MY FUTURE JUST PASSED
From the film "Safety In Numbers" (1930)
(Music: Richard A. Whiting / Lyrics: George Marion Jr.)

Charles "Buddy Rogers" & Kathryn Crawford (Film Soundtrack) - 1930
Ethel Merman (feat. in the film short "Her Future") - 1930
The High Hatters (vocal: Frank Luther) - 1930
Annette Hanshaw - 1930
Bob Haring & The Colonial Club Orch. - 1930
Henny Hendrickson's Louisville Serenaders - 1930
Chester Gaylord - 1930
The Boswell Sisters - 1930
Red Nichol's & His Orch. - 1930
Ben Pollack & His Orch. (feat. Jack Teagarden) - 1930
Columbia Photo Players (vocal: Lew Conrad) - 1930
Marius B. Winter & His Dance Orch. - 1930
Margaret Whiting - 1940 (re-recorded 1980)
Kay Starr) - 1945
Dick Haymes (with Les Paul's Trio) - 1945
Harry James & His Orch. (vocal: Marion Morgan) - 1947
Delta Rhytm Boys - 1947
Helen O'Connell - 1955
Peggy Lee - 1955
Carmen McRae - 1956
Don Cherry (with Ray Conniff) - 1956
Teddi King - 1957
Joyce Carr - 1960
Shirley Horn - 1963
Chet Atkins - 1974
Clay Crosby - 1996
Clairdee - 2000

Also recorded by: 
Les Paul & Mary Ford; Sue Raney; Jaleel Shaw; Rebecca Kilgore; 
Peggy Serra; Rob Parton’s Big Band; Diana Panton; Claire Terese;
Bud Lavin; Lloyd Keating & His Music; Leroy Holmes & His Orch.; 
The Four Epics; Hal McIntyre & His Orch. (vocal: Frankie Lester); 
 ......... and others.




As sung by Annette Hanshaw as a single in 1926
Also released in 2009 on 
'Annette Hanshaw I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling'





You will find my past not spotless
If you care to delve
Twenty broken hearts and not less
Before I was twelve.

But from it all I've stopped
From the parade I dropped
Hope the future loves I've started
To shelve.

But...

There goes the boy I dreamed all through school about
There goes the boy I'll now be a fool about
Ring down the curtain, I'm certain at present
My future just passed.

Don't even know if he has been spoken for
If he is tied, the ties must be broken
For life can't be that way, to wake me then break me
My future just passed.

Stars in the blue, tho' you're at a distance
You can at least do this
Sometimes a girl encounters resistance
Help me to win this boy.

Here are my arms, may he find illusion there
Look in my heart, there is no confusion there
Now that I'm loving, I'm living at last
My future just passed.

He is my faith, with capital F in it
Now in my dreams, there'll be someone definite
Ring down the curtain, I'm certain at present
My future just passed.

Don't even know if he has been spoken for
If he is tied, the ties must be broken
For life can't be that way, to wake me then break me
My future just passed.

(bridge)

Here are my arms, may he find illusion there
Kiss my two lips, remove all the rouge on there
Now that I'm loving, I'm living at last
There goes my future, the boy that just passed.

That's all!


Notes:

< MY FUTURE JUST PASSED > was included in the soundtrack 
from the 1930 Paramount musical 'Safety In Numbers'.
Director Victor Schertzinger
Leads: Charles Buddy Rogers / Kathryn Crawford / 
Josephine Dunn / Carole Lombard

(Catherine) Annette Hanshaw, an American, was a blues and 
jazz singer from the 1920s and early 1930s and was 
purportedly one of the first female jazz singers of that era.


She was known as 'The Personality Girl' or later as 
the 'The Flapper Girl' by her followers and fit the 
1920s period perfectly with her flapper style and 
sweet innocent-sounding voice. She often ended her 
songs with the cute tag "That's All". 
See 
  MY BLACKBIRDS ARE BLUEBIRDS NOW
or
  THE ONE IN THE WORLD
or 
  LOVABLE & SWEET
as other examples.

Some consider the later Hanshaw, a 'torch singer' along 
with the likes of Ruth Etting, Mildred Bailey, Jane Froman 
and Bebe Daniels. Strangely, she thought her abilities 
'wanting' by her own standards and retired early to married 
life, after only 15 years in the business.




(Transcribed by David Story- April 2014)