Buttons and Bows

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"Buttons and Bows" is a popular 1947 American song, best known from the film *The Paleface*, that became a major hit and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf song
associatedPerformer Betty Garrett
Bob Hope
Dinah Shore
Evelyn Knight
The Dinning Sisters
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Song
awardYear 1949
basedOnWork short story “The Paleface” (film source material)
composer Jay Livingston
countryOfOrigin United States
featuredInFilm The Paleface
filmReleaseYear 1948
firstPopularizedBy Bob Hope
genre popular music
traditional pop
hasAward Oscar for Best Original Song
hasCulturalOrigin American popular culture
hasEra post–World War II popular music
hasNotableChartSuccess United States pop charts
linked to: Billboard
hasTheme contrast between city sophistication and rural life
hasType film song
popular standard
includedIn American songbook of the 1940s
isFrom film The Paleface soundtrack
language English
lyricist Ray Evans
lyricsBy Ray Evans
lyricsLanguage English
medium vocal music
musicBy Jay Livingston
notableFor being a major hit in the late 1940s
winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song
originalMedium film song
partOf soundtrack of The Paleface
publicationDate 1947
recordedBy Betty Garrett
Dinah Shore
Evelyn Knight
Frankie Laine
Gene Autry
Kaye Starr
linked to: Kay Starr

Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra
The Andrews Sisters
The Dinning Sisters
usedIn Hollywood film music
yearWritten 1947

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Jay Livingston notableWork Buttons and Bows
Jay Livingston academyAwardWinningSong Buttons and Bows
Ray Evans notableWork Buttons and Bows
The Paleface featuresSong Buttons and Bows
Dinah Shore notableWork Buttons and Bows
Jacob Harold Levison notableWork Buttons and Bows
Jay Livingston notableWork Buttons and Bows
subject linked to: Levison
Livingston and Evans notableWork Buttons and Bows
Frances Rose Shore notableSong Buttons and Bows