What's the title of that "Gotta get back to Oregon" song that Harry Fox sings in the movie? And who wrote it? My grampa used to sing it to me while bouncing me on his knee. All my life I've wondered what the words were, then suddenly, while watching "The Dolly Sisters" a couple of nights ago, I hear it…Bingo! Suddenly, I'm on grampa's knee again. It was a trip. Anyone have a clue?
Paul
The full title is Arrag Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon and as was often the case in the 1920s/30s it was written by three people, composer Bert Grant and lyricists Sam M Lewis and Joe Young. Lewis and Young often worked together and were responsible for three of Al Jolson's hits, I'm Sitting On Top Of The World, My Mammy and Rock a Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody. They also wrote Dinah and How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm. Lewis also wrote the ballad For All We Know with J. Fred Coots in 1934. Young wrote other well-known (at the time) songs like A Shanty In Old Shanty Town, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter and two with composer Victor Young, A Hundred Years From Today and Street Of Dreams.
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