Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)

Originally titled "Anywhere the Bluebird Goes", On February 18, 1942, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded the song with vocals by Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, and The Modernaires. The 78 single was released on RCA Bluebird Records on March 6, peaking at no. 2 on Billboard. This record, the B side to "The Lamplighter's Serenade", spent thirteen weeks on the Billboard charts and was ranked as the nation's twelfth best-selling recording of the year. Many other artists released records of the song that year, including Kay Kyser. With the Miller, Andrews, and Kyser records all being popular on the radio, "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" became one of the few songs in history to have three different versions on the radio hit parade at the same time. ==Other versions==

• Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album On the Happy Side (1962). • In 2012, Broadway icon Carol Channing released a duet of the song with country singer T. Graham Brown on her album True To The Red, White, and Blue. • Glen Gray • Kay Kyser • The King Sisters • Bob Crosby • Barry Wood • Dick Rogers • Frankie Masters • Jimmy Joy • Barry Manilow, 1994 ''Singin' with the Big Bands'' album ==Parodies==

• In 1943, Harold Adamson and Jimmy McHugh wrote "They Just Chopped Down the Old Apple Tree" for the film Around the World as a humorous parody of this song, which was recorded by The Dinning Sisters. • Frank Loesser's and Arthur Schwartz's "They're Either Too Young or Too Old" from Thank Your Lucky Stars, also references the song when a woman tells her lover that she "can't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me" because all of the other men her age are also fighting in the war. ==References==