Victor (19903) Recorded 12/18/1925 Camden, New Jersey.
Billy Rose (lyricist)
Al Dubin (lyricist)
Joseph Meyer (composer)
Helen Clark (vocalist : soprano vocal)
Franklyn Baur (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Rosario Bourdon (director)
Charlot’s revue (Work title)
“A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You” is a 1925 song written by Joseph Meyer, with lyrics by Al Dubin and Billy Rose. The title was inspired by the famous line “A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread–and Thou” from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The Charlot Revue of 1926 Broadway Selwyn Theatre
(New York, NY) 229 W. 42nd St.(New York, NY) 229 W. 42nd St.
Franklyn Baur (April 5, 1903–February 24, 1950) was a popular tenor vocal recording artist.
Baur was born in New York and educated at Amherst.
Baur made hundreds of recordings for about a dozen different recording companies, including the three major labels, Victor, Columbia and Brunswick.
Baur became the highest salaried ballad singer on the radio during the 1920s.
Baur’s most notable radio broadcasts were for the well-known Voice of Firestone (initially titled The Firestone Hour). He was one of the soloists on Firestone’s first broadcast in December 1928 and remained with Firestone through May 1930, after which his contract was not renewed because he had asked for compensation, in addition to his generous weekly broadcast fee, to perform at a company function
Baur was among the vocalists on The Ipana Troubadours in the mid-1920s, and the Palmolive Hour and the Seiberling Singers in the late 1920s.
Following his dismissal by Firestone, Baur’s career declined. In 1931, he went to France to take voice lessons, and he gave a recital in 1933 at Town Hall in New York City.
He died on February 24, 1950 at the age of 46 at his home in New York City..
BURIAL – Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA.
Helen Clark (Singer) Lost to history.
Jim Walsh wrote in the June 1982 issue of Hobbies, “At one time she was married to a son of C.B. Haynes, an Edison phonograph and record jobber in Richmond, Virginia.” She was later married to Evan Cameron. Social Security records show a Helen Cameron who was born on May 6, 1884 and who died in July 1963. Quentin Riggs, who corresponded with the singer, reports that she stopped writing around mid-1963. This Helen Cameron could be Helen Clark. No dates for birth or death are otherwise known.
Lyrics:
As recorded by HELEN CLARK & FRANKLYN BAUR:
In the movie plays of nowadays
A romance always must begin in June
Tales in magazines have all their scenes
Of love laid in a garden ‘neath the Moon
But I don’t need that kind of bliss
What I want is this
A cup of coffee, a sandwich and you
A cozy corner, a table for two
A chance to whisper, and cuddle and coo
With lots of huggin’ and kissin’ in view
I don’t need music, lobster or wine
Whenever your eyes look into mine
The things I long for are simple and few
A cup of coffee, a sandwich and you
If it is because you can’t afford more
Sandwiches and coffee we will share
But if it’s to help you save and hoard more
I can plainly see how much you care
If were you, talking to me
My approach would be
A cup of coffee, a sandwich and you
A cozy corner, a table for two
A chance to whisper, and cuddle and coo
With lots of huggin’ and kissin’ in view
I don’t need music, lobster or wine
Whenever your eyes look into mine
The things I long for are simple and few
A cup of coffee, a sandwich and you
(Instrumental Break)
With lots of huggin’ and kissin’ in view
I don’t need music, lobster or wine
Whenever your eyes look into mine
The things I long for are simple and few
A cup of coffee, a sandwich and you, you, you-oo-oo