NORA BAYES

La prohibición  del consumo de alcohol en los Estados Unidos llegó en 1920 con la conocida Volstead Act . . Instigada por los sectores más puritanos de la sociedad americana  . Entró  en vigor a medianoche del 17 de enero de 1920 y apenas una hora más tarde ya se hacían las primeras incautaciones. Lejos de cumplir sus expectativas , la ley sirvió para que proliferasen las mafias , distribuciones clandestinas etc.etc. Crecieron de forma súbita los clubs "ilegales" donde se tocaba Blues y se bebía alcohol sin trabas . Una muestra de cuanto decimos es esta composición creada al efecto PROHIBITION BLUES , compuesta por Ring Lardner y  NORA BAYES, actriz polifcética de la cual os ofrecemos su bío y el tema del que os hablamos interpretado por ella misma. Significamos que existen composiciones distintas con este mismo título . 

                   

What ails you brown man

What makes you frown man

I asked my man so miserable

You look so winning

When you is grinning

With all them gold teeth visible

But now you's always threatning

To bust right out and cry

Does yo' dogs fret you?

What has upset you

Then he made his reply

I've had news that's bad news about my best pal

His name is Old Man Alcohol

But i call him Al

The doctors say he's dying

As sure as sure can be

And if that's so

Then oh, oh, oh

The difference to me

There won't be no sunshine

No stars no moon

No laughter no music

'Cept this one sad tune

Goodbye forever to my old friend Booze

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¿Qué te pasa hombre moreno?

¿Qué te hace fruncir el ceño?

Le pregunté a mi hombre tan miserable

Te ves tan ganador

Cuando estas sonriendo

Con todos esos dientes de oro visibles

Pero ahora siempre estás amenazando

Para reventar y llorar

¿Tus perros te inquietan?

Lo que te ha molestado

Luego hizo su respuesta

He tenido noticias que son malas noticias sobre mi mejor amigo

Se llama Old Man Alcohol

Pero yo lo llamo Al

Los doctores dicen que se está muriendo.

Tan seguro como seguro puede ser

Y si eso es así

Entonces oh, oh, oh

La diferencia para mi

No habrá sol

Sin estrellas no hay luna

Sin risas no hay música

Cept esta triste canción

Adiós para siempre a mi viejo amigo Booze 

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Nora Bayes (born Rachel Eleanora Goldberg, October 3, 1880 – March 19, 1928) was an American singer, comedian, actress and vaudeville star of the early 20th century.

Born to Elias David and Rachel (née Miller) Goldberg, in an orthodox Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois. She had a brother, Hugo, and a sister, Lillie (Mrs. Cerf Meyer). Bayes was performing professionally in vaudeville in Chicago by age 18. She toured from San Francisco, California to New York City and became a star both on the vaudeville circuit and the Broadway stage.

In 1908, she married singer-songwriter Jack Norworth. The two toured together and were credited for collaborating on a number of compositions, including the immensely popular "Shine On, Harvest Moon", which the pair debuted in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1908. Bayes and Norworth divorced in 1913.

Nora Bayes on the cover of a 1917 sheet music of Over There

After America entered World War I, Bayes became involved with morale boosting activities. George M. Cohan asked that she be the first to record a performance of his patriotic song "Over There". Her recording was released in 1917 and became an international hit. She also performed shows for the soldiers. In 1919, she recorded "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?" for Columbia which became a hit for that year.

Bayes made many phonograph records (some with Norworth) for the Victor and Columbia labels. From 1924 to 1928, her accompanist was pianist Louis Alter. One of her most popular recordings was "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?". In her version, she cheekily poked fun at her position as a Jewish performer doing Irish songs by "mistakenly" singing "Has anybody here seen Levi ... I mean Kelly."

Bayes established her own theater, The Nora Bayes Theater, on West 44th Street in New York.

Marriages and family

Bayes married five times. Her first husband was Otto Gressing, and Norworth was her second. Husband number three was a dancer named Harry Clarke, who also performed with her in vaudeville. Husband number four was New York business man Arthur Gordoni. Her fifth and last husband was Benjamin Friedland, a New York City businessman and garage owner.

Bayes bore no biological children in any of her marriages. However, she adopted three children. The oldest was Norman Bayes, adopted by Bayes and Gordoni in March 1918. Bayes' second adopted child was a daughter named Lea Nora, adopted on July 25, 1919. Her third adopted child was Peter Oxley Bayes, born March 9, 1921 in London and adopted on October 16, 1923.

Death

In early 1928, Nora Bayes was diagnosed with cancer, and she died on March 28, 1928 following surgery at Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. After 18 years in a receiving vault, her body was buried with her fifth husband, Benjamin Lester Friedland, in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.The burial arrangements for Bayes and Friedland were arranged by Friedland's second wife, who left the graves unmarked in 1946. In a ceremony on April 21, 2018, a grave marker was finally placed on Nora Bayes' graveat a public event.

On April 11, 2006, under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, Nora Bayes was added to the National Recording Registry. The citation stated that she was

Inextricably associated in popular imagination with World War I ... a former member of the Ziegfeld Follies, an extremely popular vaudevillian and a Broadway star, she recorded a number of other songs to boost morale during the war and performed extensively for the soldiers.

Pop culture

Shine On, Harvest Moon

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1909 Edison Records recording of Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes' 1908 hit Shine On, Harvest Moon with Ada Jones and Billy Murray

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Bayes was portrayed by Ann Sheridan in the largely fictionalized 1944 musical biopic Shine On, Harvest Moon, which focused on her relationship with Norworth. She was also portrayed by Frances Langford in the 1942 movie Yankee Doodle Dandy, where she performs George M. Cohan's song "Over There

The 1980 Garson Kanin novel Smash is about an attempt to make a Broadway musical out of Nora Bayes' life.The novel serves as the inspiration for the 2012 television series Smash, although the subject of the show's fictional musical is not Bayes but Marilyn Monroe.

She is mentioned in the 1939 film The Roaring Twenties.