Songfacts®:

• John Blackburn wrote the lyrics to this song, with music by Karl Suessdorf. Blackburn was raised in Ohio, but was inspired to write the song after a trip to Vermont.
• This was a popular big band song of the '40s and '50s, especially in Vermont, as the lyrics describe the idyllic scenery of the state.
• In the 1980's, the Vermont legislature considered this as a replacement for Vermont's official state song: "Hail Vermont." On May 22, 2000, governor Howard Dean declared "These Green Mountains," written by Diane Martin, the new official state song. >>

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• Margaret Whiting was the first to record this, but many others have sung it over the years, including Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Sam Cooke, Linda Ronstadt and Billie Holiday.
• This song was featured in a scene from the Diane Keaton movie Baby Boom. The scene takes place at a town dance and is performed on screen by the plumber of Keaton's character JC Wyatt. >>

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• Willie Nelson covered this on his hit 1978 standards album, Stardust. He asked his neighbor Booker T. Jones, who lived in the same condo complex in Malibu, to do the arrangement and liked it so much that he enlisted him to produce the whole album.