Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (song)
"Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (also known as "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your Troubles Away)") is a popular song written by Harry Barris with lyrics by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll, published in 1931.
The original 1931 popular hit recording was made by Bing Crosby with the Gus Arnheim Orchestra on March 2, 1931 for Victor Records,{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1a.html|website=BING magazine|publisher=International Club Crosby|accessdate=June 26, 2017}} but the song has become a standard, recorded by many other artists since. Bing Crosby recorded the song four times over his career as well as performing its film debut in the Mack Sennett short, One More Chance (1931). An outtake from one of the sessions recorded on June 9, 1939{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|website=A Bing Crosby Discography|accessdate=September 2, 2015}} was preserved by blooper compiler Kermit Schafer in which Bing has his most famous “blowup” when he continues singing ad-lib and occasionally risqué words perfectly in tune.{{cite web|last1=Macfarlane|first1=Malcolm|title=Bing Crosby - Day by Day|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/Chapter_5.htm#Year_1939|website=BING magazine|accessdate=November 30, 2015}}
{{quotation|“Life’s really funny that way.
Sang the wrong melody
We’ll play it back
See what it sounds like, hey-hey.
“They cut out eight bars,
the dirty bastards.
I didn’t know which eight bars,
he was gonna cut.
Why don’t somebody tell me
these things around here?
Holy Christ, I’m going off my nut.”}}
That outtake was presented in the PBS American Masters episode Bing Crosby Rediscovered.{{cite web |url=http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=50703396 |title=American Masters: Bing Crosby Rediscovered Soundtrack CD - shopPBS.org |website=www.shoppbs.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207210109/http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=50703396 |archive-date=2014-12-07}}
Imogene Coca performed this song in an episode of Your Show of Shows while dressed as a hobo; the audience reaction was so favorable that she encored her version in the last episode of the variety series, making this the only song she performed in two different episodes of Your Show of Shows.
Other notable recordings
- 1931 Louis Armstrong - recorded November 4, 1931 for Okeh Records, catalog No. 41530.{{cite web|title=The Online Discographical Project|url=http://www.78discography.com/OK41500.html|website=78discography.com|accessdate=June 26, 2017}}
- 1931 Mildred Bailey - recorded September 15, 1931 for Brunswick Records (6184).{{cite web|title=The Online Discographical Project|url=http://www.78discography.com/BRN6000.htm|website=78discography.com|accessdate=June 26, 2017}}
- 1942 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra (vocal by Jimmy Mitchelle) - reached the No. 23 position in the Billboard charts in 1942.{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/201 201]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/201}}
- 1946 Georgia Gibbs{{cite web|title=45worlds.com|url=http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/12008|website=45worlds.com|accessdate=June 26, 2017}}
- 1947 Frankie Laine. He also sang it in the film Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952).{{cite web|title=Internet Movie Database|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045068/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd|website=imdb.com|accessdate=June 26, 2017}}
- 1954 Frank Sinatra for his album Swing Easy!{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/swing-easy%21-mw0000849204|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=March 25, 2025}}
- 1958 Dean Martin for his Sleep Warm album.{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sleep-warm-mw0000186071|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=January 11, 2025}}
- 1960 Sue Raney in her Songs for a Raney Day album.{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-for-a-raney-day-mw0001194676|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=March 26, 2025}}
- 1961 Sarah Vaughan - for her album The Divine One.{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-divine-one-roulette--mw0000326189|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=March 27, 2025}}
- 1963 Bill Evans, for his album Interplay.[http://www.allmusic.com/album/interplay-mw0000188120 Bill Evans, Interplay]. Retrieved March 27, 2025.
- 1964 Tony Bennett included in his album Who Can I Turn To.{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/who-can-i-turn-to-mw0000367208|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=March 27, 2025}}
- 1974 Barbra Streisand included in the soundtrack The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording.{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-way-we-were-original-soundtrack-mw0000103300|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=March 26, 2025}}
- 1982 Alberta Hunter in The Glory of Alberta Hunter{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/04/arts/jazz-alberta-hunter-marks-her-87th-birthday-in-action.html|title = Jazz: Alberta Hunter Marks Her 87Th Birthday in Action|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 4 April 1982|last1 = Wilson|first1 = John S.}}
- 2002 June Christy on Cool Christy (2002){{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/10352784-June-Christy-Cool-Christy|website=www.discogs.com|accessdate=April 14, 2025}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/wrapyourtroublesindreams.htm jazzstandards.com]
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Category:Songs about depression
Category:Songs with music by Harry Barris