Lucky Lindy! Explained

Lucky Lindy
Cover:	"Lucky Lindy!" L. Wolfe Gilbert & Abel Baer; Sheet Music 1927.jpg
Caption:	"Lucky Lindy!" sheet music cover
Published:	1927

"Lucky Lindy!" is a fox-trot song composed by Abel Baer, with lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert. It was published by Harmony in 1927.^[1] The song was the first to celebrate Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis and his landing in Paris.^[2] Hundreds more followed.^[3]

The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.

Lyrics

The piece was "Dedicated to the mother of 'Lucky Lindy'" and the sheet music describes it as a "Fox-Trot Song."^[4] Glibert's lyrics, as printed in the sheet music, are as follows:

References

Bibliography

• Holloway, Diane, and Bob Cheney. American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945. San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2001.
• Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers, and Their Times : the Golden Age of American Popular Music from 1886 to 1956. New York: D.I. Fine, 1988. .
• Tyler, Don. Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2007.

Notes and References

1. Baer, Abel, L W. Gilbert, Al Sherman, Jack Kaufman, and Howard E. Johnson. Lucky Lindy. Bridgeport, Conn.: Harmony, 1927. Sound recording.
2. Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers, and Their Times: the Golden Age of American Popular Music from 1886 to 1956. New York: D.I. Fine, 1988, page 190.
3. http://www.charleslindbergh.com/music/
4. Web site: Charles Lindbergh Music . https://web.archive.org/web/20221007101253/http://www.charleslindbergh.com/music/index.asp . October 7, 2022 . 2023-02-01 . www.charleslindbergh.com.