Wednesday, October 4, 2023

"In the Middle of a Kiss" (1935)




Still in 1935, we run into another college picture from Paramount: "College Scandal" starring Arline Judge!

The sheet music art seems at odds with the film's title and indeed, it's more of a murder mystery than a frothy musical!

It did have a hit song, though, "In the Middle of a Kiss," which was sung by Arline and former "Our Gang"-er Johnny Downs, who seems to be in every college movie of the period!

A popular version was waxed for Brunswick by Hal Kamp's band with Skinnay Ennis once again doing the vocal honors:



Love those Kemp/Ennis sides!

Here's a very lovely version by the wonderful Connee Boswell:




I'm not sure what the Columbia/Brunswick/Lucky business is all about!

And Connee and Skinnay hadn't adopted the snazzier versions of their names yet!

Let's hear one more version, this one's a budget label record from Smith Ballew:



I always dig Smith's singing too!

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