Button Up Your Overcoat
Button Up Your Overcoat (dt. Unbutton your coat to ) is a pop song, the Ray Henderson (music), Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown (text) written and published 1928th
background
The songwriting team Henderson, DeSylva and Brown wrote Button Up Your Overcoat for the musical comedy Follow Thru , which premiered on January 9, 1929 at New York's Forty Sixth Street Theater. The piece was a commentary on American golf and country club life. The song was presented by Jack Haley and Zelma O'Neal . Became popular Button Up Your Overcoat in the United States primarily through the disc holder of Helen Kane .
Button Up Your Overcoat is a “humorous, optimistic”, “lively, funny” song written in G major in the form of AABA ; "It is less the song of fervent love than of lovable possession". It has a simple but impressive text in which the loved one is admonished to wear clean clothes, eat sensibly, cross the street with caution and not stay up too long ( Eat an apple every day / Get to bed by three / take good care of yourself / You belong to me ). The dangers of consuming illegally distilled spirits are also discussed ( Keep away from bootleg hooch / When you're on a spree ). Other popular songs from the comedy Follow Thru were My Lucky Star and I Want to Be Bad .
First recordings and later cover versions
Even Paul Whiteman (Victor, with Vaughn De Leath , vocals), Ruth Etting / Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (Columbia) and Fred Waring 's Pennsylvanians (Victor) were successful with their versions of the song in the US. The musicians who covered the song from January 1929 included Ben Bernie (Brunswick, vocals by Dick Robertson ), the California Ramblers (Edison), Ray Ventura and Sam Wooding in Paris , Jack Hylton and Bert Ambrose in London and Ben Berlin in Berlin ( Deutsche Grammophon ). Betty Brown, the duo Layton and Johnstone (Columbia 5603), the Ever Bright Boys (aka Percival Mackey , Piccadilly 374) and The Manhattan Melodymakers (Broadcast 2518) recorded the pop song. Annette Hanshaw recorded the song for Harmony Records under the pseudonym Patsy Young , which she used when imitating the high-pitched voice of Helen Kane. Zelma O'Neil also recorded the song on record, accompanied by Al Goodman and the Follow Thru Orchestra (Brunswick 4207).
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 106 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz . a. by Spike Hughes , Bob Crosby , Johnny Mercer / Paul Weston , Sarah Vaughan , Bob Howard , Ted Heath , Rose Murphy , Peggy Lee , The Hi-Lo’s , Lou Levy , Sid Phillips , Bobby Troup / Russ Garcia , Bob Florence , Mick Mulligan , Wild Bill Davison , Mel Tormé , Keith Ingham / Marty Grosz and Ralph Sutton . The song was also performed by Perry Como and Mitzi Gaynor , Dick Haymes & Martha Tilton , Eydie Gormé , John Serry senior (1956), Peter Nero (1963), the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (1966), Nancy Sinatra , Theo Bleckmann and Nnenna Freelon (2001) interpreted. Button Up Your Overcoat was also used in several films, such as the film version of Follow Thru (1930, directed by Lloyd Corrigan , Laurence Schwab ), where Jack Haley and Zelma O'Neal repeated their successes. In 1956, the song in the biopic was fanfares of joy (The Best Things in Life Are Free) (directed by Michael Curtiz ) from a quartet of Gordon MacRae (as DeSylva), Ernest Borgnine (as Lew Brown), Sheree North and Dan Dailey (as Henderson) interpreted. The song was also used in Extrablatt (1974) and Der Volltreffer (1985).
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 359450091
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Marvin E. Paymer, Don E. Post: Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs . 1999, p. 114
- ↑ a b Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era. 2007, p. 161
- ^ Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 1 and Volume 2, edited by John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Paul Oliver, Peter Wicke. 2003, p. 116
- ↑ Esther De Michael Cervantes, Alex Cervantes: Mexican American Folktales . 1998, page 16
- ↑ Nicholas E. Tawa Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century . 2005, page 57
- ^ David Ewen American Songwriters: An HW Wilson Biographical Dictionary . 1987
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online)
- ↑ Moanin 'Low: A Discography of Female Popular Vocal Recordings, 1920-1933
- ↑ actually the band of Harry Bidgood, with the vocals of John Thorn.
- ↑ Malcolm Macfarlane, Ken Crossland: Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record . 2012, page 230
- ↑ http://bsnpubs.com/dot/dotb.html
- ↑ Note at ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Allmusic
