"Wake Up and Live" (1937)

Staying with "Wake Up and Live" from 1937, the British version of the sheet music for the movie's title song is shown above. 

As I've mentioned, I find the British ones to be interesting, as they often feature different (sometimes better) graphics and sometimes emphasize different things about the movie in question. 

As can be seen, the British sheet music for “Wake Up and Live” spotlights Alice Faye and Jack Haley over Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie. 

My thought is that British audiences may have been familiar with Ben Bernie from his records as a bandleader, but they probably had no idea who Walter Winchell was nor knew about his good-natured radio feud with Mr. Bernie. 

Jack Haley is really the lead in the film anyway, despite being sixth-billed, as the plot revolves around him having an unexpectedly great singing voice. Said voice was courtesy of dubbing from the great Buddy Clark, who at that point was a relatively anonymous radio singer. 

OK, so let’s hear Cab Calloway sing “Wake Up and Live” with his great band on Variety (another Irving Mills label):

 

That song is up Cab’s alley!