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Hundreds of versions of the song have been recorded and it has been featured in many media. [4] [25] Mercer recorded the song in 1974 for his album My Huckleberry Friend. [26] In 2007, saxophonist Dave Koz recorded a version from his standards music album, At the Movies, sung by Barry Manilow.
Recorded just two years before his death, ...My Huckleberry Friend features, by and large, updated arrangements of most of Mercer's most popular tunes as interpreted by the author himself. The instrumentation relies heavily (but not exclusively) on a flute-lead horn section, electric piano and latin tinged percussion.
Columbo also sings the song in the 1978 episode "Make Me A Perfect Murder". [16] A mangled rendition of "Darling Clementine" is animated coonhound Huckleberry Hound's signature tune, sung in most episodes of the cartoon series The Huckleberry Hound Show. But it often ends up as "Oh my darling what's her name". [17] [18]
Their version peaked at number thirty-five and was their seventeenth and final Top 40 hit [14] In Canada the song reached number thirty-seven. [ 15 ] Johnny Mercer (recorded January 1974, released on the album My Huckleberry Friend .)
Harold Arlen described the song as "another typical Arlen tapeworm" – a "tapeworm" being the trade slang for any song which went over the conventional 32-bar length. He called it "a wandering song. [Lyricist] Johnny [Mercer] took it and wrote it exactly the way it fell. Not only is it long – fifty-eight bars – but it also changes key.
"My best friend and role model, Charm La’Donna, was the one that did the choreography for this song in the show," Trainor continued. "I couldn’t think of a more perfect person for that role ...
Moseley Shoals is the second album by the British rock group Ocean Colour Scene which was released during the Britpop era. The album reached #2 in the UK charts, and amassed 92 weeks on chart, making it the band's most successful album in terms of weeks on chart, despite a later album reaching #1.
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