Lucky Lindy!

This article is about the 1927 song. For other uses, see Lucky Lindy (disambiguation).
"Lucky Lindy"
"Lucky Lindy!" sheet music cover
Song
Published1927
Songwriter(s)Composer: Abel Baer
Lyricist: L. Wolfe Gilbert

"Lucky Lindy!" is a fox-trot song composed by Abel Baer, with lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert. It was published by Harmony in 1927.[1] The song was the first to celebrate Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis and his landing in Paris.[2] Hundreds more followed.[3]

The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.

Lyrics

The piece was "Dedicated to the mother of 'Lucky Lindy'" and the sheet music describes it as a "Fox-Trot Song."[4] Glibert's lyrics, as printed in the sheet music, are as follows:

From coast to coast we all can boast
And sing a toast to one
Who's made a name, for being game.
He was born with wings as great
As any bird that flies,
A lucky star guides him afar.

CHORUS:
"Lucky Lindy," up in the sky
Fair or windy,
He's flying high
Peerless, fearless, knows ev'ry cloud,
The kind of a son makes a mother feel proud
"Plucky Lindy" rides all alone
In a little plane all his own;
"Lucky Lindy" showed them the way
And he's the hero of the day!

Just like a child he simply smiled
While we were wild with fear,
This Yankee lad, the world went mad.
Ev'rywhere they prayed for him
To safely cross the sea,
And he arrived in Gay Paree!

CHORUS (repeated):
"Lucky Lindy," up in the sky
Fair or windy,
He's flying high
Peerless, fearless, knows ev'ry cloud,
The kind of a son makes a mother feel proud
"Plucky Lindy" rides all alone
In a little plane all his own;
"Lucky Lindy" showed them the way
And he's the hero of the day!

References

  1. ^ Baer, Abel, L W. Gilbert, Al Sherman, Jack Kaufman, and Howard E. Johnson. Lucky Lindy. Bridgeport, Conn.: Harmony, 1927. Sound recording. OCLC 299170374
  2. ^ Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers, and Their Times: the Golden Age of American Popular Music from 1886 to 1956. New York: D.I. Fine, 1988, page 190. ISBN 1556110995 OCLC 18135644
  3. ^ http://www.charleslindbergh.com/music/
  4. ^ "Charles Lindbergh Music". www.charleslindbergh.com. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-01.

Bibliography

  • Holloway, Diane, and Bob Cheney. American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945. San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2001. ISBN 0595193315 OCLC 49622031
  • Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers, and Their Times : the Golden Age of American Popular Music from 1886 to 1956. New York: D.I. Fine, 1988. ISBN 1556110995. OCLC 18135644
  • Tyler, Don. Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2007. ISBN 9780786429462 OCLC 76961274