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.
The song also rather illustrates the attitudes of the time. First, it sounds like going barefoot was pretty common, at least in the south. But mainly, going barefoot was OK, it just wasn’t sophisticated. Not a hint of the idea that it would supposedly violate a health code or was somehow unsanitary, or that you would get hurt. Those are just post hoc excuses because people forget that the big antipathy was against hippies in the 1960s.
[A “Thank you” to Chet for emailing me about the song.]
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Interesting! Ironically, sounds like what I heard in the winter while I was growing up, except my name isn’t lucy!
I really liked that song, I never heard it before now. It must have been in the country music archives all this time.
From the time this song was popular in the late 1940’s to today, somebody in the family says “Put your shoes on, Lucy, don’t you know you’re in the city” whenever anybody walks around the house barefoot.
In googling the song title this morning, I see Petula Clark recorded this song on the Columbia label in the UK in 1949.
Growing up getting ready to go out the door it was “Put your shoes on, Lucy!” and my name wasn’t Lucy–one parent or the other would start singing this old song. Miss my parents!