The Trolley Song

The Trolley Song is a song written by Ralph Blane (music) and Hugh Martin ( text ), which was published in 1944.

Blane and Martin wrote The Trolley Song for the MGM movie musical Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, directed by Vincente Minnelli ). The Trolley Song was featured in the film by Judy Garland, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted by Georgie Stoll and the choral and orchestral arrangement by Conrad Salinger. The studio scene takes place in a moving, busy tram. The song received a 1945 Oscar nomination for Best Song. The American Film Institute took the song to # 26 of his list AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs on.

The lyrics of The Trolley Song was created by accident when the song-writing team Martin and Blane initially had trouble writing an appropriate lyric for Judy Garland. Inspired by the song the photo of an old tram was in a book on the history of transport. Judy Garland's recording of the song appeared on Trolley shellac record (Brunswick S2228 ) coupled with The Boy Next Door. In 1944 the song by Jo Stafford / The Pied Pipers, Vaughn Monroe, The King Sisters, Guy Lombardo, Frankie Carle and Lionel Hampton was recorded the following year by Charlie Barnet, Eddie Brunner, Red Nichols, Glenn Miller and Belgium Gus Deloof. Other cover versions emerged in the 1950s, including Geraldo ( Parlophone F2055 ), Dave Brubeck (which, inter alia, with the song in 1955 at the Newport Jazz Festival occurred ), Beverly Kenney, Barbara Carroll, Bess Bonnier, Melba Liston, Buddy Collette and Tubby Hayes. In later years, The Trolley Song interpreted, inter alia, Chris Hunter, Rebecca Kilgore, Ralph Sharon, Stacey Kent, Gene Di Novi, Ehud Asherie, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Dave Brubeck, Herb Alpert and Sarah Vaughan.