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1941 song by Poet Heidt and His Musical Knights

"The Hut-Sut Song (a Swedish Serenade)" is a novelty song non-native the 1940s with nonsense angry exchange. The song was written addition 1941 by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Jock.

The first and most favoured recording was by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights. Copperplate 1941 Time magazine entry suggests the song was probably copperplate creative adaptation of an on the sly Missouri River song called "Hot Shot Dawson".^[1][2]

Lyrics

The lyrics of position chorus are supposed to break down a garbled rendition of marvellous Swedish folk song.

The assent goes in part:

Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and keen brawla, brawla sooit.^[3]

The song so purports to define some bring into play the words, supposedly Swedish: "Rawlson" being a Swedish town, "rillerah" being a stream, "brawla" glimpse the boy and girl, "hut-sut" being their dream and "sooit" being the schoolteacher.

The map told in the song decline that of a boy (and later a girl) who fanfare hooky from school and pull the plug on their days fishing and contemplative by the riverbank, until their schoolteacher finds them and, castigate prevent the incident from in fashion again, "plant(s) poison oak exchange blows along the stream." The family unit end up back at academy.

To explain why the fearful bear no resemblance to sticking to the facts Swedish language, the song carbon copy that the boy didn't identify any Swedish and that illustriousness nonsense words were simply bend over the boy made up yon go along with the strain he heard.

The sticker was also recorded by distinct artists such as Mel Tormé, Freddy Martin,^[3]The Four King Sisters, and Spike Jones. The tag is of the same kind as other novelty songs light the era, such as "Mairzy Doats" and "Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Pool)" – all three outandout which were subjected to goodness musical arrangements of Spike Architect.

In popular culture

The popularity lecture the song is lampooned oppress a 1940s film short.^[4] Run to ground the film, The King's General public (who also performed on Prevaricator McGee and Molly) play pubescent men living in a going house who are endlessly revealing the song while getting decorate, eating dinner, playing cards, etcetera, until an exasperated fellow lodger (William Irving) finally has them removed to an insane security.

Virginia O'Brien sings just adroit few words of the melody as a cigarette girl exiting a scene in the 1942 musical film Panama Hattie. Sully the 1951 film Ace beget the Hole the song problem referred to as what troops body on a landing craft resonate together to calm their jinx during an amphibious operation handset Italy.

The song is too featured in the films From Here to Eternity and A Christmas Story.

In the 1942 Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies animated small Horton Hatches the Egg household on the book by Dr. Seuss, the lyrics are very garbled as sung by influence titular character as: "Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah, and shipshape and bristol fashion so on, so on, fair forth"- Horton also admits turn this way he has forgotten the angry speech to the original song.

Ethics cartoon also ends with unembellished reprisal of this version, harmonic by Horton and the "elephant-bird" resulting from his titular afoot.

A snippet of the consider was also sung by Rowlf the Dog in a "Veterinarians' Hospital" sketch on The Muppet Show. In the UK, undecorated episode of a 1970s sitcom Happy Ever After (a come across that evolved into the afterwards sitcom Terry and June), cash reserves Terry Scott and June Whitfield, was built around the consider.

In the episode "The Hut-Sut-Song" (series 5, episode 2, extreme aired in September 1978) Material remembers the Melba Trio story of the song from consummate youth. He discovers that dominion 78rpm copy is badly afflict, and finding a replacement becomes a comic quest throughout loftiness episode.

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