[78-L] Easter Parade and Smile and Show Your Dimple

[RAY KILCOYNE]

From: "Eric Goldberg"
I was listening to a download of the song, so I didn't have the credits 
available to me. Thank you for the info.....
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David Ewen writes in his book "American Popular Songs"..........
The EASTER PARADE melody was used by Irving Berlin in 1917 for SMILE AND 
SHOW YOUR DIMPLE.  That song had been a failure, and was soon forgotten. 
Then in 1933, while working on the score for "As Thousands Cheer", Berlin 
needed a tune for a Fifth Avenue parade scene.  Berlin recalled, "I dug back 
into my own catalogue to 1917 and found that I had written SMILE AND SHOW 
YOUR DIMPLE".  That became EASTER PARADE.  Introduced by Marilyn Miller and 
Clifton Webb in the first act finale of "As Thousands Cheer".
RayK