… Helen Morgan recorded “Winter Overnight.”
Originally, Irving Kahal penned “Without Your Smile” to fit Sammy Fain’s tune. By the time Warner Brothers assigned it (and Helen) to the Rudy Vallée film Sweet Music, Kahal had rewritten the lyric.
On December 5, 1934, Helen entered the Brunswick studio in Los Angeles, where she waxed the song under Jimmie Grier’s baton. Backed by her other Sweet Music song, “I See Two Lovers,” the recording enjoyed a release as Brunswick 7391.
Helen included the introductory verse when she sang it during her final appearance on The Fleishman Hour on November 15, 1934. Whether she included the verse in the film is anybody’s guess: Warners cut the song before its release, although “I See Two Lovers” remained.
Anyway, here ‘s Helen’s commercial recording of an undervalued ballad of the era.
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