Buds won't bud

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Buds Won't Bud is a pop song written by Harold Arlen (music) and EY Harburg (lyrics) and released in 1937.

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In 1930 Arlen first wrote the music for a song by songwriter Jay Gorney that later became Buds Won't Bud . Its second chorus began with the words: Oh the buds won't bud / The dew won't do. Two years later, Harlen reworked the song into two similar songs, Cause You Didn't Do Right and Buds Won't Bud , with lyrics by Yip Harburg. The song was then featured in the Vincente Minnelli- produced Broadway revue Hooray For What! which ran from December 1, 1937 to May 21, 1938 at the Winter Garden Theater, New York. The song was presented by Hannah Williams.

The chorus begins with a ninth chord , followed by a ten bar bridge leading to a chromatic melody with minor chords and diminished chords. The lyrics are one of Harburg's liveliest works, rhythmic and rich in puns. The song begins with the lines:

Buds won't bud, breeze won't breeze and dew won't dew,
One and one ain't even two
When the love you love won't love you.

First recordings and later cover versions

Judy Garland was originally supposed to sing Buds Won't Bud in the film Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940, directed by George B. Seitz ); but the song was removed before the film was completed. Garland's record for Decca Records was on April 10, 1940. That year also included the orchestras of Benny Goodman (Columbia, with Helen Forrest , vocals), Tommy Dorsey (Victor, with Connie Haines , vocals) and Tommy Tucker (OKeh 5634, with Al Knapp) the song on; Ethel Waters sang Buds Don't Bud in the MGM feature film Cairo (1942, directed by WS Van Dyke ). In later years versions of the song by Phil Harris , Bea Wain , Ralph Burns (Decca, with Marcy Lutes), Richard Rodney Bennett , Peggy Lee and Julie Wilson ( Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook , 1989) were made. The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 25 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz .

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 380881055

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 152 f.
  2. ↑ Information at Internet Broadway Database
  3. ^ Edward Jablonski: Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues . 1998, p. 117.
  4. ↑ Walter Rimler: The Man That Got Away: The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen . 2015, p. 66
  5. ↑ Harold Meyerson, Ernie Harburg: Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz ?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist . 1995, p. 110
  6. ^ Scott Schechter: Judy Garland: The Day-by-day Chronicle of a Legend . 2006, page 64
  7. ↑ a b c Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  8. ↑ Sam Irvin: Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise , 2011, p. 81.
  9. ^ Billboard January 16, 1943