Mountain Greenery
Mountain Greenery is a song written by Richard Rodgers (music) and Lorenz Hart (lyrics) and published in 1926.
background
The songwriting team Rodgers and Hart wrote the song for the second edition of the Broadway revue The Garrick Gaieties ; was presented to Mountain Greenery there by Sterling Holloway and Bobbie Perkins.
The song is written in C major in the form AABA and is very melodic; the chorus , marked cheerfully , is also made up of the simple arrangement of three repeated tones, which in turn are repeated on different octaves. "Hart's song lyric is very funny in that he rhymes such disparate expressions as beanerie (dt. Cheap restaurant), machinery (machines) and greenery (the leaves)."
First recordings and later cover versions
Roger Wolfe Kahn and Frank Crumit (both for Victor Records ) were among the first musicians to record the song in the United States from May 1926 . John Abriani played him in Berlin and Fred Elizalde in London .
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 160 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz . a. by Mel Tormé , Barbara Carroll , Henri Renaud / Al Cohn , Dave Pell , Lee Wiley , Jackie Cain , Peter Nero , Matt Dennis , Hazel Scott ., Bobby Troup , Ruby Braff , Etta Jones , Ella Fitzgerald and Shorty Rogers .
Notes and individual references
- ^ A b c d Marvin E. Paymer, Don E. Post: Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs . 1999, p. 96 f.
- ↑ actually Giovanni Abriani (May 15, 1898 - August 1960). Cf. Adriano Mazzoletti: Il jazz in Italia: dalle origini alle grandi orchester . 2004
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)