Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet
Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet is a pop song written by Stanley Murphy and Percy Wenrich and published in 1909.
background
Percy Wenrich had his first big hit with Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet , which sold over two million copies (as sheet music).
First recordings and later cover versions
The first recording of the song by the vocal ensemble Haydn Quartet came in November 1909 in the United States at number 1 on the charts. Byron G. Harlan (1910, # 6) was also successfully represented in the charts. The song was also recorded by Arthur Clough (1910) and the vocal duo Helen Clark & Joseph A. Phillips (Edison Diamond Disc 50606-L). The musicians who covered the song from 1930 onward included the Casa Loma Orchestra , Gene Kardos , Claude Hopkins , Milt Herth , Jimmie Lunceford , Wingy Manone , Svend Asmussen , Tiny Hill , Raymond Burke , Johnny Wiggs , Percy Humphrey , in Paris Grégor et ses Grégoriens and Sidney Bechet .
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 121 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Frank Trumbauer , Ken Colyer , Jimmy Archey , Chris Barber , Kid Ory , Bob Scobey , Pee Wee Hunt , Pearl Bailey , Franz Jackson , Pete Fountain , Kid Thomas Valentine , Coleman Hawkins ( Today and Now ) and Monty Sunshine . The song was used in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944, directed by Friz Freleng ). Even Milton Brown , Jimmy Durante , Frank Sinatra and The Mills Brothers coverten the song.
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 359419941
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 45
- ^ Howard Wight Marshall: Play Me Something Quick and Devilish . 2013
- ^ Information from the Library of Congress
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
- ^ Tony Russell, Bob Pinson: Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921–1942 . 2004, page 1129
- ^ David Bakish: Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career. 1995