The Future" cannot resist placing it in the jukebox of the Hill Valley cafeteria in '55.
The group would continue four years later by recording another evergreen must, "Lollipop".
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Mr. Sandman (02:22)
(scat "bung, bung, bung, bung" 26 bungs in all)
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Make him the cutest that I’ve ever seen (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Give him two lips like roses and clover (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.
Sandman, I’m so alone
Don’t have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.
(scat "bung, bung, bung, bung".)
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
Make him the cutest that I’ve ever seen
Give him the word that I’m not a rover
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.
Sandman, I’m so alone
Don’t have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.
(scat "bung, bung, bung, bung")
Mr. Sandman (male voice: "Yesss?") bring us a dream
Give him a pair of eyes with a "come-hither" gleam
Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci
And lots of wavy hair like Liberace
Mr Sandman, someone to hold (someone to hold)
Would be so peachy before we’re too old
So please turn on your magic beam
Mr Sandman, bring us, please, please, please
Mr Sandman, bring us a dream.
(scat "bung, bung, bung, bung".)
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