Waring's Pennsylvanians - I Found a Million Dollar Baby, 1931

Waring’s Pennsylvanians – I Found A Million Dollar Baby, Fox-Trot (Rose, Dickson – Warren) with Clare Hanlon and Three Waring Girls & Chorus, Victor 1931 (USA)

NOTE: Fred WARING was born in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, in 1900, he led his dance-based banjo band at 18; the played at the family or fraternity parties, achieving a local success. Fred attended Penn State, where he studied architectural engineering. Duing his college years he formed a professional dance band Fred Waring's Collegians, who ultimately became the Pennsylvanians, based in Detroit. The band became so popular, thar Waring decided to abandon his education and toured with the band, which eventually became known as Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians. They recorded extensively for Victor during the '20s and became one od best selling Victor dance bands during the Roaring Twenties decade. He also performed on radio, in 1933 Fred Waring’s recording of the hit "You Gotta Be a Football Hero" was performed on radio to a great nationwide acclaim. The band appeared in a film with Dick Powell in 1937, were at the 1940 World's Fair, played on Broadway in 1945, then in a cartoon film in 1948. They became the first band to land their own tv show in 1949. In 1982 Waring received a Congressional Gold Medal for his contributions to American music. He continued to perform until his death in 1984.

The Harry Warren’s song “I Found a Million Dollar Baby” was introduced in the Broadway musical Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt, which opened in May, 1931, where it was sung by Fanny Brice. It became a huge hit in the 1930s and is still performed today. The song was used in the biographical 1987 miniseries “Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story” about the life of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. The film starred Farrah Fawcett who portrayed Barbara Hutton from her young adulthood until her death in 1979, portraying also a series of her unhappy marriages. As a slideshow to this movie I therefore selected a collection of American Million Dollar Babies of the 1st decades of the 20th Century (- including Barbara Hutton, ofcourse).

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