Button Up Your Overcoat

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"Button Up Your Overcoat" is a popular 1920s American pop standard, best known as a cheerful, jazzy tune associated with singer Ruth Etting.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf pop standard
song
associatedPerformer Eddie Cantor NERFINISHED
Helen Kane NERFINISHED
Ruth Etting NERFINISHED
composer Ray Henderson NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
decade 1920s
firstPerformanceIn musical Follow Thru
genre jazz
popular music
hasForm verse-chorus form
hasMusicalStyle cheerful
jazzy
hasNotableLyric Button up your overcoat, when the wind is free NERFINISHED
Take good care of yourself, you belong to me
includedInRepertoireOf Eddie Cantor NERFINISHED
Helen Kane NERFINISHED
Ruth Etting NERFINISHED
isStandardOfEra Tin Pan Alley era
language English
lyricist B. G. DeSylva NERFINISHED
Lew Brown NERFINISHED
lyricTheme advice about keeping warm and healthy
lighthearted humor
musicalTheatreSongFrom Follow Thru NERFINISHED
notableRecordingBy Ruth Etting NERFINISHED
partOf Broadway musical Follow Thru NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1928
writtenByTeam DeSylva, Brown and Henderson NERFINISHED

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Ray Henderson notableWork Button Up Your Overcoat
Ruth Etting notableWork Button Up Your Overcoat
Ruth Etting performerOf Button Up Your Overcoat