I'll Be All Smiles Tonight

DESCRIPTION: The singer is carefully dressing and bedecking herself with flowers for a wedding -- the wedding of her false true love to another girl. She intends to put on a fine face: "Though my heart will break tomorrow, I'll be all smiles tonight."
AUTHOR: T. B. Ransom (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1879 (sheet music published by T. B. Harms & Co.)
KEYWORDS: love wedding infidelity clothes
FOUND IN: US(MA,SE,So) Australia
REFERENCES (9 citations):
Randolph 812, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (2 texts)
High-OldOldFolkSongs, p. 20, "All Smiles To Night" (1 text)
Browne-AlabamaFolkLyric 116, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (1 text plus an excerpt and mention of 7 more, 1 tune)
Owens-TexasFolkSongs-1ed, pp. 138-140, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 691, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (1 short text, 1 tune)
Newman/Devlin-NeverWithoutASong, pp. 269-270, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (1 text)
Meredith/Covell/Brown-FolkSongsOfAustraliaVol2, pp. 32-34, 40-41, 174-175, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (2 texts plus a fragment, 3 tunes)
cf. Gardner/Chickering-BalladsAndSongsOfSouthernMichigan, p. 479, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (source notes only)
ADDITIONAL: John Burke, _Burke's Christmas Songster 1920_, self-published, 1918 (PDF available on the Memorial University of Newfoundland site), p. 14, "I'll Be All Smiles To-Night, Love" (1 text)
Roud #3715
RECORDINGS:
Allen Bros. "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (Victor V-40210, 1930)
Carter Family, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (Bluebird B-5529, 1934; Montgomery Ward M-4497, c. 1934)
Chuck Wagon Gang, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (ARC 7-03-58/vocalion 03426/Conqueror 8963, 1937; rec. 1936)
Luther B. Clarke [Blue Ridge Highballers], "I'll Be All Smiles To-night Love" (Columbia 15069-D, 1926)
Frank Jenkins & his Pilot Mountaineers [Oscar Jenkins, Frank Jenkins, Ernest V. Stoneman], "I Will Be All Smiles Tonight" (Conqueror, unissued, 1929)
Jenkins & Whitworth, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (OKeh 45331, 1929)
Bradley Kincaid, "I Will Be All Smiles Tonight" (Supertone 9566, 1929)
Lester McFarland & Robert Gardner ("Mac & Bob"), "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (Brunswick 164, 1927)
Linda Parker & the Cumberland Ridge Runners, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (Conqueror 8164, 1933)
Reed Children, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (Columbia 15525-D, 1930; rec. 1928)
Kitty Wells, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (RCA Victor 21-0333, 1950)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Harding B 11(1698), "I'll be all Smiles to-night," H. Disley (London), 1860-1883
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "This Night We Part Forever"
NOTES [53 words]: The 1879 sheet music of this is dedicated to "Miss Carrie Dupignac, Brooklyn, N.Y." It is pitched in the key of D, which makes the highest note of the song an F#. I can't help but think that, if the jilted girl wanted to get back at the man, she had only to sing the song in the key written; those F#s will hurt.... - RBW
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File: R812

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