"Under the Anheuser Bush" is a beer garden song commissioned by the Anheuser-Busch brewing company in 1903.[1] With music by Harry Von Tilzer and words by Andrew B. Sterling, the title contains a pun on the surnames of the company's founders ("Busch" is the German word for "Bush").
Sheet music cover stylized with Anheuser-Busch logo (1903)
Published by the Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., it followed on the success of Von Tilzer's 1902 beer garden composition, "Down Where The Wurzburger Flows".[2]
The chorus lyrics below are as printed in the 1903 sheet music.[3] The line "come and have a stein or two" is backed by the first bar of the German folk standard "Oh du lieber Augustin".
Popular recordings were made by Billy Murray (1904), and as a duet by Collins and Harlan (1905).[2] In the MGM movie Meet Me in St. Louis, set in 1903, the orchestra at the Christmas dance plays an instrumental version.
The song was adapted for a British music hall version called "Down at the Old Bull and Bush", written for Florrie Forde and made popular by her.[4][a]
Where the Wurzburger Flows was a beer garden hit for Von Tilzer in 1902
The tune was adapted for the political parody song "Down At The Old Watergate" during the Watergate scandal.[6]
^Taylor, Timothy D. (2012). The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture. University of Chicago Press. p. 73. ISBN978-0-226-79114-2.
^ abJasen, David A. (2013). A Century of American Popular Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 262. ISBN978-1-135-35271-4.
^"Under the Anheuser Bush". Levy Sheet Music Collection. JScholarship. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
^Martland, Peter (2012). Recording History: The British Record Industry, 1888–1931. Scarecrow Press. p. 201. ISBN978-0-8108-8253-9.
^"Artist Biography: Florrie Forde". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
^"Down at the Old Watergate - Congressman William Hungate - YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
External linksedit
"Under the Anheuser Bush", Billy Murray (1904), Monarch (Victor) Record label, at Library of Congress National Jukebox
"Under the Anheuser Bush", Collins and Harlan (1905), Victor Record label, at Library of Congress National Jukebox
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