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"Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

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It was first introduced in 1946 in the musical St. Louis Woman . In the musical the song was sung by a female character of easy virtue, played by Ruby Hill, and the lyrics start out, "Free and easy". The score by Arlen provides a languid accompaniment, not dissimilar to that of "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", also by Arlen and Mercer. [1]

Barbra Streisand Recording

Barbra Streisand recorded the song for The Second Barbra Streisand Album in 1963. The song appeared on the album twice: first, as the individual song to open the album; then to close the album as a medley with "Like a Straw in the Wind".

Notable Recordings

Many well-known vocalists have recorded the song including:

Footnotes

  1. Wilder, Alec (1990). American Popular Song . Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. p.  282. ISBN   0-19-501445-6.
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