So it was one of those days. Four hours sleep the night before due to a concert, I was up at 5am, wrote and edited till 8, rushed to work, had a business lunch, home at 730 and another hour on the website. Helen, my co-writer, took over the night shift and was surprised I had written as much as I had.
She sent me the Maurice Sigler cowritten, Paul Robson sung “Little Man, You’ve Had A busy Day”. A song I hadn’t heard of before.
When you wanna know how much music has change, this sounds nothing like what we listen to today. If you ever pick up the triple “Pennies from heaven” soundtrack, check out “Turn Off The Lights And Go To Sleep” -a song it resembles.
Both of these are more old fashioned than Bach or Beethoven: those folks are timeless, but Maurice Sigler (30 November 1901, New York City -6 February 1961, Flushing) -is lost in time from us. The great survives, the lousy disappear, and some music seems to live on in the realms of dream and memory. Helen remembers her Grandma singing it to her.
“Daddy’s little hero is tired and wants to cry, now come along and rest your weary head…”