This Old House: Stuart Hamblen
This song was written by Stuart Hamblen, and published in 1954.
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June 27, 2010 at 11:02 am
This was a very familiar song to me as a kid…I can only think that it was a favorite of Bob Steele, a morning DJ institution on WTIC in Hartford, CT.
June 28, 2010 at 11:10 am
J,
My mother had an album on which Rosemary Clooney sang this. She was the only one I heard for the longest time. I found this by happenstance and was glad of it. I love posting the writer of the song.
June 27, 2010 at 11:04 am
yousendit link:
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June 27, 2010 at 11:46 am
This was a hughe hit over here, but with a swedish text. In swedish it´s about a person that is forced to move since the house is going to be torn down. It ends :So I say farewell and big tears goes down my cheek. It´s a bit strange really, the text is quite sad, but I´ve always felt it was a happy song 🙂 🙂
June 27, 2010 at 8:33 pm
When I was a kid, it was the Rosemary Clooney version, including some incredible bass vocals on the choruses, that caught my ear.
http://s0.ilike.com/play#Rosemary+Clooney:This+Ole+House:123043:s19591280.8814116.14033571.0.2.250%2Cstd_7ceacb3cfd8848aea4b0fe88055de144
Good background here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Ole_House
June 28, 2010 at 11:14 am
Mark,
I totally remember the Rosie Clooney version. I heard it all the time from my mother’s hifi.
I like knowing how songs come to be.
I even have the Cathedral Quartet version.
June 28, 2010 at 11:15 am
Christer,
I think the memories he describe make it happy in parts. It is exactly how you hear it-the house is being torn down.