Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep is a song written by Irving Berlin and released in 1954.
Berlin wrote the song for the film White Christmas ( White Christmas , 1955) directed by Michael Curtiz . In the film, Bing Crosby sings the famous Christmas carol White Christmas and Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep . Berlin probably took the words Count Your Blessings from the anthem When Upon Life's Billow by Johnson Oatman Jr. from 1897. The popularity of the song made Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep a popular expression in the United States.
The song then received an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1955 . The first lines of the song are:
- When I'm worried and I can't sleep
- I count my blessing instead of sheep
- And I fall asleep, counting my blessings.
Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep was recorded by numerous musicians in the USA in the 1950s, including a. by Rosemary Clooney , Arthur Godfrey , Arthur Norman and by the vocal bands The Orioles (on Jubilee Records ) and The Demensions (on Coral ). Further cover versions of the song took place in later years and a. Diana Krall ( Christmas Songs , 2005), Steven Pasquale , Ken Peplowski and Toshiko Akiyoshi .
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 380450712
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Cryer: Who Said That First ?: The Curious Origins of Common Words and Phrases , p. 68
- ^ The 1955 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ↑ http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Count-Your-Blessing-Instead-of-Sheep-lyrics-Diana-Krall/B457AEE7B4595D3B482570AC000897EC
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 9, 2014)