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Abraham Jacob Gornetzsky (Białystok, 12 de diciembre de 1896-Nueva York, 14 de junio de 1990), más conocido como Jay Gorney, fue un compositor estadounidense, reconocido principalmente por haber escrito la canción «Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?» durante el periodo de la Gran Depresión.
Jay Gorney (December 12, 1896 – June 14, 1990) was an American theater and film song writer. Life and career. Gorney was born Abraham Jacob Gornetzsky on December 12, 1896, in Białystok, Russia (now part of Poland), the son of Frieda (Perlstein) and Jacob Gornetzsky. His family was Jewish.
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- Reception and Legacy
The Great Depression in the United States, which started with the 1929 Wall Street crash, had a severe impact on the country. In 1932, 25 percent of American men were unemployed. After his appliance business went bankrupt, Yip Harburg had gone into the music business, working as a lyricist. The melody derives from a Jewish lullaby that the composer...
The song is about a man who has sought the American dream, but was foiled by the Great Depression. He is the universal everyman who holds various professions, being a farmer and a construction worker as well as a veteran of World War I: it is intended to embrace all listeners. The man is someone "who kept faith in America, and now America has betra...
The song was first performed by the vaudeville singer Rex Weber as part of the musical Americana, which ran from October to December 1932 and was not a success. Three weeks after Americana opened, the song was covered by crooner Bing Crosby for Brunswick Records; it was also covered by Rudy Vallee shortly thereafter for Columbia Records. Unusually,...
At the time, reviews of musicals rarely devoted much space to the songs' lyrics and melody. That was not true of the reviews of Americana. In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote that "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was "plaintive and thundering" and "the first song of the year that can be sung... Mr. Gorney has expressed the spirit of these ...
Abraham Jacob Gornetzsky (Białystok, 12 de diciembre de 1896-Nueva York, 14 de junio de 1990), más conocido como Jay Gorney, fue un compositor estadounidense, reconocido principalmente por haber escrito la canción «Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?» durante el periodo de la Gran Depresión.
Jay Gorney, who wrote the music for ''Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,'' one of the most enduring songs of the Depression, died yesterday at the Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged in...
Tomorrow is the last day of Independent. Thank you Jay Gorney for being a risk-taker with, and advocate for, “difficult” artists for the past five decades. I’m looking forward to our future projects. @jaygorney1 @independent_hq Photography by Leandro Justen, Courtesy of Independent
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