“The All-Night Record Man” features singing by Judy Ellington (no relation to the bandleader) and by Barnet, who was one of the first musicians to recognize the value of radio’s disc jockeys; he dedicated this number to radio personality Stan Shaw. (From Time-Life series Big Bands: Charlie Barnet,...
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CHARLIE:
It’s the all-night record man
There’s a man you should know
Who puts on a show
Each night at a radio station
When you’re going to bed
He gets up instead
And he goes to his odd occupation
(Judy!)
JUDY:
Stay-Up Stan the all-night record man
Friend of every night-owl music fan
All night long he’s at his post
To play the tunes you love the most
Stay-Up Stan, The All-Night Record Man
Send him a telegram
Hear your favorite band
He’ll play you anything
Bach to Dixieland
For every ten that criticize
A thousand others idolize
Stay-Up Stan, The All-Night Record Man
-(Sax solos, Instrumental Break)-
Puts on a record
Out the music goes
Where it reaches, no one ever knows
Someone alone in the hinterland
Maybe to a crowd on a roadside stand
Gang at the tavern
Tavern in the town
Get together, send a message down
Please play a song just for auld lang syne
Something we can sing like “Sweet Adeline”
-(second instrumental break)-
Stan! Stan!
Stay-Up Stan, The All-Night Record Man!
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The All-Night Record Man was written by Charlie Barnet.
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra released The All-Night Record Man on Mon Jul 17 1939.