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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, also sung as Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?, is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written in 1930 by lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was part of the 1932 musical ''Americana'';〔(Information from playbill on musical "Americana", Belknap Playbill and Program Collection )〕 the melody is based on a Russian-Jewish lullaby Gorney's mother had sung to him as a child.〔(Forward: review of Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist, Harriet Hyman Alonso, Wesleyan University Press, 2012 )〕〔American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, Michael Kazin, pub. Random House, p176. (Extracts )〕 It was considered by Republicans to be anti-capitalist propaganda, and almost dropped from the show; attempts were made to ban it from the radio.〔(Songwriters Hall of Fame: EY Harburg biography )〕 The song became best known, however, through recordings by Bing Crosby, Al Jolson and Rudy Vallee. They were released right before Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election to the presidency and both became number one hits on the charts. The Brunswick Crosby recording became the best-selling record of its period, and came to be viewed as an anthem to the shattered dreams of the era.〔Giddins, G. (2001). ''Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years, 1903 - 1940''. Little, Brown, p.305.〕
==Summary==
In the song a beggar talks back to the system that stole his job.〔 Gorney said in an interview in 1974 "I didn't want a song to depress people.
I wanted to write a song to make people think. It isn't a hand-me-out song of 'give me a dime, I'm starving, I'm bitter', it wasn't that kind of sentimentality".〔Said by Gorney in a 1974 interview, an excerpt of which was transmitted on BBC2 television programme "The Story of the Jews" part 4 by Simon Schama on 22 September 2013 at 21:00〕 The song asks why the men who built the nation – built the railroads, built the skyscrapers – who fought in the war (World War I), who tilled the earth, who did what their nation asked of them should, now that the work is done and their labor no longer necessary, find themselves abandoned and in bread lines.
It refers to "Yankee Doodle Dum", a reference to patriotism, and the evocation of veterans also recalls protests about military bonuses payable only after 21 years, which were a topical issue.〔''Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition,'' Lucy G. Barber, 2004 (p. 104 )〕〔''The Twentieth Century: A People's History,'' by Howard Zinn, (p. 116 )〕
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