“I'll Be All Smiles Tonight”

Description

The singer is carefully dressing and bedecking herself with flowers for a wedding -- the wedding of her false true love to another girl. She intends to put on a fine face: "Though my heart will break tomorrow, I'll be all smiles tonight."

Cross references

• cf. "This Night We Part Forever"

Recordings

• Carter Family, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (Bluebird B-5529, 1934; Montgomery Ward M-4497, c. 1934)
• Luther B. Clarke [Blue Ridge Highballers], "I'll Be All Smiles To-night Love" (Columbia 15069-D, 1926)
• Frank Jenkins & his Pilot Mountaineers [Oscar Jenkins, Frank Jenkins, Ernest V. Stoneman], "I Will Be All Smiles Tonight" (Conqueror, unissued, 1929)
• Jenkins & Whitworth, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (OKeh 45331, 1929)
• Bradley Kincaid, "I Will Be All Smiles Tonight" (Supertone 9566, 1929)
• Lester McFarland & Robert Gardner ("Mac & Bob"), "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (Brunswick 164, 1927)
• Linda Parker & the Cumberland Ridge Runners, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (Conqueror 8164, 1933)
• Reed Children, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (Columbia 15525-D, 1930; rec. 1928)
• Kitty Wells, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (RCA Victor 21-0333, 1950)

References

1. Randolph 812, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (2 texts)
2. Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 32-34, 40-41, 174-175, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (2 texts plus a fragment, 3 tunes)
3. cf. Gardner/Chickering, p. 479, "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" (source notes only)
4. Roud #3715
5. BI, R812