A Gal in Calico

A Gal in Calico, a pop song by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Leo Robin is written (text) and was published in 1946.

Use of the song and first recordings

Schwartz and Robin wrote the western- accented song for the film musical The Time, the Place and the Girl (Eng. The sky is full of violins, Director: David Butler), in which it is sung by Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson and Martha Vickers. After its publication Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and The Pied Pipers had the most success with the song; they kammen at # 1 in Your Hit Parade. Also, the Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Tex Beneke, Bing Crosby ( with The Calico Kids and John Scott Trotter ), Benny Goodman cover versions were successful in the U.S. charts.

The rhythmically -oriented song in A Gal in Calico begins with the verse: Met a gal in calico / Down in Santa Fe / Used to be her Sunday beau / ' Til I rode away / Do I want her / Do I.

The song was nominated in the category Best Song for an Oscar, to finally Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert in 1948 were for the song Zip -A -Dee- Doo - Dah.

Cover versions

In June 1946, the song was covered by Louis Prima; followed in the same year versions of Charlie Spivak, Hal McIntyre, Simon Brehm, Skinnay Ennis. 1951 took him Kurt Widmann and his orchestra in Berlin. Ahmad Jamal took him into his repertoire; He was recorded in the 1950s by Fred Astaire, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Jack Diéval, Jonah Jones, Richie Kamuca, Stan Levey, Dave Pell, Oscar Pettiford and Oscar Peterson. Influenced by Jamal's version took Miles Davis A Gal in Calico on his early album The Musings of Miles. Later A Gal in Calico also interpreted Herb Geller, Pete Jolly, Jessica Williams and Manhattan Transfer. Tom Lord lists 77 cover versions of the title