Tennessee Waltz
Tennessee Waltz was originally a country song by Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart, was first recorded by Cowboy Copas and developed in a later pop version for multiple million-selling.
Genesis
Tennessee Waltz was established in December 1946 by Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart the singer who is a member in Kings Monitoring Group Golden West Cowboys, was composed on the way back from a gig. As Waltz was announced by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe in the car radio of Kentucky, both were inspired to the new composition of the Tennessee Waltz.
In April 1947, the song with Cowboy Copas was admitted to the King Recording Studios in Cincinnati and # 696 (B-side How Much Do I Owe You? ) Released on March 28, 1948 by King Records as catalog. He came into the country charts where he reached the third place in May 1948. Producer of the song was the label owner Syd Nathan. Even Pee Wee King's version, recorded on December 2, 1947 in the RCA Studios in Chicago with the Golden West Cowboys, reached the third place in the country charts with 500,000 records sold after its publication on 25 January 1948.
Million-selling pop song as a
As a jazz trumpeter Erskine Hawkins released his instrumental version of the Tennessee Waltz in October 1950 was the same month Jack Rael, the manager and orchestra leader of the pop singer Patti Page, 's attention. The pop version in the version of Patti Page was recorded on 14 October 1950 in five takes with the first voice overdubbing and kept strictly to the arrangement by Erskine Hawkins. Released in November 1950 ( Mercury # 5534 ), originally the B-side of Long Long Ago, plate to their most successful hit, which has been implemented within eight months, three million times and subsequently a total of 6 million copies. He arrived on December 30, 1950 number one pop singles chart, where it remained for 13 weeks. The awarded a platinum record hit came as a "reverse crossover " and on the second place in the C & W charts. In order for the country song had for Patti Page, incidentally, the fourth million-selling, leave its origins and was transcended to pop song. Composer Pee Wee King knew immediately that this would be a hit. The U.S. state of Tennessee has adapted him on 17 February 1965 as State Song.
Lyrically, it is a song relating to themselves, because a couple dancing on the Tennessee Waltz, as a friend of the singer (a friend of the singer ) appears that ( the girlfriend him) stretches out her friend. Musically, he has AABA structures, each 32 bars long on.
Cover versions
According to BMI, the song has been gecovert 59 times, Cover Info lists a total of 100 versions, while James M. Manheim quoted as 300 versions.
Almost every artist has the classic repertoire, including alone nor in 1950, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians ( December 1950 ), Les Paul / Mary Ford ( December 1950 ), Jo Stafford ( December 1950 ). Sam Cooke (May 1964 B- side of the single Good Times ) or Otis Redding ( October 1966; Dictionary Of Soul LP ) have released Soul versions, in 4/4-time.
An almost literally translated into German version dates from British pop singer Alma Cogan (EMI # C - 22 735 ) reached the 10th place on the German charts with her first published on October 30, 1964 German single Tennessee Waltz / In My Life. The song contained the identical rock music track ( 4/4) of the orchestra Charles Blackwell, who had previously been used in March 1964 for the English version of the single The Tennessee Waltz / I Love You Too Much.
The pop singer Bärbel Wachholz in 1965 in East Germany with her German Cover version great success.
The song has also become a jazz standard: musicians such as Sonny Rollins, Bennie Wallace, Kirk Whalum or Norah Jones interpreted by Erskine Hawkins, the ballad.
The Tennessee Waltz received a BMI Award. A total of 10 million copies of the song were sold; Patti Page even goes out of 20 million.