There's a Small Hotel

"There's a Small Hotel"
Song from On Your Toes
Published	1937
Writer(s)	Lorenz Hart
Composer(s)	Richard Rodgers

"There's a Small Hotel" is a 1936 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Originally written for but dropped from the musical Billy Rose's Jumbo (1935), it was then used in On Your Toes (1936), where it was introduced by Ray Bolger and Doris Carson and also interpolated in the film version of Pal Joey (1957) with a fine Frank Sinatra-Nelson Riddle collaboration.

According to the biography of Lorenz Hart by Frederick Nolan (Lorenz Hart - A Poet on Broadway, 1994; Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-510289-4),^[1] the song was inspired by a visit that Richard Rodgers made to the Stockton Inn,^[2] in Stockton, NJ. Hart reputedly found the melody insistently cloying and often ad-libbed raunchy parody verses, much to Rodgers' chagrin.

Another claimant to be the inspiration for the song is the Montecito Inn, in Santa Barbara County, California.^[3]^[4] Renovations to the hotel in the 1950s replaced the wishing well, mentioned in the song,^[5] by a floral fountain.^[6]

Notable recordings

Dorothy Ashby – Hip Harp (1958)
Chet Baker – My Favourite Songs, Vol. 2: Straight from the Heart (1988)
Josephine Baker – a version of the song with French words as "C'est un Nid Charmant (There's a Small Hotel)" (1937)^[7]
June Christy – Friendly Session, Vol. 3 (2000)
Petula Clark – Petula Clark in Hollywood (1959)
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956)
Benny Goodman Quartet – 1954
The Hi-Lo's – This Time It's Love (1962)
Hal Kemp – the biggest chart hit in 1936, the song's year of introduction
Della Reese – Della, Della, Cha–Cha–Cha (1960)
Frank Sinatra – Rodgers & Hart's Pal Joey – from the soundtrack of the Columbia Picture (Capitol, 1957)
Bobby Van & Kay Coulter – On Your Toes – a Decca Original Cast Production (1954 revival)
Billy Paul – Going East (1971)
Jane Monheit – Home (2010)

References

↑ Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
↑ "Stockton Inn". Stocktoninn.com. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
↑ Trzebinski, Errol (17 March 1995). The Lives of Beryl Markham. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 343–. ISBN 978-0-393-31252-2. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
↑ California business. California Business News, inc. 1983. p. 81. Retrieved 10 October 2011. For rejuvenation, pick the Montecito Inn, a 60-room hostelry that inspired Rodgers and Hart to write "There's a Small Hotel." Built by Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle...
↑ Wallace, David; Miller, Ann (23 September 2003). Hollywoodland. Macmillan. pp. 221–. ISBN 978-0-312-31614-3. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
↑ Hollywood & the Best of Los Angeles ... - Google Books. Books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
↑ Le Front populaire – Paris 1934–1939, Fremeaux.com. Retrieved 26 February 2012.

Rodgers and Hart

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