Sunday, March 5, 2023

"You Turned the Tables on Me" (1936)

It seems like time for a song from a movie featuring another wacky comedy team, so here’s “You Turned the Tables on Me” from the 1936 Fox film “Sing, Baby, Sing,” which marked the feature debut of the Ritz Brothers! 

I hear/read all the time that modern audiences don’t like the Ritz Brothers, which I understand, but I enjoy them. Of course, I have a fondness for shticky comedy teams, so don’t go by me! 

In any event, the wonderful Alice Faye (future wife of Phil Harris) introduced “You Turned the Tables on Me” in the movie, but she didn’t commercially record the song. 

But it did get a lot of recordings, none better than this hit version by Benny Goodman’s band with Helen Ward:

 

Granted that we’re a couple of years beyond the last few hotel-type bands we’ve been hearing, but BG and the boys sound light years ahead!

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