In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree is a popular song dating from 1905. It was written by Harry Williams and Egbert Van Alstyne. Popular recordings in 1905 were by Henry Burr; Albert Campbell; Haydn Qu
1905 sheet music cover
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Screen Songs are a series of animated cartoons produced at the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1938. Paramount brought back the sing-along cartoons in 1945, no
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
…the verses (seldom heard nowadays) provide further explanation, it is clear that the writer is singing about a lost love: the song is used in the 1930 screen song of the same name. In the movie The Wizard of Oz, in the scene involving the talking apple trees who become angry with Dorothy for picking apples off…
The series' opening logo from the revival years