Al Bowlly - On A Steamer Coming Over 1933 Ray Noble "The Cotton Club Parade of 1933"
Gramophone (B-6440) Recorded 12/20/1933 London, England. Abbey Road Studios. Studio 2.
Henry Bergman (lyricist)
Joe Goodwin (lyricist)
Lou Handman (composer)
Ray Noble Orchestra (Musical group)
Ray Noble (director)
Al Bowlly (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Fox trot (Title descriptor)
“On a Steamer Coming Over.” Words by Joe Goodman and Henry Bergman, music by Lou Handman. Composed for The Cotton Club Parade of 1933
“On a Steamer Coming Over” tells the story of a fortunate encounter between a woman and a man on a presumably trans-Atlantic ocean liner. Their romance quickly grows and thrives because the couple happily has lots of time and nothing else to do, and they seem destined for marriage. The song thus encapsulates a popular twentieth-century motif in which the confinement of a long ocean journey is taken as a source of happiness and not a mere modern nuisance..
“On a Steamer Coming Over” was introduced in New York by Aida Ward in The Cotton Club Parade of 1933.
The song was widely recorded by British artists.
Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African/British vocalist and jazz guitarist who was popular during the 1930s in England. He recorded more than 1,000 songs.
On 16 April 1941, Bowlly and Messene had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in Oxford Street, High Wycombe. Both were offered an overnight stay in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke Street, Duke's Court, St James, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning. His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, and the impact against his head was fatal. He was buried with other bombing victims in a mass grave at Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, where his name is given as Albert Alex Bowlly.
Raymond Stanley Noble (17 December 1903 – 2 April 1978) was an English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian, and actor. Noble wrote both lyrics and music for many popular songs during the British dance band era, known as the "Golden Age of British music".
Lyrics:
'Twas on a steamer coming over
Life began all anew
A perfect sea, a sunny sky
For there was she, and there was I
What could we do
I knew I was the lucky rover
Every day our love grew
Our hopes were high, our hearts were free
And she and I were both at sea
What could we do
Sweet romance seemed to fill the air
It caught us unaware
We kissed one night beneath a yellow moon
And right then and there
We started humming a happy wedding tune
'Twas on a steamer coming over
We both vowed to be true
A perfect sea, a sunny sky
For there was she, and there was I
What could we do.
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