"It's Oh So Quiet" is a song by American singer Betty Hutton, released in 1951 as the B-side to the single "Murder, He Says". It is a cover of the German song "Und jetzt ist es still", performed by Horst Winter in 1948, with music written by Austrian composer Hans Lang and German lyrics by Erich Meder. The English lyrics were written by Bert Reisfeld. A French title, "Tout est tranquille", was performed in 1949 by Ginette Garcin and the Jacques Hélian Orchestra.
The music video for Björk's "It's Oh So Quiet" is the work of American director Spike Jonze, and an homage to Hollywood musicals. Time Out wrote, "none of [it] would have worked without that final crane shot" (depicted above).
Betty Hutton
was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer, and singer. She rose to fame in the 1940s as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, appearing primarily in musicals, and became one of the studio's most valuable stars of that decade. She was noted for her energetic and sometimes manic performance style.
Hutton c. 1945
Betty Hutton performing for sailors at Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, 1945
With American sailors and marines in the Marshall Islands, December 1944
Trailer for Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
