Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home is a pop song written by Harold Arlen (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and released in 1946.
background
Mercer wrote Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home for the Broadway - musical St. Louis Woman , from the also their song Come Rain or Come Shine came. The musical premiered on March 30, 1946.
First recordings and later cover versions
Johnny Mercer recorded the song on March 3, 1946 with the Carl Kress Orchestra under the direction of Bobby Sherwood for Capitol Records . The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 42 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. from 1950 by Billy Butterfield , Ada Moore / Buck Clayton , Bobby Short , Helen Merrill , Pearl Bailey , Chris Connor , Barry Galbraith , Annie Ross , Sammy Davis junior , Rosemary Clooney , Cleo Laine , Susannah McCorkle and Lorez Alexandria . Even Barbra Streisand ( The Second Barbra Streisand Album , 1963) and Judy Garland coverten the song.
Arlen and Mercer's pop song should not be confused with Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat is Home, Sweet Home to Me from 1901, written by William Jerome (lyrics) and Jean Schwartz (music).
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 75
- ^ Philip Furia: The Poets of Tin Pan Alley : A History of Americas Great Lyricists . 1992
- ^ David A. Jasen, Tin Pan Alley : An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song . 2004, p. 14
- ↑ Including with Herb Lorden
- ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
- ↑ Glenn T. Eskew: Johnny Mercer: Southern songwriter for the World . 2013, page 305
- ↑ http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8cdc01ab-96c4-9ee6-e040-e00a180625a0