There's a bluebird on your windowsill

Clarke, Elizabeth [composer]

There's a bluebird on your windowsill

dc.creator	Clarke, Elizabeth [composer]
dc.date.accessioned	2018-12-04T20:28:34Z
dc.date.available	2018-12-04T20:28:34Z
dc.date.issued	1948	en_US
dc.date.updated	2017-11-15T19:53:12Z
dc.description	Gift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.	en_US
dc.description	Piano vocal [instrumentation]	en_US
dc.description	With ev'ry tear you've washed away [first line]	en_US
dc.description	There's a bluebird on your window still [first line of chorus]	en_US
dc.description	C [key]	en_US
dc.description	Moderato [tempo]	en_US
dc.description	Don Murphy (photograph) [illustration]	en_US
dc.description	Don Murphy [performer]	en_US
dc.description	Publisher's advertisement on back cover [note]	en_US
dc.description	"Bluebird on Your Windowsill." Pop song by the Vancouver nurse (Carmen) Elizabeth Clarke (b Winnipeg 1911, d Vancouver 1960). The words (1947) were inspired by a small bird which perched on a windowsill of Vancouver's Hospital for Sick and Crippled Children. The melody was added later. The Rhythm Pals, who introduced the song on radio station CKNW, New Westminster, made an unsubstantiated claim that they contributed something to the final version. The song was published in 1948 by Empire Music and recorded first by Don Murphy for Aragon. Many other country artists recorded the song, and versions in 1949 by Doris Day and Tex Williams were hits in the US pop and country markets respectively. Clarke turned over all royalties to children's hospitals in Canada. The song was chosen as the theme for the 1949 US March of Dimes, and was later used in the 1986 Canadian feature film My American Cousin. In 2010 "Bluebird on Your Windowsill" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. --CMC.	en_US
dc.format	2 pages of music ; 23 x 31 cm.	en_US
dc.identifier	JAC010000	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3736666	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35647
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	New Westminster, Canada : Empire Music Publishers, 1948.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	John Arpin Sheet Music Collection	en_US
dc.rights.uri	http://bit.ly/SheetMusicFAQ
dc.title	There's a bluebird on your windowsill	en_US
dc.type	Sheet Music	en_US