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"In the Good Old Summer Time" is an American Tin Pan Alley song first published in 1902 with music by George Evans and lyrics by Ren Shields.〔Herder, Ronald (1997) ''500 best-loved song lyrics'' p. 163 ISBN 0-486-29725-X〕 ==Background== Shields and Evans were at first unsuccessfully trying to sell the song to one of New York's big sheet music publishers. The publishers thought the topic of the song doomed it to be forgotten at the end of the summer season. Blanche Ring, who had helped Evans arrange the number's piano score, was enthusiastic about it and at her urging it was added to the 1902 musical comedy show "The Defender" she was appearing in. The song was a hit from the opening night, with the audience often joining in singing the chorus.〔Ralph, Theodore (1986) ''The American Song Treasury: 100 Favorites'' p.276 ISBN 0-486-25222-1〕 "In the Good Old Summer Time" was one of the big hits of the era, selling popular sheet music and being recorded by various artists of the day, including John Philip Sousa's band in 1903. It has remained a standard often revived in the decades since. The song appeared in many films, including the Judy Garland film named after it; In the Good Old Summertime. The book ''Elmer Gantry'' opens with the title character drunkenly singing the song in the saloon. The song appeared in the episode titled ''Tipping the scales'' of the hit PBS show Arthur, and featured in the 1930 Laurel and Hardy short ''Below Zero'' in ironical terms, sung during a snowstorm. The chorus is used with a slight twist in Baylor University's song, "That Good Old Baylor Line." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「In the Good Old Summer Time」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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