“In the Good Old Summer Time” is an American Tin Pan Alley song first published in 1902 with music by George Evans and lyrics by Ren Shields. Shields and Evans were at first unsuccessfully trying to sell the song to one of New York’s big sheet music publishers. The publishers thought the topic of the song doomed it to be forgotten at the end of the summer season. Blanche Ring, who had helped Evans arrange the number’s piano score, was enthusiastic about it and at her urging it was added to the 1902 musical comedy show “The Defender” she was appearing in. The song was a hit from the opening night, with the audience often joining in singing the chorus. “In the Good Old Summer Time” was one of the big hits of the era, selling popular sheet music and being recorded by various artists of the day, including John Philip Sousa’s band in 1903. It has remained a standard often revived in the decades since.
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'In the Good Old Summer Time' is an American Tin Pan Alley song first published in 1902 with music by George Evans and lyrics by Ren Shields.
Though the Haydn Quartet’s version was definitely not the first version, it is one of the most popular.