Mountain Greenery is a popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It was written for the Broadway revue The Garrick Gaieties and published in 1926. Sterling Holloway is credited with the first stage performance, with Bobbie Perkins also listed as the original performance. Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra recorded an instrumental version on July 9, 1926.
The song is bright and witty, and Hart's enjambement and internal rhymes give the lyric its quick, clever feel. Mel Tormé had a top-five hit in the United Kingdom with his cover in 1956. Other versions that matter include those by Ella Fitzgerald (1956), Sammy Davis Jr. (1963), The Supremes (1967) and Tony Bennett (1977).
