Rosemary Clooney With Buddy Cole & His Orchestra - Hey There This Ole House

ROSEMARY CLOONEY - HEY THERE / THIS OLD HOUSE - COLUMBIA 4-40266 - 1954
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Very nice. A simpler time with pleasant memories.

I have that same record

Anyone else think this sounds like the Muppet Show theme song?

I have old house too thank´s to memories!!????

Listening to this while fixing up my own old house that was originally built the year this song came out.

My earliest musical memories were this and Arthur Godfrey's I'm Looking Over a 4 Leaf Clover. On 78 of course

I think Roemary was a aunt from George Clooney

My Favorite Song

This was actually a gospel song. Of course they changed the lyrics for the secular market. It actually is a very sad song about the mortal house of the body that houses our soul. This is the video about how it was written. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNzcGxl5nk8&ab_channel=GordonT

If anyone wants to hear the Southern gospel treatment by the Cathedrals, which is wonderful, here you go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoghigJ1MBA&ab_channel=GaitherVEVO

I had no idea that Shakin Steven's version was a cover until I heard this version.

OH yeah, the Clooney's lived over in Middlesboro, KY, where George Clooney also lived, Rosemary was his cousin, I believe. My grandparents closest town was Middlesboro and I remember how excited they were when a Walmart was built there. I was not, because I knew what it meant. Another famous person from Middlesboro was the 6 million dollar man - Lee Majors, who moved there when he was two. If you get a chance, you should visit Cudjo's Cave, also the Chain(ed) Rock, because there are wonderful views from there. Also take the "old road" from Middlesboro over Cumberland Gap, it is such a scenic way with great vistas!

My grandpa had the 78 with the two songs, This Ol' house and Hey There ... As a child, I spent my summers with them, and I took great pleasure in playing it on his old record player because "in the hills of Kaintuck, you ain't got much radio". He only had two records, and I can't remember the other.
My grandpa could match Buddy Cole's voice as a deep bass, and he loved to sing to me as we took drives along the back roads through the Appalachian mountain curves. His voice lost a bit of timbre as he grew older, but not really very much, I surely didn't notice it then.
He was my favorite grandparent for all of the 35-40 years that I knew him well. He died peacefully (if there is such a thing), a few months after he lost his beloved Lucille, my grandma. They had been married almost 70 years. I did not find out until much later that in his younger years in the Navy, he had been an alcoholic, which explains why he would not drink anything alcoholic, at all.
I was always very proud of his wonderful voice and that he had sung on vaudeville. And they spoiled me to death!! And, in case you can't tell, he was my male role model for how a good husband should act, because my father failed miserably at that.

Wow....her voice had so much character,,we need singers like her to bring today's dead music to life.

A great song for the This Old House TV show!

Sounds like country music

Interesting that they got Thurl for the bass lines on both popular versions of this tune, considering they were recorded for different labels, lol! That kinda thing didn't happen that often.

Love everything about it!

I remember hearing this on WPTR Legends 1540 and on B101 here after WLKW was taken off the air.

Recorded on May 22, 1954.

My grandmother used to sing this song while playing the banjo.

Stan Freeman's harpsichord, right? Fantastic record!