Honeysuckle rose fats waller

1929 song composed by Fats Waller

"Honeysuckle Rose" is a 1929 song composed by Thomas "Fats" Waller with lyrics by Andy Razaf.^[1] It was introduced in the 1929 Off-Broadwayrevue "Load of Coal" at Connie's Inn as a soft-shoe dance number.^[2] Waller's 1934 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.^[3]

During a visit to the West Side of Asbury Park, New Jersey in 1928, Waller wrote the song with Razaf at 119 Atkins Avenue in a home that still stands today.^[4]

Renditions

• Fletcher Henderson (1932)^[5]
• Fats Waller (1934), (1937) and (1941)^[6]
• Red Norvo (1935, originally issued on COL 3059-D)
• Mildred Bailey (1935), Mildred Bailey and Her Alley Cats (Parlophone R 2201, England) ^[7]
• Count Basie (1937)
• Ella Fitzgerald (1963) on Ella and Basie!^[8]
• Coleman Hawkins, with Benny Carter, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and others (1937)
• Earl Hines (19