Put your arms around me, honey

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Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You) is a pop song written by Albert Von Tilzer (music) and Junie McCree and released in 1910.

background

Tilzer and McCree wrote Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey for the Broadway show Madame Sherry , an adaptation of the French operetta farce Madame Sherry by Maurice Ordonneau and Hugo Felix . All other songs were contributed by Otto Harbach and Karl Hoschna . The song was premiered at the New York New Amsterdam Theater by Elizabeth Murray and at the performance in Chicago by Fanny Wise.

First recordings and later cover versions

Decca - '78 from Put Your Arms Around Me Honey in the version by Clayton McMichen and his Georgia Wildcats (1938)

Put Your Arms Around Me Honey was a hit title for Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan (Victor) in 1921; 1943 for Dick Kuhn & His Orchestra. During the recording ban , Decca Records produced an a cappella recording with Dick Haymes & The Song Spinners, which also hit the US pop charts in 1944.

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 21 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. from 1943 by Glenn Miller , Charlie Spivak , Tiny Hill, Frank Froeba , Hank Hill and The Hill Toppers, Ella Mae Morse / Nelson Riddle , Dorothy Donegan , Jean Goldkette , Marion Montgomery , Joe Webster , George Buck's Jazzology All Stars and the Mike Barone Big Band.

The All Star Stompers played him on the radio show This Is Jazz in 1947 (consisting of Wild Bill Davison , Jimmy Archey , Albert Nicholas , Ralph Sutton , Danny Barker , Pops Foster , Baby Dodds ) and Betty Grable sang him in the feature film Coney Island (1943) , Judy Garland in In the Good Old Summertime (1949, directed by Robert Z. Leonard ). The song was also covered by country singer Clayton McMichen and his Georgia Wildcats (1938), and in 1960 by Ray Smith (Judd Records) and by Fats Domino (Imperial 5687).

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 381267547

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . 2007, p. 55
  2. ^ Ray Argyle: Scott Joplin and the Age of Ragtime . 2009, page 72
  3. ↑ Thomas Bauman Pekin: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black-Owned Theater . 2014, page 122
  4. ↑ Catalog of Victor Records: With Biographic Material, Opera Notes, Artist's Portraits, and Special Red Seal and Green Sections Cover 1921
  5. ^ Billboard Oct. 9, 1943
  6. ^ Billboard Music Year Book 1944
  7. ^ Joel Whitburn: Joel Whitburn's Billboard Pop Hits, Singles & Albums . 2002, page 374
  8. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  9. ^ Billboard January 24, 1948