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{{Infobox song
| name = Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
| published = 1945
| genre = Pop
| composer = [[Guy Wood]]
| lyricist = [[Sammy Gallop]]
| artist = [[Dinah Shore]]
}}
'''Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy'''" is a [[popular music|popular]] song about [[Pennsylvania Dutch]] cooking, with music by [[Guy Wood]] and words by [[Sammy Gallop]]. It was published in [[1945 in music|1945]].

==Recording history==
The song became a major hit in 1946 both for [[Dinah Shore]]<ref>{{Gilliland |year=197X |show=16 |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633234/m1/ }}</ref> and the [[Stan Kenton]] orchestra featuring [[June Christy]] on vocals. It also went on to be recorded by [[Guy Lombardo]] and his Royal Canadians, and by [[Ella Fitzgerald]].

Dinah Shore's recording (released by [[Columbia Records]] as catalog number 36943), reached the  ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine Best Seller chart on April 4, 1946 and lasted 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 7.<ref name=Whitburn>{{cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel| author-link = Joel Whitburn| title = Top Pop Records 1940-1955| publisher = Record Research| location = Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin| year = 1973 }}</ref> It was narrowly preceded by Stan Kenton's recording with June Christy ([[Capitol Records]], catalog number 235), which first arrived in the Billboard chart on March 14 and remained for 4 weeks, peaking at number 8.<ref name=Whitburn/> In the Cash Box survey, where all versions were combined at one position, the song reached number 4 for the year.

==Background==
[[File:Small_slice_of_molasses_shoofly_pie_2022.png|thumb|Slice of shoofly pie]]
[[Shoo-fly pie]] is a [[molasses]] pie common to both [[Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine]] cooking<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71833329 |title=The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-19-530796-2 |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Andrew F. |location= |pages=536 |oclc=71833329}}</ref> and [[Cuisine of the Southern United States|southern (U.S.) cooking]]. [[Apple pan dowdy]] (or Apple pandowdy) is a baked apple pastry traditionally associated with Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, with a recipe dating to (according to Crea)<ref>Joe Crea, Cleveland-based food critic [http://www.cleveland.com/cleveland-cooks/index.ssf/2010/09/apple_pan_dowdy_is_a_crowd-pleasing_old_favorite.html "Apple Pan Dowdy is a crowd-pleasing old favorite"], ''Cleveland Plain Dealer'' September 15, 2010 (retrieved March 30 2014)</ref> colonial times.

== In popular culture ==
The song is frequently mentioned in [[John Updike]]'s 1988 novel ''[[Rabbit at Rest]]'' as a favorite childhood song of the protagonist, Pennsylvania native Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.

The 'Two Fat Ladies' refer to this song in their cookbook ''Obsessions'', as well as singing the song and cooking apple pan dowdy on an episode of their television show.

==References==
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[[Category:Songs with lyrics by Sammy Gallop]]
[[Category:1945 songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Guy Wood]]
[[Category:Guy Lombardo songs]]


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