So Tired
Posted in Popular Song on Jun 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
A little while ago I bought a CD compilation of songs from the 1940s. Out of copyright compilations of this type are widespread now - and cheap. I bought it for one song - ‘So Tired’ by Russ Morgan. It was a replacement for an original 78rpm record I had of it which broke when I dropped an armful downstairs - along with Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong.
It was a hit in 1946, the year I was born. Morgan had another hit the same year with the cheerful ‘Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternnoon.’ Hearing it again reminded me why I liked this corny tune - the downward cadence of the opening ‘So tired of waiting for you.’ Morgan’s singing is less sensitive than my memory is of that 78 record - and who nowadays calls their sweetheart ‘dear’?
