"There's a Lull in My Life" (1937)

Up next is another 20th Century Fox movie with Alice Faye, but she takes a back seat in 1937’s “Wake Up and Live” to Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie, as the movie exploits their then-current radio feud.

 Alice actually did get a chance to record the songs from the movie and we’ll get to her, but let’s start with this recording of “There’s a Lull in My Life” by Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra with vocalist Ivie Anderson on Irving Mills’s short-lived Master label:

Duke composed so many brilliant pieces for his band that it’s easy to forget that they sometimes recorded pop songs, but they always sound terrific!