When It's Springtime in the Rockies

DESCRIPTION: "When it's springtime in the Rockies I'm coming back to you, Little sweetheart of the mountains With your bonnie eyes of blue." The birds sing there; the flowers are beautiful; the singer will come to be with the one he loves
AUTHOR: Ords: Mary Hale Woolsey and Milton Taggart / Music: Robert Sauer (source: Gardner; other sources omit Taggart's name)
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (sheet music, according to Gardner)
KEYWORDS: love separation home
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland)
Roud #18519
RECORDINGS:
Gene Autry, "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" (ARC 8-03-51/Columbia 20865/Conqueror 8982/Vocalion 03448, 1937)
Bud & Joe Billings, "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" (Victor V-40088/Montgomery Ward M1412, 1929)
Leake County Revellers, "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" (Columbia 15648-D, 1930)
Frank Luther/Carson Robison Trio, "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" (Oriole 1749/APex 41064, 1929)
Mac & Bob (Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner), "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" (Brunswick 439/Supertone S2034, 1930)
Chris Miles, "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #542, recorded 03/14/2023)
The Ranch Boys, "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" (Decca 5016, 1934)
Red River Dave (Dave McEnery), "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" (Decca 5853/Coral 64013, 1940)
NOTES [79 words]: There was a 1942 musical "Springtime in the Rockies," but according to its Wikipedia entry, it did not include this song.
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 251, estimates that this was the most popular song in America in 1930 (reaching #1 in June of that year).
These days, the song seems to be remembered for having been recorded by Gene Autry, but that was later. - RBW
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File: DPio542

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