Button Up Your Overcoat

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"Button Up Your Overcoat"
Button Up Your Overcoat (1928) sheet music.pdf
Sheet music, 1928
Song
Released1928
Songwriter(s) Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown
External audio
Nuvola apps arts.svg "Button Up Your Overcoat" sung by Helen Kane at the Internet Archive Digitized from a 78 single released in 1929.
Nuvola apps arts.svg "Button Up Your Overcoat" sung by Zelma O'Neal at the Internet Archive . With Al Goodman and his "Follow Thru" Orchestra. Digitized from a 78 single released in 1929.

"Button Up Your Overcoat" is a popular song. The music was written by Ray Henderson, the lyrics by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown. The song was published in 1928, and was first performed later that same year by vocalist Ruth Etting. However, the most famous rendition of this song was recorded early the following year by singer Helen Kane, who was at the peak of her popularity at the time. Kane's childlike voice and Bronx dialect eventually became the inspiration for the voice of cartoon character Betty Boop (most famously using Kane's famous catchphrase Boop Boop a Doop).

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From January 9, 1929, to December 21, 1929, Jack Haley and Zelma O'Neal sang "Button Up Your Overcoat" on Broadway in the musical, Follow Thru. They reprised the song in the film version which opened on September 27, 1930, and was one of the first movies in Technicolor.

Other recordings

Film appearances

In 1969, the song was parodied in a television commercial for Contac cold capsules. In that commercial, a group of blonde chorus girls known as "The Cold Diggers of 1969" sing and dance to "Button Up Your Overcoat" in a Busby Berkeley - style production number.

Father Mulcahy and Hawkeye sing "Button Up Your Overcoat" in episode 20, season 6 of M*A*S*H, "Mail Call Three".

In 1997, the Kidsongs Kids and the Biggles sang "Button Up Your Overcoat" as part of the Kidsongs: I Can Do It! VHS/DVD.

Helen Kane's 1929 cover of the song appears anachronistically in the 2013 video game BioShock Infinite , set in 1912, and can be heard in the Downtown Emporia level. [11]

The song was added to the 1993 revision of the musical Good News .

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References

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  8. ↑ Squeeze Play album by John Serry performing "Button Up Your Overcoat" on worldcat.org
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