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"Ole Buttermilk Sky" was a big hit in 1946 for big band leader and old-time radio personality Kay Kyser (1905–1985), plus other artists. It has been covered by a multitude of artists / singers over the years and decades since.
Perry Como had four songs on the year-end top singles list, including "Prisoner of Love", the number one song of 1946. Bing Crosby had four songs on the year-end top singles list. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1946 according to retail sales. [1]
Carmichael's "Ole Buttermilk Sky" of 1946, was an Academy Award nominee for an "Oscar" in the following year of March 1947, with the eponymous theme song from the Western film Canyon Passage (1946), starring Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward and Ward Bond, in which he co-starred as a ukulele and guitar-playing balladeer musician and ...
He joined the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1946. "Ole Buttermilk Sky" was written for the 1946 film Canyon Passage, and was sung by Carmichael in the movie. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. It became a big hit for Kay Kyser that year.
They ride off into the sunset of the picturesque frontier Oregon scenery with ballad singer / guitar player and sometime miner Hi Linnet (Hoagy Carmichael) trotting behind on his mule warbling the film's eponymous theme song "'Ole Buttermilk Sky" (which was a popular big hit by Carmichael, Kay Kyser and others in that time period of the late ...
US Billboard 1946 #13, US #1 for 1 weeks, 17 total weeks, 289 points, Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 15: Freddy Martin and His Orchestra "To Each His Own" [8] RCA Victor 20-1921: 1946 () July 1946 () US Billboard 1946 #14, US #1 for 2 weeks, 16 total weeks, 255 points, CashBox #4 16: Kay Kyser and His Orchestra "Ole Buttermilk Sky" [7] Columbia 37073
The song was written by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman for the series, of which 26 cartoons were produced by Famous Studios for Paramount Pictures between 1943 and 1948. Carroll, with an ad-hoc group called the Swantones, backed Frank Sinatra on one 1950 single, "Life is So Peculiar".
In the latter half of the 1930s, leaders of big bands sought ways to differentiate their groups from others who played similar music. Successful variations on the standard format of just playing one song after another could quickly move bands from "being merely late-hour fillers" without sponsors to having sponsored broadcasts in better time slots.