Edison Record "Lucky Lindy" Charles Lindbergh

Talk about being first to cash in on someone's fame!! After World War I, the public had a great fascination for aeronautics and this interest reflected in the huge amount of press coverage of record making flights. Hearing about Detroit Native Charles Lindbergh's attempt on May 20, 1927 to cash in on the $25,000 Orteig prize for the first successful trans Atlantic flight, songwriters L. Wolfe Gilbert and Abel Baer finished their soon-to-be-hit just as news of Lindbergh's safe landing at Le Bourget came over the radio on May 21. That night their song was performed to great acclaim in several Manhattan clubs. Sheet music for the song was printed over the weekend and went on sale by Monday, May 23. On Tuesday the song headlined the marquee of the Paramount Theater, where it was featured on the Wurlitzer organ between showings of the week's movie, Rough House Rosie, starring Clara Bow. Recorded by tenor Vernon Dalhart ca. 1929-1930, the lyrics to "Lucky Lindy" are: From coast to coast, we all can boast and sing a toast to one, Who's made a name, By being game, He was born with wings as great as any bird that flies, A lucky star, Led him afar! cho: Lucky Lindy! Up in the sky, Fair or windy, he's flying high. Peerless, fearless --- knows every cloud, The kind of a son makes a mother feel proud! Lucky Lindy! Flies all alone, In a little plane all his own, Lucky Lindy shows them the way And he's the hero of the day. just like a child, he simply smiled while we went wild with fear, That Yankee lad! The world went mad! Everywhere we prayed for him to safely cross the sea, And he arrived, In gay Par-ee! This Edison record is a rare memento of Lindbergh's historic flight.