In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

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Cover of the sheet music edition of In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree (1905)

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree is a pop song written by Egbert Van Alstyne (music) and Harry H. Williams (lyrics) and published in 1905.

background

The songwriting team Alstyne and Williams wrote a number of Tin Pan Alley songs from the turn of the century after both of them came to New York from Michigan, where they worked as song demonstrators for Remick music publisher. Homesick for the Midwest and the fact that they had n't found a single apple tree in what was then Central Park , they wrote In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree ; it became the most successful song of their long-term collaboration, although in Williams' view it was "the biggest rubbish I've ever written".

The Peerless Quartet with Henry Burr, ca.1923

First recordings and later cover versions

One of the musicians who recorded the song from 1905 onwards was Henry Burr under the pseudonym Irving Gillette ), who reached # 1 on the US charts with his version in April 1905 and helped Burr to great popularity in the USA. The recordings of the pop song by the Hayden Quartet (# 2) and Albert Campbell / Columbia Quartets were also successful in the American charts. Billy Murray recorded a parody of the song in 1905 (Victor 4486). Other early recordings of the song come from the Peerless Quartet (with Henry Burr) and the Crockett's Kentucky Mountaineers (Brunswick).

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 115 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Gene Kardos , Duke Ellington (1933 (# 13 on the charts) and 1945 as V-Disc ), Claude Hopkins , Midge Williams , Louis Armstrong and The Mills Brothers (1937), Benny Goodman , The Smoothies, Bob Crosby , Jimmie Lunceford , Charlie Spivak , George Brunies , Johnny Hodges , Natty Dominique , Pete Rugolo , Ruby Braff , Johnny Wiggs , Russell Procope , Maxwell Davis , Marty Grosz , Gustav Brom , Jonah Jones , Chris Barber , George Lewis , the Swing College Band , Big Dutch Bill Bissonnette / Sammy Rimington and numerous other Dixieland bands. Even Homer and Jethro , Dean Martin (1953), Russ Conway (1961) and Leon Redbone ( Any Time , 2001) took up the song of 1929 in the eponymous cartoon by Dave Fleischer was used.

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 359414516

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014
  2. ↑ Published as Gold Molded Record 8958 bw. Edison 2-minute cylinder 8958
  3. ↑ Maury Dean: Rock 'n' Roll Gold Rush: A Singles Un-encyclopedia. Algora Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-0-875862-07-1 , p. 13.
  4. ↑ Columbia cylinder record 85006
  5. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  6. ↑ In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / Unnecessary use of parameter 2
  7. ^ Edwin M. Bradley The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 . 2005, page 183