Honeysuckle Rose (song)
"Honeysuckle Rose" is a 1929 song composed by Thomas "Fats" Waller with lyrics by Andy Razaf. It was introduced in the 1929 Off-Broadway revue "Load of Coal" at Connie's Inn as a soft-shoe dance number. Waller's 1934 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
During a visit to the West Side of Asbury Park, New Jersey in 1928, Waller wrote the song with Razaf at 119 Atkins Avenue in a home that still stands today.
Renditions
- Fletcher Henderson
- Fats Waller, and
- Red Norvo
- Mildred Bailey, Mildred Bailey and Her Alley Cats
- Count Basie
- Ella Fitzgerald on Ella and Basie!
- Coleman Hawkins, with Benny Carter, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and others
- Fats Waller, Bunny Berigan, Dick McDonough and George "Georgia" Wettling, on A Jam Session at Victor
- Earl Hines
- Louis Armstrong, Satch Plays Fats
- Fats Waller, with Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden
- Benny Goodman – The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Featuring solos by Benny Goodman, Harry James, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Count Basie, Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney.
- Louis Jordan
- The King Cole Trio, March 14, 1941, April 11, 1946, July 2, 1947
- Harry Parry, Dave Wilkins, Woolf Phillips, Bobby Midgley, Art Thompson, Aubrey Franks, Joe Deniz and Charlie Short, as part of the First English Public Jam Session, November 16, 1941
- Lena Horne – In musical film Thousands Cheer
- Teddy Wilson
- Sarah Vaughan - At Mister Kelly's
- Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley
- Jane Monheit - ''Taking a Chance on Love (album)''