BY A RIPPLING STREAM (WAITING FOR YOU)


(Bernice Petkere (m & l) 1932)


As sung by Cliff Garnet, Carl Graub and Charles Socci 
(Johnny Hamp and His Orchestra) 1932.

Garnet, Graub and Socci were vocalists for 
Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders of the 1920/30s.


Also sung by:

Aileen Stanley


(instrumental bridge to start 
(about 2 minutes of the total recording of 3)


I would like to wander by a rippling stream

Just be lazy, sit and dream

Hoping it will help me pass the time away

Waitin' for you.


When I close my eyes I seem to feel you near

Right beside me, standing here

Listening to my promise that I'll always be

Waitin' for you.


Sometimes I fear that I'm waiting in vain

Sometimes I fear you won't come back again

Sometimes I wonder how long it will be

'Til you return to me.


So I like to wander by a rippling stream

Just be lazy, sit and dream

Hoping it will help me pass the time away

Waitin' for you.


(instrumental bridge to end)



Notes:


Bernice Petkere, the composer, was lovingly referred to as the 'Queen Of

Tin Pan Alley'. Her first published song was  STARLIGHT (HELP ME FIND

THE ONE I LOVE). She contributed

a number of standards in her career, among them,  LULLABY OF THE LEAVES and 
STAY OUT OF MY DREAMS


Johnny Hamp, an American, was a dance and jazz band leader of the 1920s.

Most everyone associates Hamp with his hit recording of the 'BLACK

BOTTOM' in 1926. The Black Bottom replaced the iconic Charleston as the

'in' dance craze of the emancipated 'flapper' era (1920s).


As is pointed out on the Internet in several locations, Johnny Hamp, the

band leader should not be confused with Johnnie Hamp, the British TV

producer.


Aileen Stanley (stage name), an American from Chicago, sang in cabarets

and danced vaudeville during the 1920s. Later in life, she was a singing

teacher. She is associated with a number of famous recordings including

WHEN MY SUGAR WALKS DOWN THE STREET. 
Perhaps the most interesting facet of Stanley's history (born

Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge) was the fact that she purportedly (by her

own account) introduced Wallis Simpson to Edward, Prince Of Wales,

thereby creating a gigantic scandal and constitutional crisis within the

United Kingdom.


(Transcribed by David Story May 2014)