A White Sport Coat

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"A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)"

Single by Marty Robbins

from the album Marty's Greatest Hits

B-side

"Grown-Up Tears"

Released

March 1957

Recorded

January 25, 1957

Studio

Bradley Studios, Nashville, Tennessee^[1]

Genre

Country

Length

2:31

Columbia 40864

Marty Robbins

Marty Robbins singles chronology

"Knee Deep in the Blues"
(1957)

"A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)"
(1957)

"Please Don't Blame Me"
(1957)

"A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)" is a 1957 country and western song with words and music both written by Marty Robbins. It was recorded at the Bradley Studios in Nashville, Tennessee on January 25, 1957, and released on the Columbia Records label on March 4.^[2] The arranger and recording session conductor was Ray Conniff, an in-house conductor/arranger at Columbia. Robbins had demanded to have Conniff oversee the recording after his earlier hit, "Singing the Blues", had been quickly eclipsed on the charts by Guy Mitchell's cover version, which was scored and conducted by Conniff in October 1956.

The song reached no. 1 on the US country chart, becoming Marty Robbins' third No. 1 record.^[3] It reached no. 2 on the Billboard pop chart,^[4] and no. 1 in the Australian music charts. In Canada it was ranked No. 7 for 2 weeks on the first 2 CHUM Charts.^[5] Billboard ranked it as the No. 17 song for 1957.^[6]

Background

Robbins recalled writing "A White Sport Coat" in approximately twenty minutes, while being transported in a standard automobile.^[7] He is said to have had the inspiration for the song while driving from a motel to a venue in Ohio, where he was due to perform that evening. During the course of the journey, he passed a local high school, where its students were dressed ready for their prom.^{[citation needed]}

In the song, the narrator was hoping to go to the prom with a certain girl, wearing a white sport coat and a pink carnation. However, the girl decided to go to the prom with another guy, putting the narrator in a blue mood.

Cover versions

A version by Johnny Desmond received some play also, peaking at No. 62 on the U.S. pop charts.
In UK the song was a notable hit for the English rock and roll singer Terry Dene, which reached No. 18 in the UK Charts. A recording by The King Brothers peaked at No. 6. Both of these versions were hits in early summer 1957.

In popular culture

The song is mentioned in Don McLean's song "American Pie" (1971), with just the lyric about the "Pink Carnation".
Jimmy Buffett's 1973 album A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean spoofs the title of the song.
The song is featured in the opening credits of the 1997 film Going All the Way.
The song can be heard during the bowling-alley scene in Martin Scorsese's 2019 film The Irishman.
Paul McCartney famously dressed in a white sport coat in homage to the song on July 6, 1957, the day of the Woolton Village Fete when he was introduced to John Lennon.

References

^ Snoddy, Glen (1972). "Nashville, The Recording Center" (PDF). Country Music Who's Who. Record World. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
^ Thoenicke, Manfred. The Ray Conniff Recordings: The Columbia Years, Part 1: The Backings and New York* Recordings. p. 18.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 293.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 532.
^ "CHUM Hit Parade - May 27, 1957".
^ Billboard year-end top 50 singles of 1957
^ Marty Robbins interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969)

External links

AllMusic

v t e Marty Robbins
Albums	The Song of Robbins (1957) Song of the Islands (1958) Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959) More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1960) Return of the Gunfighter (1963) R.F.D. (1964) The Drifter (1966) Tonight Carmen (1967) I Walk Alone (1968) It's a Sin (1969) My Woman, My Woman, My Wife (1970) Today (1972) This Much a Man (1972) El Paso City (1976) Adios Amigo (1977) The Performer (1979)
Notable singles	"Stairway of Love" "I'll Go On Alone" "I Couldn't Keep from Crying" "That's All Right" "Maybellene" "Singing the Blues" "Knee Deep in the Blues" "A White Sport Coat" "Ain't I Right" "The Story of My Life" "Just Married" "She Was Only Seventeen"* "The Hanging Tree" "El Paso" "Big Iron" "Don't Worry" "Devil Woman" "Ruby Ann" "Begging to You" "Ribbon of Darkness" "Tonight Carmen" "I Walk Alone" "It's a Sin" "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)" "El Paso City" "Among My Souvenirs" "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" "Return to Me" "Some Memories Just Won't Die" "Tie Your Dream to Mine"
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