Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research. Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer. Set In 1950s Morocco, 'Tangerine' Is A Dark Tale Of Twisted Love Books Curl Up With 'The Tuscan Child,' A Truly Cozy Mystery Author Interviews Aviator Beryl Markham Soars Again In 'Paris Wife'. Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World. ^ a b "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #7".The tune later became the jingle for Pillsbury's Figurines, a diet aid, during the 1970s.The opening line "Tangerine, she is all they say" was replaced by "There she goes, she's a Sego girl." The Pet Milk company used the melody for a 1960s liquid diet product called Sego.In 1976, All In the Family gave a nod to the song in the episode "Archie's Operation", when Archie Bunker burst into it repeatedly to interrupt son-in-law Mike's efforts to help pay for Archie's surgery.The tune was featured as background music in the films Double Indemnity (1944), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).More than 100 acts have recorded "Tangerine", including such notable artists as: It also reached #11 on the US, Easy Listening chart.Ĭhart performance The Salsoul Orchestra Chart (1976)
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In the movie at that point, the line is "And I've seen times when Tangerine / Had the bourgeoisie believing she were queen."Ī disco instrumental version by the Salsoul Orchestra brought the song back into the U.S.
On the record, Eberly sings "And I've seen toasts to Tangerine / Raised in every bar across the Argentine," the lyric that became standard. The lyrics in this version differ slightly from those in the movie. The record first reached the Billboard charts on April 10, 1942, and lasted 15 weeks on the chart, including six weeks at #1. The recording was released in January 1942 by Decca Records as catalog number 4123. The most popular recorded version of the song was made by the performers who introduced it in the film: the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with vocalists Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly. The song portrays a fictitious South American woman with universally recognized allure: "When she dances by, / Señoritas stare / And caballeros sigh." As one of Mercer's biographers explained the initial popularity: "Latin America, the one part of the world not engulfed in World War II, became a favorite topic for songs and films for Americans who wanted momentarily to forget about the conflagration." Charted recordings "Tangerine" was introduced to a broad audience in the 1942 movie The Fleet's In, produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Schertzinger just before his death, and starring Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, Eddie Bracken, singer Cass Daley, and Betty Hutton in her feature film debut. The song was published in 1941 and soon became a jazz standard.Ģ: 57 (single version) 4:46 (album version) The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Vocals by Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly singles chronology 1941 song by Victor Schertzinger and Johnny Mercer "Tangerine"
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