Leaving the busy Old Ox Road, we run across a "Lonely Lane" in the form of this song from the Warner Brothers picture "College Coach" from 1933!
It's not specifically a college song, but Dick Powell croons the tune as a college football player in the movie.
Dick did get a chance to record the tune for Brunswick Records:
Solid job as always from Mr. Powell!
What's curious to me is that the song seems to have gotten more recordings by British artists at the time. Fair enough, but the movie was re-titled "Football Coach" for England!
Isn't that sort of backwards? Wouldn't British audiences expect a story about soccer?
Although he's featured on the British sheet music, I don't think Ambrose recorded the song.
British bandleader Roy Fox did, however, so here's his band with vocalist Peggy Dell on British Decca:
Very good and I kinda like Peggy Dell! I wonder if she's still hanging around the Kit Kat Restaurant?
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