"Pale Blue Eyes" may be the most deliciously lazy, sweet song since Hoagy Carmichael's "Ole Buttermilk Sky."
Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Jack Brooks (lyrics) were nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Ole Buttermilk Sky".
On Hoagy Carmichael's "Ole Buttermilk Sky," she played with bass alone, scatting through a middle section, hunching over and concentrating as she rearranged harmony.
According to her owners, Buttermilk Sky is known for her energy; however, the kicking was a first-time occurrence, which was caught on video by chance.
"Ole Buttermilk Sky," choreographed and performed by Tony Waag, epitomized that homeyness - a demanding solo that captured the boyish charm of a performer who looks like an easy, insouciant Len Cariou.
Then, he became a vocalist in the big band of Kay Kyser, with whom he was featured on two notable hits, "Ole Buttermilk Sky" in 1946 and "The Old Lamplighter" the following year.
One of nine canvases dating from 1968 to 1982 in the first Brown exhibition in New York in 10 years, "Buttermilk Sky" (1974), above, is a masterpiece of grid-based patterning and all-American transcendentalist romance.
Then "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Ole Buttermilk Sky" are introduced to accompany events that purportedly took place a full year before the songs were recorded and possibly even written.
(His was the lead voice on hits like "The Old Lamplighter" and "Ole Buttermilk Sky.")
Hoagy Carmichael wrote the song "Oh, Buttermilk Sky".