All Night Long (IV)

DESCRIPTION: Singer laments a sweetheart has gone away. Singer feels blue and thinks and dreams of the sweetheart constantly, and walks the floor. When the sweetheart returns, the singer will cease yearning. Chorus: "All night long, (baby) all night long.
AUTHOR: (Credited to Shelton Brooks)
EARLIEST DATE: 1912 (published)
LONG DESCRIPTION: Singer (who can be either male or female) laments that their sweetheart has gone away. They say that every time this happens they feel blue and think of the sweetheart constantly; the singer is always dreaming of their missing sweetheart. When they think of their sweetheart they walk the floor. When the sweetheart returns, they will cease their yearning. Chorus: "All night long, (baby) all night long.
KEYWORDS: grief loneliness courting farewell parting separation abandonment lover
FOUND IN: US
RECORDINGS:
Roy Acuff & his Crazy Tennesseans, "All Night Long" (ARC 7-01-60, 1937; rec. 1936)
Anna Chandler, "All Night Long" (CYL: Edison (BA) 1739, 1913)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Baby, All Night Long"(see NOTES)
cf. "Battleship of Maine" (tune)
NOTES [54 words]: With an almost identical tune and structure, I see "Baby, All Night Long" (which is mostly floating blues verses) as being a degenerated version of this song; you should check that listing as well, Or perhaps, RBW suggests, "Baby All Night Long" is an elaborated version of this one. Either way, they're close relatives.- PJS
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