Come On-a My House
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"Come On-a My House" | ||||
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Single by Rosemary Clooney | ||||
B-side | "Rose of the Mountain"[1] | |||
Released | 1951 | |||
Recorded | June 6, 1951[1][2] | |||
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Length | 2:02 | |||
Ross Bagdasarian, William Saroyan | ||||
Producer(s) | Mitch Miller | |||
Rosemary Clooney singles chronology | ||||
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"Come On-a My House" is a song performed by
It was not performed until the 1950 off-Broadway production of The Son. The song did not become a hit until the release of Clooney's recording. It was probably Saroyan's only effort at popular songwriting, and it was one of Bagdasarian's few well-known works that was not connected to his best-known creation, Alvin and the Chipmunks. Bagdasarian, as David Seville, went on to much fame with the #1 hit "The Witch Doctor" and his Chipmunks recordings.
Rosemary Clooney's original hit version
The song was first performed during 1950 in an off-Broadway production of The Son, but did not become a hit until the release of Clooney's recording.
A major hit for Clooney in 1951, it was the first of a number of dialect songs she did. She recorded it in the early part of 1951, with
Clooney sang the song in the 1953 film The Stars Are Singing, in a scene where she ended up mocking it, remarking that no one would listen to it.
Although she performed "Come On-a My House" for many years, Clooney later confessed that she hated the song. She said she had been given a practice record of it and had told Miller it was not for her. Miller gave her an ultimatum: record the song or be fired. During a 1988 interview, Clooney said that whenever she listened to the recording, she could hear the anger in her voice from being forced to sing it.[4][5]
Cover versions
- American country-music artist K. T. Oslin covered the song on her 2001 album, Live Close By, Visit Often. Her version reached number 40 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts. It spent six weeks on the chart before peaking in June 2001. It is her only song to chart on the Dance Club songs list.[6]
- Actress and singer Bernadette Peters covered the song playing concert hall manager Gloria Windsor in Mozart in the Jungle in 2015.[7]
Parody
In late 1951,
Also in 1951, Mickey Katz released a Yiddish parody for Capitol Records.
In 1974, American rock band Sparks titled their third album Kimono My House, a pun on the song's title.
In 1978, on the episode of
References
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- ^ Scapeletti, Christopher (1998). "The Chipmunks/Alvin & the Chipmunks". In Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds.). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 231.
- ^ "Lears 290". www.rosemaryclooney.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ Steyn, Mark (1998-04-09). "The Worst Songwriter of All Time". Slate.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-24. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
- ^ ""Come-On-A My House" chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ "Bernadette Peters' 'Come On a My House' from 'Mozart in the Jungle' Released". Film Music Reporter. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ "Major Topper". IMDb. 27 March 1978.