A gal in calico

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A Gal in Calico is a pop song written by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics) and published in 1946.

Using the song and first recordings

Schwartz and Robin wrote the Western -betonten song for the film musical The sky is full of violins ( The Time, the Place and the Girl , directed by David Butler ), in which he by Dennis Morgan , Jack Carson and Martha Vickers is sung. After its release, Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and The Pied Pipers had the greatest success with the song; they came out on # 1 in Your Hit Parade . The Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Tex Benekes , Bing Crosby (with The Calico Kids and John Scott Trotter ) and Benny Goodman were successful in the US charts with cover versions .

The rhythmically oriented singing in A Gal in Calico begins with the verse: Met a gal in Calico / Down in Santa Fe / Used to be her Sunday beau / 'Til I rode away / Do I want her / Do I.

The song was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Song , which finally received in 1948 Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert for the song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah .

Cover versions

In June 1946 the song was covered by Louis Prima ; versions by Charlie Spivak , Hal McIntyre , Simon Brehm and Skinnay Ennis followed in the same year . In 1951 Kurt Widmann and his orchestra took him on in Berlin. Ahmad Jamal added it to his repertoire; It was also recorded in the 1950s by Fred Astaire , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Jack Diéval , Jonah Jones , Richie Kamuca , Stan Levey , Dave Pell , Oscar Pettiford and Oscar Peterson . Influenced by Jamal's version, Miles Davis recorded A Gal in Calico on his early album The Musings of Miles . Later interpreted A Gal in Calico and Herb Geller , Pete Jolly , Jessica Williams , Manhattan Transfer and Aaron Binder & Hod O'Brien . Tom Lord lists 84 cover versions of the title (as of 2018).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Don Tyler: Music of the Postwar Era . P. 107
  2. ^ Billboard, November 30, 1946
  3. ^ Billboard Feb. 8, 1947
  4. ^ Billboard October 26, 1946
  5. ↑ Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 , edited by Alan Gevinson, p. 149
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 13, 2018)