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"A Bushel and a Peck" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, [1] which opened at the 46th Street Theater on November 24, 1950. It was performed on stage by Vivian Blaine and a women's chorus as a nightclub act at the Hot Box. It is the first of two ...
Though Lee and Manners are given credit for writing the song, a former bandleader from Dupont, Pennsylvania, said he had written and played the tune, though without lyrics, in the 1920s. Paul Motiska said his composition, "The Laughing Polka", became a regional favorite after his big band , the Melodions, was featured on a Scranton radio ...
A basket filled level to the top was a bushel. A basket filled to the top but overfilled to a height where it overflowed was considered to be a bushel and a peck, a generous measure (a similar concept to a baker's dozen). Hence, the old song " I love you, a bushel and a peck...." meant "I am overflowing with love for you".
"A Bushel and a Peck" Frank Loesser: September 13, 1950 TOP 20 HIT IN 1950 (with David Rose's orchestra) "But Beautiful" Jimmy Van Heusen: Johnny Burke: September 26, 1956 from the album Day by Day "But Not for Me" George Gershwin: Ira Gershwin: September 26, 1956 from the album Day by Day "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" Gus Edwards: Edward ...
Gregory Peck played beloved father Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and according to his children, the Oscar-winning actor wasn’t too far off the mark in real life. “Of all the children ...
The lyrics were first written by Murray Wizell, who then asked Irving Melsher to write the music. Soon after the song was written, Wizell and Melsher then became engaged in a legal dispute over the ownership of the song. [ 1 ]
“Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him.” — Proverb and adage originating before Cicero, who quotes a version of it in “De Amicitia” ... “I will love you as an oven loves ...
b/w "If You Could Care" 25 "The Picnic Song" b/w "I've Got a Heart Filled with Love (For You Dear)" 20 "Just Say I Love Her" b/w "If Anybody Does" 24 "A Bushel and a Peck" b/w "So Long Sally" 29 1951 "Because of You" b/w "Andiamo" 17 "I Want to Be Near You" b/w "I Will Never Change" 30 All of the above charted tracks were released on 78 only: 1952