Misto Cristofo Columbo
1951


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Highlights
  • Written for the 1951 Paramount Pictures film Here Comes The Grrom directed by Frank Capra, starring Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Franchot Tone and Alexis Smith.
  • Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has five days to win back his former fiancĂ©e, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
  • Here Comes The Groom was released September 20, 1951.
  • Louis Armstrong, Dorothy Lamour, Cass Daley and Phil Harris all have cameo roles in this film.
  • "Misto Cristofo Columbo" was sung by Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Cass Daley, Louis Armstrong, Phil Harris, Frank Fontaine and 4 Hits And A Miss.
  • Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series that ran for more than twenty years, broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of Here Comes The Groom on September 12, 1952. Jane Wyman reprised her onscreen role.
  • Here Comes The Groom was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story in 1952.
  • Bing Crosby was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor-Comedy/Musical in 1952 for Here Comes The Groom.
  • Here Comes The Groom was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical in 1952.
  • MISTO CRISTOFO COLUMBO is performed in the film by Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Louis Armstrong, Cass Daley, Phil Harris, and Frank Fontaine.

WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON
COPYRIGHT 1951


Recording History
Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman, Here Comes The Groom (soundtrack), 1951
Lyrics
Misto Cristo Cristofo Columbo
went for a boat ride one fine day.
On his day off travelled such a way off
He found the U.S. A. Ohhh!

Misto Cristo Cristofo Columbo
Thought the world was round ohh!
Presto, west-o sailed the man Columbo.
He found the U.S.A.

Took him ages, cost a lot o’wages,
Then from the sea there rose a hill.
Though we fly now, landing from the sky now,
We get the same old thrill. Ohh!

Misto Cristo Cristofo Columbo
Thought the world was round ohh!
Presto, west-o sailed the man Columbo.
He found the U.S.A.

Isabella really liked this fella,
Pawned her best fur coat
To buy the boy a boat!
Ohh!

Misto Cristo Cristofo Columbo
Thought the world was round ohh!
Presto, west-o sailed the man Columbo.
He found the U.S.A.

Sailed the Niña, Pinta and Marìa,
Figured to stop and load some freight;
But where the ground was
All he found was real nifty real estate. Ohhh!

Misto Cristo Cristofo Columbo
Thought the world was round ohh!
Presto, west-o sailed the man Columbo.
He found the U.S.A.

Roughed it, bluffed it, first he thought he’d muffed it
‘Cause all he found was ground unplowed
So he hoed some, later on there growed
Some buildings tall and proud ohh!

Misto Cristo Cristofo Columbo
Thought the world was round ohh!
Presto, west-o sailed the man Columbo.
He found the U.S.A.

When he docked here
Almost no one flocked here.
Now it’s more alive.
Just try a Sunday drive! Ohh!

Misto Cristo Cristofo Columbo
Really pulled his oar. Glad he got here,
Now we have a spot here known as Freedom Shore.
Where the helpless homeless open up freedom’s door!

MISTO CRISTOFO COLUMBO As sung by Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Cass Daley, Louis Armstrong, Phil Harris, Frank Fontaine and 4 Hits And A Miss in The Paramount Pictures film Here Comes The Groom, Burke-Van Heusen & Associates Music Corp., 1951. Music and Words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Special Picture Release)