Friday 28 January 2011

I Don't Care if the Sun Don't shine - Patti Page - Dean Martin

I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine is a popular song, written by Mack David. The most popular version was done by Patti Page in 1950. The Page recording was issued by Mercury Records as catalog number 5396, and first reached the Billboard chart on May 20, 1950, lasting 9 weeks and peaking at #8. It was her first Top 10 hit. Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don't_Care_if_the_Sun_Don't_Shine




A Dean Martin version of the song was featured in the 1953 film Scared Stiff starring Martin and Jerry Lewis. The Patti Page recording is featured in the movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Actor Guy Pearce also briefly sings excerpts of this song in the film, as does Terrence Stamp. The first Spanish-language version was recorded by Marco Tulio Sanchez, the precursor of rockabilly in his country Colombia during the eighties.



The song was also one of the first recordings by Elvis Presley.
Robert Matthew Walker - in ELVIS - A Study in Music
" the song is unusual in that it includes bongos - possibly played by DJ Fontana - who had been part of Presley's road band for sometime. The song is similar to the faster version of Blue Moon of Kentucky but less innovative.

Elvis's studio version on You Tube



Written by " Mack David (July 5, 1912 – December 30, 1993) was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs.He was particularly well known for his work on the Disney films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland, and for the mostly-English lyrics through which Édith Piaf's signature song "La Vie en rose" gained much of its familiarity among native speakers of English. - READ More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_David

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