ALICE BLUE GOWN
Created on 09/07/2021Latest update on 07/03/2022
Artist: Edith Day
Author: Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy
Label: Victor
Year: 1920
In musical Irene, on West End and on Broadway. It's all about the kind of blue used in the paintings of Alice Roosevelt, Theodore's daughter. The gown worn in this musical became the talk of the town.
Covers:
- 1920:
- 1929:
- 1936:
- 1940:
- 1940:
- 1940:
Frankie Masters [top 10 US]
- 1940:
Martha Tilton [in film Irene]
- 1948:
- 1951:
- 1956:
Lou Bandy [as Bloes Van Zij]
- 1957:
- 1959:
- 1960:
- 1965:
- 1966:
Johnny Hoes [as Het Bloesje Van Blauw]
- 1968:
Willy Alberti [as Het Bloesje Van Zij]
- 1973:
Debbie Reynolds [on lp Irene (Broadway Cast Revival)]
- 1977:
Ted de Braak [as Bloesje Van Lichtblauwe Zij]
- 1998:
Anna McGarrigle [her mother Gaby's favorite song, sung by her granddaughter Lily Lanken with grandson Rufus Wainwright at the piano]
