Sunny Side Up

DESCRIPTION: "Keep the sunny side up, up, And the other side too." Soldiers march, sailors sing. "Turn around and touch your toes" like the Eskimos and Japanese; "touch your chin" like an Indian.
AUTHOR: Original words and music: Bud DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson (source: copyright)
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (film, "Sunny Side Up")
KEYWORDS: derivative playparty
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 127, "Sunny Side Up" (4 texts, 1 tune)
Roud #18992
NOTES [113 words]: Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame: "From the moment the film 'The Best Things in Life Are Free' was released in 1929, little girls recognized that one of its hit songs, 'Sunny Side Up', might have been specially written for them." Lyrics are by Buddy G. DeSilva and Lew Brown, music by Ray Henderson (source: "Sunnyside Up" at the Internet Movie Database site). - BS
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 1929, estimates that this was the ninth most popular song in America in December 1929 (#1 for the year being Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown's "The Wedding of the Painted Doll"). - RBW
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