American Beauty Rose (song)

"American Beauty Rose" is a 1950 song written by Hal David, Redd Evans and Arthur Altman,[1] and popularized by Frank Sinatra as a charting single in 1961.[2] Composer and critic Alec Wilder mentioned the song in passing in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950, noting that " Sinatra could make every song but "Jealous Lover" and "American Beauty Rose" sound reputable."[3]

References

  1. ↑ William Emmett Studwell, Mark Baldin -The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras 2000 0789009145 "However, nothing by Evans, including "American Beauty Rose" (1950, by Hal David, Arthur Altman, and Evans), and ..."
  2. ↑ Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art - Page 180 068419368X Will Friedwald - 1995 "Best of all, Sinatra joyously milks a libretto that funnily and punnily compares girls to flowers. "American Beauty Rose" charted, but hardly high enough to reverse the trend of steadily worsening sales for Sinatra discs that had already started."
  3. ↑ Wilder, Alec (1972). American Popular Song. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195014457.
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