Lavender Blue

Lavender Blue ( Alternative title Lavender Blue ( Diddle Diddle ) and Lavender's Blue ) is a song by Eliot Daniel (music) and Larry Morey ( text ), which was based on an English folk song and was released in 1949 as a Disney movie song.

The Folk Song

The earliest version of the song appeared in a song sheet, which was printed in England 1672-1685, under the title Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers. In the song the singer tells his lover that she must love him because he loved her so much. The first lines of the song are:

Lavender's green, diddle, diddle, Lavender's blue You must love me, diddle, diddle, cause I love you, I heard one say, diddle, diddle, since I came hither, That you and I, diddle, diddle, must lie together.

From this emerged the children's song from the song collection Songs for the Nursery ( 1805):

Similar versions appeared in collections of rhymes during the 19th century.

The movie editing and cover versions

Daniel Morey and edited " Lavender Blue " for the Walt Disney Production A Champion to fall in love ( original title So Dear to My Heart, 1949, directed by Harold D. Schuster and Hamilton Luske ). The main characters are played by the child actor Bobby Driscoll and Luana Patten as well as in the role of Uncle Hiram Douglas folk singer Burl Ives, who introduces also Lavender Blue in the film. The song received a 1950 Oscar nomination for Best Song.

Burt Ives, " Capt. Stubby & The Buccaneers " published the song Lavender Blue ( Dilly Dilly ) at Brunswick ( 04066 ) coupled with Billy Boy and on ( Disneyland 130), coupled with the Chim Chim Cheree Mary Poppins song. In 1944 created numerous cover versions of the song in the field of popular music, including in England by Donald Peers (His Master's Voice B.9772 ), Joe Loss and His Orchestra (vocal: Elizabeth Baley; HMV BD6043 ) and in the United States of Sammy Kaye (Victor 203100 ), Margaret Whiting, Vera Lynn (London 310) and Dinah Shore (Columbia 38299 ), which had with Lavender Blue 1949/50, a number -one hit in Australia. 1959 was a produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Soul version of Sammy Turner ( Bigtop 45-3016 ). Already in 1949 interpreted several jazz musicians the song, including Lester Young and Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra .. The song was in later years by Bobby Vee (1961 ), Eddie Barefield (1962), Bobby Vinton (1964 ), Leon Russell ( Wedding Album 1976) was added and the British rock band Marillion ( Misplaced Childhood, 1985) adapted.