Gene Austin - My Fate Is In Your Hands 1929 Fats Waller on Piano "Will My Skies Be Blue Or Grey?"

Victor (22223) Recorded 11/25/1929 New York, New York.

Fats Waller (composer)
Andy Razaf (lyricist)
Gene Austin (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Leonard W. Joy (director)
Fats Waller (instrumentalist : piano)

Gene Austin (June 24, 1900 – January 24, 1972) was an American singer and songwriter, one of the first "crooners". His recording of "My Blue Heaven" sold over five million copies and was the largest selling record of all time. His 1920s compositions "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" became pop and jazz standards.
Austin was born as Lemeul Eugene Lucas in Gainesville, Texas.
Austin joined the U.S. Army at the age of 15 in hopes of being dispatched to Europe to fight in World War I. He was first stationed in New Orleans, where he played the piano at night in the city's notorious vice district. His familiarity with horses from helping his stepfather in his blacksmithing business also prompted the Army to assign Austin to the cavalry and send him to Mexico with General John Pershing's Pancho Villa Expedition, for which he was awarded the Mexican Service Medal. Thereafter, he served in France in World War I.
Gene Austin was an important pioneer crooner whose records in their day enjoyed record sales and the highest circulation. The Genial Texan ex-vaudevillian and would-be screen idol, Austin constitutes an underrated landmark in popular music history.
Austin retired to Palm Springs in the late 1950s and was active in civic boards there until 1970. Income from his record sales allowed him to live comfortably the rest of his life.
He died in Palm Springs of lung cancer and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
Wanting you is my offence,
You have all the evidence,
Now I wait for you to sentence me!
Must I go or must I stay?
Will my skies be blue or grey?
Are my dreams to be or not to be?
There's no use pretending,
Love needs no defending,
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
You're my judge and jury,
What do you assure me?
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
If the charge is loving you,
Then I'm guilty, dear!
Tell me that you love me too
And I'll have no fear!
It is you I'm needing,
For your love I'm pleading,
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
If the charge is loving you,
Then I'm guilty, dear!
Tell me that you love me too
And I'll have no fear!
It is you I'm needing,
For your love I'm pleading,
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
My fate, honey baby, is in your hands!

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