Hispanopedia Wiki"When I Leave the World Behind" is a song written by Irving Berlin and popularized by Sam Ash, Henry Burr, and Al Jolson.[2][3]
Composition
In the words of Don Tyler and his book Music of the First World War, it is a song "about a man facing his own mortality and the legacy he hope[s] to leave behind".[4] It was based on the will of a lawyer named Charles Lounsberry, who bequeathed to his children "exclusively the dandelion of the field and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children." There were more clauses likewise sentimental. Only after the song became a hit, he was found to have been a hoax.[4][2][5][6]
References
- ↑"Sam Ash / Herbert Stuart – When I Leave The World Behind / When The Lusitania Went Down". 11 May 2026 – via Discogs.
- 12Tyler, Don (16 April 2007). Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-2946-2.
- ↑Harrison, Nigel (1998). Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary with Discographies. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0542-8.
- 12Tyler, Don (21 March 2016). Music of the First World War. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 979-8-216-12052-0.
- ↑"The Billboard". 1949.
- ↑Whitcomb, Ian (1987). Irving Berlin and Ragtime America. Century. ISBN 978-0-7126-1664-5.
Categories:
- 1915 songs
- 1915 singles
- Songs written by Irving Berlin
- Al Jolson songs
- Columbia Records singles