When I Take my Sugar To Tea
During my youth, I developed a secret love affair. A love affair (besides for tea) that has endured until this day and one that my partner definitely approves of! At the age of about 18, I was exposed to the music of the 30’s and 40’s by a dear friend. Until that time, I had only experienced a very brief smattering of music outside of Lawrence Welk and my father who whistled all the time. At about 21 I became obsessed with the Andrew’s sisters. Little did I know that the swing era was about to become popular again with America’s youth.
I found every song that they recorded, all the sheet music eBay could offer up on a short note and a slim buck and headed out on a journey that is still blooming today. As I searched and learned more about these amazing women, I found that they gained their singing style and inspiration from The Boswell Sisters (Vet, Connie and Martha). So my search for these lovely ladies and the tunes they crooned began. It is amazing to listen to recordings of these phenomenal women from the 30’s. One of my all time favorites that they sang is When I take My Sugar To Tea. Besides it being about love and tea (my other obsession), it is a very catchy tune. It was written in 1931 by by Sammy Fain , Irving Kahal and Pierre Norman. This along with Dinah were the sisters first hits!
The lyrics are below and here is a link to a midi file of one of their other great songs. Be sure to check out the Boswell Museum while you stroll down memory lane. And this Valentine’s Day be sure to treat your sugar with tea, tea from SBSteas.com that is!
Written by Sammy Fain , Irving Kahal and Pierre Norman
1931
I'm just a little "Jackie Horner"
since I met my sugar cane.
That gang of mine has been revealin'
that they're feelin' sore.
I left the lamp light on the corner,
for the moon in lover's lane.
I'm doing things I never did before.
When I take my sugar to tea, all the
boys are jealous of me, 'cause I
never take her where the gang goes,
When I take my sugar to tea.
I'm a rowdy dowdy, that's me,
She's a high hat baby, that's she,
So I never take her where the gang goes,
When I take my sugar to tea.
Ev'ry Sunday afternoon,
we forget about our cares,
rubbing elbows at the Ritz,
with those millionaires.
When I take my sugar to tea,
I'm as Ritzy as can be,
'cause I never take her where the gang goes,
When I take my sugar to tea.
I found every song that they recorded, all the sheet music eBay could offer up on a short note and a slim buck and headed out on a journey that is still blooming today. As I searched and learned more about these amazing women, I found that they gained their singing style and inspiration from The Boswell Sisters (Vet, Connie and Martha). So my search for these lovely ladies and the tunes they crooned began. It is amazing to listen to recordings of these phenomenal women from the 30’s. One of my all time favorites that they sang is When I take My Sugar To Tea. Besides it being about love and tea (my other obsession), it is a very catchy tune. It was written in 1931 by by Sammy Fain , Irving Kahal and Pierre Norman. This along with Dinah were the sisters first hits!
The lyrics are below and here is a link to a midi file of one of their other great songs. Be sure to check out the Boswell Museum while you stroll down memory lane. And this Valentine’s Day be sure to treat your sugar with tea, tea from SBSteas.com that is!
Written by Sammy Fain , Irving Kahal and Pierre Norman
1931
I'm just a little "Jackie Horner"
since I met my sugar cane.
That gang of mine has been revealin'
that they're feelin' sore.
I left the lamp light on the corner,
for the moon in lover's lane.
I'm doing things I never did before.
When I take my sugar to tea, all the
boys are jealous of me, 'cause I
never take her where the gang goes,
When I take my sugar to tea.
I'm a rowdy dowdy, that's me,
She's a high hat baby, that's she,
So I never take her where the gang goes,
When I take my sugar to tea.
Ev'ry Sunday afternoon,
we forget about our cares,
rubbing elbows at the Ritz,
with those millionaires.
When I take my sugar to tea,
I'm as Ritzy as can be,
'cause I never take her where the gang goes,
When I take my sugar to tea.
posted by Lady Babs at Saturday, January 21, 2006
1 Comments:
We love swing music as well! We used to go to Hangar Dances! Before my back deserted me! It was held in big aircraft hangars and there would be big WWII planes about. The COnfederate Airforce put them on every year in Pittsburgh! I loved going and 2 stepping with my hubber! We got all in costume for it as well. My hubby as an infantryman and me as a WAC. I couldn't fit into that old uniform now!
There is a club here in CHarleston called Jitterbugs! I hope when my pump is implanted we get to go dancing again!
I do love the Andrew Sisters. My mother sang in USO road shows during the war, my father was in Luzon, the pacific theater.
Nice to see that someone else is out of time with me!
Blessings!
Rose
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