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Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music of Louis A. Hirsch. The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Rick Benjamin, director. New World Records CD 80707–2, 2010.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2012

Geoffrey Block
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Recording Reviews
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , November 2012 , pp. 494 - 497
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1 In the months before this song would be heard relentlessly in Mary (1920), a hit Broadway musical produced by George M. Cohan, “Love Nest” enjoyed hit recordings by stratospheric tenor John Steel and Art Hickman's orchestra. Burns and Allen adopted the first forty seconds of the tune as their theme song, both for their radio show in the 1930s and 1940s and their bi-weekly television program that ran for most of the 1950s. Twelve seconds of the song accompanied a marquee of Mary in the post–World War I sequence of Yankee Doodle Dandy, the popular 1942 musical biopic of Cohan, and during the run of Burns and Allen the song also appeared in the Marilyn Monroe film Love Nest (1951) and in The Helen Morgan Story (1957).