Dinah Shore - Buttons and Bows

[citroenHvan]

Number 1 the week I was born, not that I'd remember...

[patoelbuenoss]

Im 13 years old and I swear for god, this is 100 times better than Justin Bieber

[ohgwangwangwan]

Used to hear this on the radio when very young, enjoyed it very memorable

[mateuszXYZYX]

Mafia II :D

[astroboirap]

i prefer frasier cranes version haha

[dobrovol]

I am ethnically half-Rusyn/half-Russian, was born in Ukraine in 1974, lived for 8 years in New Jersey, currently live in Moscow, Russia. And I absolutely LOVE this song! )) That's what all great art is about - it's eternal and you can appreciate it no matter what your ethnicity or nationality is. The song probably reminds everyone of some big decision to move "where cement grows", which most of us make every once in a while based on serious considerations like wanting to wear buttons & bows. )))

[RenMarieAustinMusic]

I love this woman. I wasn't born with her show was on the air, but I watched them on PBS when they had that special. I love her.

[TheBlueoverthemoon]

WOW!! What happy memories this brings back! My long departed Mammy introduced this to me as a youngster as one of her favourites! What great taste she had!

[Mokch64]

I was like 8 years old and our father had this song an a 78 ..me and my sister played it over and over and sung in our home-made English - a mixture of Swedish and English . About twenty-fiver years later I found myself sitting on a roof-top on a house in Pune, India, singing it with an Australian girl teaching me the real English lyrícs!! We drank Pepsi and giggled like two little school-girls...Now when I hear the song I get goose-bumps...

[OrodesIII]

Weren't songs just great back then?

[yedon68]

Dinah...always loved country music...and is wonderful here...!

[gogo31038]

This was the first record I ever bought. I purchased on my fifteenth birthday in Sept. 1948.The next day I bought Nat king Cole's 'Nature Boy'.

[televisewhatyouwant]

doo doo doo doo doo doo dose

Something and something

and buttons and bows!

-Kelsey Grammer

[dmanninja456]

frasier does this amazing

[rioamigo]

Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, who won a Best Song Oscar for it. They won another Best Song Oscar for writing "Whatever Will Be, Will Be" for Doris Day to sing in Alfred Hitchcock's THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH.

[tmr022]

Tenho de fazer um trabalho sobre isto. Lol.

[slayerpx]

This song was number 1 on the day my Mamma (grandma) was born.

I really like it :)

[chkjns]

just added this to 1948 - I have a music playlist for every year back to 1900. Take a trip back in time to any year you choose with my playlists and your mouse . . . .

[pgh45rpms]

When Dinah's Columbia record was becoming a hit (and it did reach Billboard's covetted No. 1 slot), another version was made by singer/actress Betty Garrett for MGM Records.

Betty was Red Skelton's comic foil in the Esther Williams film, "Neptune's Daughter". And in the 70's she was Irene Lorenzo on 'All in the Family', as well as Mrs. Babbish, the landlady, on 'Laverne & Shirley'.

[animoSolo]

what a voice !!! great song,simple yet very  ..wow!!!

[VealParmigiana]

One of my favorite songs. Probably my favorite song of the 1940s.

[1footonthedawn]

OH my. I watched the whole movie one night while babysitting. Now I must find a way to see the whole film though, and see if it is as good as I remember.

[casslinwilliams]

haha frasier does it better:)

[animoSolo]

hahaha true that!

[egyptianwarlock1840]

Wow great song, never heard this version before, i have the Connie Francis version which was never released on any single

[DENISMURRELL]

Bob Hope had the original version. It was featured in his 1948 movie with Jane Russell, called 'Paleface'. Dinah's version was the big hit. My mother told me that as a tiny infant, I loved the song and every time it was played on the radio, I would cry  when it finished. Thinking back now, I believe that it was Dinah's last note that enchanted me and for some reason, it still catches my attention and presses the old tear-in-the-eye button, even today.

[amysacrifice]

I just bought the Remember How Great...? record at a Goodwill and this song instantly became my favorite.

[zuditaka]

Had this as a 78 as a kid. Still got it in a cupboard somewhere! The flip side was the Merlin Sisters singing "My Happiness". That was very nice, too!

[MagcialWorldOfMusic]

The song was also featured on the 2-LP set entitled "The Fabulous 50's", but that song was released in 1948, not the 1950's, the LP seem to have the wrong year. Pretty weird!

[MagcialWorldOfMusic]

I used to have that LP "Remember how Great?", but I got rid of it. This LP was released on the label called Columbia Record Productions which was later became Columbia Special Products.

[dianamaryflorence]

This was one of my favorite songs by Dinah Shore back in the late 1940's. I have the record and I play it all of the time.

[happy4cali022]

it's good. A little bit pitchy in some parts but still besides its amazing!

[mikeferr107]

You were right. The LP version sounds great. Your camera records sound nicely, which helped. That's as clearly as I've ever heard that song played. I have only heard this song on my 78 rpm records of it. Thanks for the upload.

[Bettyboop888]

Wonderful memory of my childhood years. Thanks for the memory.

[IOwnMyRabbit]

i cant seem to download this song doing this for a performance

[twirlon]

my father in law used to sing this song, and we all used to listen in an amused fashion; now he is no more; and we love this song in nice memories of him

[BrianHamiltonTV]

"Buttons and Bows" was written by Jay Livingston, the lyrics by Ray Evans. The song was published in 1947 and appeared in the Bob Hope and Jane Russell movie The Paleface, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

[mm0bql]

Great song, I'm sure there was a video on Youtube with Dinah Shore singing this song. Can't seem to find it now.

Many thanks for this song anyway.

mm0bql

[fromthesidelines]

The album this is being played from was originally a "tie-in" to a 1961 TV special American Tobacco's Lucky Strike sponsored ["Remember How Great..?", adapted from their slogan, "Remember how great cigarettes used to taste? Luckies still do"], featuring "old favorites", performed in most cases by the original artists. Well, Columbia fashioned an album of some of their "big hits" from the '40s and '50s, and Lucky Strike offered the album as a "premium"...

[TonofRecords]

Cool history. Thanks! :D

[NiceNsmoothATYuToob]

this is such a cute little classic...i love Dinah Shore thanx for posting!

[zackpliskin]

What a charming little ditty this is. Adorably cute!

[tsamarnpan]

i love this song

[Hedgehoggy1983]

I saw Frasier singing this once :D but he didn't perform it that correctly :D

[Rollich]

Thanks for posting this great Oscar-winning song of 1948.

[prausch65]

My brother has a 78 of this song.

[goback3spaces]

My brother has a house in Brick, NJ.

[kotaro1959]

The good times when a movie shined.

[EOGGasman]

33.3, 45, or 78 Dinah always sounds great...lol

[johnmichaelpc]

I like this song and I like to listen. Thank you.