Edith Clifford - Learning How to Love

Описание: Learning How to Love

Performed by Edith Clifford vocal; ? piano

Columbia 664-D

Originally recorded May 12, 1926

I don't have any biographical information on Edith Clifford. All I know is that she recorded 21 released sides for Columbia from 1926 through 1928. The recordings were made in New York, Sydney and London. Much of her material was novelty songs with titles like "Why Do They Call Them Flappers?" and "Go Wash an Elephant". There was a sword swallower of the same name in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but I'm sure this isn't the same person.

The record label attributes "Learning How to Love" to Rose, Brown and Henderson. These are almost certainly Billy Rose, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson. These three also co-wrote "Don't Bring Lulu".

Brown and Henderson collaborated on a huge number of songs, usually with B.G. DeSylva. Their works include "The Best Things in Life Are Free"; "The Birth of the Blues"; "Black Bottom"; "(Here Am I) Broken Hearted"; "Don't Hold Everything"; "Good News"; "If I Had a Talking Picture of You"; "I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All?"; "I'm on the Crest of a Wave"; "It All Depends on You"; "I Want to Be Bad"; "Lucky Day"; "My Sin"; "Sonny Boy"; "Sunny Side Up"; "Thank Your Father"; "Turn on the Heat"; "The Varsity Drag"; "Why Did I Kiss That Girl?"; "You're the Cream in My Coffee"; and "You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?"

Without Brown, Rose and Henderson collaborated on "If I Had a Girl Like You" and "That Old Gang of Mine".

Rose was a prolific songwriter whose other works include "Back in Your Own Back Yard"; "Barney Google"; "Building a Nest for Mary"; "Cheerful Little Earful"; "Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!"; "Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love"; "A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You"; "Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Over Night?"; "Fifty Million Frenchmen (Can't Be Wrong)"; "Happy Days and Lonely Nights"; "Here Comes the Show Boat"; "I'd Rather Be Blue Over You (Than Be Happy With Somebody Else)"; "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)"; "If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain)"; "It's Only a Paper Moon"; "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling"; "Me and My Shadow"; "Poor Papa"; "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"; "When the Morning Glories Wake up in the Morning"; "You Tell Her, I S-T-U-T-T-E-R"; and "You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mamma at All)".

With other songwriters, Brown co-wrote "Beer Barrel Polka"; "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)"; "I've Got the Yes We Have No Bananas Blues"; "Last Night on the Back Porch (I Loved Her Best of All)"; "Oh, by Jingo! Oh, by Gee! (You're the Only Girl for Me)"; "One More Time"; "One Sweet Letter from You"; "Shine"; and "When It's Night Time in Italy, It's Wednesday Over Here", while Henderson co-wrote "Animal Crackers in My Soup"; "Bye, Bye Blackbird"; "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl)"; and "I'm Sitting on Top of the World".

I don't know of any other recordings of "Learning How to Love".