Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
written by leon jessel
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PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS - RUBINOFF AND HIS ORCHESTRA
PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (BETTY BOOP) 1933
PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (BETTY BOOP) 1933
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Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers was written in 1897 by German composer Leon Jessell. In the mid-1920's the song was revived, and it was a hit for several performers. The song had become internationally well-known in the early 1920's when it appeared in Nikita Balieff's popular vaudeville show La Chauve-Souris. In 1923, the show was filmed by inventor and recording pioneer Lee DeForest using his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The following year Max Fleischer partnered with DeForest, and together they formed Red Seal Pictures. Starting that year Fleischer adopted the Phonofilm process, and he used it in the first 19 of his 36 films in the Song Car-Toons series. In 1933, Max Fleisher used Jessell's Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers as the title and basis for a Betty Boop short film. Also in 1933, the song debuted it's first performance in the annual Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. The fabulous dance routine performed by The Rockettes has been a part the show every year since. By 1933, composer Leon Jessell was having his works banned in Germany during the Nazi's rise to power because of Jessell's Jewish heritage. Despite having converted to Christianity in 1894, and despite that his second wife had joined the Nazi party, Jessell was rejected by Nazi Germany. In late 1941, in response to a "sympathetic" note of his that was discovered during a house search, Jessell was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo - he died in the Berlin Jewish Hospital two weeks later.
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1922
VINCENT LOPEZ ORCHESTRA |
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1922
MAJESTIC DANCE ORCHESTRA |
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1923
PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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1923
ARTHUR FIELDS |
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1927
INTER- NATIONAL NOVELTY ORCHESTRA |
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19??
RED NICHOLS AND HIS FIVE PENNIES |
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1928
from TOY SHOP |
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1932
GLENN MILLER AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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1934
from BABES IN TOYLAND |
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1939
RAWICZ & LANDAUER |
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1939
HORACE HEIDT AND HIS MUSICAL KNIGHTS |
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1934
TED FIO RITO ORCHESTRA |
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1950
THE ANDREWS SISTERS |
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195?
LARRY CLINTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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1949
THE THREE SONS |
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1959
FIEDLER AND THE BOSTON POPS |
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1960
RICHARD HAYMAN |
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1962
DON JANSE AND HIS 60 VOICE CHILDREN'S CHOIR |
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1962
LIVING VOICES |
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1962
PETER PAN RECORDS |
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1963
THE CRYSTALS |
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1968
THE SOULFUL STRINGS |
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1969
LIVING GUITARS |
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1988
DISNEY KARAOKE |
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1993
HARRY CONNICK JR. |
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2001
BREEN MACHINE (AUSTRALIA) |
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2009
HANDBELL SOLO (KOREA) |
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2011
JOE FINGERS CARR |
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2012
TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA |
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2014
FAITH RSI PERFORMANCE |
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2014
THE ROCKETTES |
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THE ROCKETTES: FROM STUDIO TO STAGE |
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THE ROCKETTES: SECRETS |
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2015
DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY |
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PLAYER PIANO |
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The Parade Of Wooden Soldiers in
BABES IN TOYLAND - Laurel & Hardy (1934) |
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THE PARADE OF WOODEN SOLDIERS
The toy shop door is locked up tight
And ev'rything is quiet for the night
When suddenly the clock strikes twelve
The fun's begun
The dolls are in their best arrayed
There's going to be a wonderful parade
Hark to the drum, oh, here they come
Cries ev'ryone
Hear them all cheering
Now they are nearing
There's the captain stiff as starch
Bayonets flashing
Music is crashing
As the wooden soldiers march
Sabers a-clinking
Soldiers a-winking
At each pretty little maid
Here they come
Here they come
Here they come
Here they come
Wooden soldiers on parade
Daylight is creeping,
Dollies are sleeping,
In the toyshop window fast;
Soldiers so jolly,
Think of each dolly,
Dreaming of the night that's past.
When in the morning,
Without a warning,
Toyman pulls the window shade,
There's no sign of the Wood Brigade
Was ever out upon parade.
The toy shop door is locked up tight
And ev'rything is quiet for the night
When suddenly the clock strikes twelve
The fun's begun
The dolls are in their best arrayed
There's going to be a wonderful parade
Hark to the drum, oh, here they come
Cries ev'ryone
Hear them all cheering
Now they are nearing
There's the captain stiff as starch
Bayonets flashing
Music is crashing
As the wooden soldiers march
Sabers a-clinking
Soldiers a-winking
At each pretty little maid
Here they come
Here they come
Here they come
Here they come
Wooden soldiers on parade
Daylight is creeping,
Dollies are sleeping,
In the toyshop window fast;
Soldiers so jolly,
Think of each dolly,
Dreaming of the night that's past.
When in the morning,
Without a warning,
Toyman pulls the window shade,
There's no sign of the Wood Brigade
Was ever out upon parade.
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