Leo Reisman & His Orch. - Too Many Tears, 1932

Leo Reisman & His Orchestra, with Vocal Refrain – Too Many Tears, Fox Trot from the film comedy „Blessed Event” (Al. Dubin – H. Warren), HMV 1932 NOTE: This big American hit of the year 1932 was sung by Dick Powell in the comedy “Blessed Event”, where Lee Tracy, in his memorable role plays the jounalist who rises from a gossip columnist to a nationwide institution. His raise from nothingness to a celebrity was result of the dawn of “love for sale” era, when the most private things were easily becoming public and the big and lucrative business grew around them. Lee Tracy’s fabulous role was a harbinger of the approaching collapse of what once used to be called public morality. Leo Reisman’s orchestra belonged to the most prolific New York dance bands in the 1920s and 1930s. During the hot-dance era of the Roaring Twenties it used to be one of the hottest East Coast dance ensambles, which however, in turn of the 1920/30s rapidly changed its genre into a softer and sweeter hotel-dance style. That shift – from “hot” to “sweet” - meant survival for many American dance orchestras, including not only the band of Leo Reisman’s but also Paul Whiteman’s or Ben Bernie’s, to name just a few - which otherwise wouldn’t have been able to cope with the drastic change of the public taste in early 1930s, caused by the shock of the Great Depression. In spite of that, even in their “sweet” period, those bands sometimes recorded sides with “hot” arrangements, being the reminder of good old days of the Roaring Twenties – and such is “Too Many Tears”…