Would You Like to Take a Walk?

Written: 1930

Music by: Harry Warren

Words by: Mort Dixon
and Billy Rose

Written for: Sweet and Low
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Although the Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) song list does not include"Would You Like to Take a Walk?" it was indeed written for the show Sweet and Low that opened November 17, 1930 on Broadway. As IBDB's data is based on the opening night program, perhaps the song (and its lyricist Mort Dixon) were for some reason left out of that document.

Tony Thomas in his book Harry Warren and the Hollywood Musical explains that Warren, not having become fond of Hollywood during his first stint writing for the movies had returned to his preferred native habitat of New York where Billy Rose approached him and requested that he contribute a few songs for his new revue Sweet and Low. Thomas states that the "most durable" of these numbers was "Would You Like To Take a Walk?" written with Mort Dixon. Warren and Dixon also wrote "Cheerful Little Earful" for Sweet and Low. Thomas also notes that producer Rose insisted that he too be credited with the lyrics for the songs. Warren, according to Thomas, believed "that Rose should be credited with the ideas for the songs and with some of the titles" (Thomas, p. 18.").

Ed's. Note: One must read between Thomas' lines to understand that Warren did not believe Rose contributed to the lyrics themselves. A number of producers and song publishing executives in positions of power did this kind of thing which was known n the industry ascutting in.

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