The Pied Piper of Happiness

Ted Lewis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 11, 2001)
• Original Release Date: December 21, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Star Line
• ASIN: B00003ZL32
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,508 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. When You're Smiling

2. Medicine Man for the Blues

3. September Song

4. Is It True What They Say About Dixie?

5. Stepping Out with a Wonderful Memory

6. When My Baby Smiles at Me

7. My Little Girl

8. The Cop on the Beat

9. She's Funny That Way

10. Somebody Stole My Gal

11. On the Sunny Side of the Street

12. Homemade Sunshine

13. Be Yourself

14. A Million Wonderful Memories

15. Baby Face

16. Old High Hat

17. If I Was a Millionaire

18. Music Is Magic

19. There'll Be Some Changes Made

20. Goodnight

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ted Lewis Later Recordings, January 21, 2007

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Ukulele Guide. (Amarillo Tx) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Pied Piper of Happiness (Audio CD)

This CD features Ted Lewis performing big-band versions of many great songs. "I'm Stepping Out With A Memory Tonight" (mistitled on the CD) is worth the price of the whole disk. If you have not heard him before you may at first be put off by the way he talks as much as sings. Stick with it and you will soon be a convert. His biography is in print and is titled ME AND MY FATHER'S SHADOW.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On the sunny side of the street, June 7, 2006

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Pied Piper of Happiness (Audio CD)

Ted ( Friedmann) Lewis was an old - time clarinetist, bandleader and entertainer. My father, the late Reuben Kelly Freedman of blessed memory took tremendous enjoyment from him, especially from his great number 'Me and my Shadow'. To my surprise this great song is not on any of the disks of his which I have seen.

Instead this collection features another of his greatest numbers, one he wrote the lyrics for , "The Sunny Side of the Street".

Ted slowly strutted his way along with battered high- hat blacktails and more talking - than- singing would give a truly delightful rendition of this great song.

Here are its words just for the pleasure of seeing and perhaps hearing them again.

"Grab your coat and get your hat

Leave your worries on the doorstep

Life can be so sweet

On the sunny side of the street

Can't you hear the pitter-pat?

And that happy tune is your step

Life can be complete

On the sunny side of the street

I used to walk in the shade with those blues on parade

But I'm not afraid because this rover crossed over!

And if I never had a cent

I'd be rich as Rockefeller

With gold dust at my feet

On the sunny side of the street

I used to walk in the shade with those blues on parade

But I'm not afraid because this rover crossed over!

And if I never had a cent

I'd be rich as *Harry Belafonte*

With *Barry Goldwater* at my feet

On the sunny side of the street