Comments on: Letter 18 http://41loveletters.com/1934/08/27/letter-18/ R. H. Swinney to Ruth Erlanger, 1934 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:57:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: c http://41loveletters.com/1934/08/27/letter-18/#comment-29 c Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:06:36 +0000 http://www.43loveletters.com/1934/08/27/letter-18/#comment-29 I thought we'd footnoted this, but re the song in the first paragraph, it must be "I wish I were twins (so I could love you twice as much)" Music by: Meyer, Joseph. Words by: De Lange, Edgar, and Frank Loesser. P/P/D: New York : Donaldson, Douglas & Gumble Inc., c1934. Most folks who have recorded it just identify it as "I wish I were Twins." Grab a pic of <a href="http://josephmarc.com/files/lbac_0511021a.jpg" rel="nofollow">the sheet music's cover</a> for a sidebar asset. Fats Waller recorded it in 1934. So did Henry Allen and His Orchestra. Caroll Gibbons, Valaida Snow and Coleman Hawkins did it too, but I'm not sure about the year. I suppose Harold could have heard any of these on the radio, or none. Can't find an open source mp3 for inclusion as an asset, sadly. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_in_music" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia considers it to be one of the more popular tunes of 1934</a>. I thought we’d footnoted this, but re the song in the first paragraph, it must be “I wish I were twins (so I could love you twice as much)”

Music by: Meyer, Joseph.
Words by: De Lange, Edgar, and Frank Loesser.
P/P/D: New York : Donaldson, Douglas & Gumble Inc., c1934.

Most folks who have recorded it just identify it as “I wish I were Twins.” Grab a pic of the sheet music’s cover for a sidebar asset.

Fats Waller recorded it in 1934. So did Henry Allen and His Orchestra. Caroll Gibbons, Valaida Snow and Coleman Hawkins did it too, but I’m not sure about the year. I suppose Harold could have heard any of these on the radio, or none. Can’t find an open source mp3 for inclusion as an asset, sadly.

Wikipedia considers it to be one of the more popular tunes of 1934.

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