Ricky Nelson’s “Barefoot Boy”

Today, just a little musical interlude:

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Put Your Shoes On, Lucy

Here’s a cute little song from 1947. It’s from the album “Hank Fort Sings Her Own Great Song”. Hank Fort was from Nashville and gained a fair bit of fame by writing radio jingles and then other fairly well-known songs. She was born Alma Louise Middleton Hankins Fort in 1914 and died in 1973.

Somehow I wonder if the song may have been a bit autobiographical.

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