Rockin' Chair (song)

Rockin' Chair (song)

"Rockin' Chair" is popular song with music by Hoagy Carmichael. Musically, it is unconventional as after the B section when most popular songs return to A, this song has an A-B-C-A1 structure. Mildred Bailey made it famous by using it as her theme song. Frank Sinatra recorded a definitive versioncite book
first= Alec
last= Wilder
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year= 1990
title= American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950
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publisher= Oxford University Press
location= New York & Oxford
pages = pp. 374-375
id= ISBN 0-19-501445-6 ]

It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong at Okeh studios in the 1930s after the stock market crashed, giving a badly needed boost to Carmichael's finances. The song utilises "call and response" to create a dialog between an aged father and his son.He performed Rockin' Chair numerous times in his career with his trombonist Jack Teagarden.fact|date=May 2008

A different song using the same name was a R&B number-one hit in 1975 for rhythm and blues singer, Gwen McCrae.fact|date=May 2008

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