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[[image:Every little moment.jpg|thumb|right|Sheet music cover, 1910]]

"'''Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own)'''" is a [[popular music|popular]] [[song]]. Its music was written by [[Karl Hoschna]] and its lyrics by [[Otto Harbach]] for their musical,  ''Madame Sherry'', which opened on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] on August 30, 1910. The song was sung in the musical by Frances Demarest and John Reinhard.<ref>{{cite web|title=Internet Broadway Database|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/madame-sherry-7169/#songs|website=ibdb.com|accessdate=March 11, 2018}}</ref>

Popular recordings in 1910 were by [[Harry Macdonough]] and [[Lucy Isabelle Marsh]], and by [[Henry Burr]] and [[Elise Stevenson]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/496 496]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/496}}</ref> [[Marie Lloyd]] sang a parody of it in British [[music hall]]s just before the [[World War I]].

Since its publication, the song has become a [[pop standards|standard]], recorded by many artists, including [[Doris Day]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/Doris-Day-With-Paul-Weston-And-His-Orchestra-And-The-Norman-Luboff-Choir-And-Jack-Smith-On-Moonlight/master/791885|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=March 11, 2018}}</ref> [[Peggy Lee]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/Peggy-Lee-Peggy/master/747696|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=March 11, 2018}}</ref> and by [[The Platters]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Platters-Encore-Of-Broadway-Golden-Hits/master/671504|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=March 11, 2018}}</ref>

An instrumental version was heard on the soundtrack of ''[[The Jolson Story]]''.

[[Judy Garland]] and [[Connie Gilchrist]] (dubbed by Mary Kent) sang it in the 1943 film ''[[Presenting Lily Mars]]'', and [[Peggy Cummins]] sang and hummed it in the 1947 film, ''[[The Late George Apley (film)|The Late George Apley]]'', based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning [[John P. Marquand]] [[The Late George Apley|novel]] of 1912 [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]].

The song was sung in 1957 by [[Polly Bergen]] on her eponymous [[NBC]] [[variety show]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ctva.biz/US/MusicVariety/PollyBergenShow.htm|title=The Polly Bergen Show|publisher=Classic Television Archives|accessdate=January 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008123308/http://ctva.biz/US/MusicVariety/PollyBergenShow.htm|archive-date=October 8, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and by [[Ann Morgan Guilbert]] on an episode of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' called "The Gunslinger".

In [[Rick Besoyan]]'s [[satire|satirical]] 1959 [[musical comedy|musical]] ''[[Little Mary Sunshine]]'', the song is parodied in the song "Every Little Nothing", which employs the same first five notes and mentions the song by name.

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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|qid=Q3240954|title=Presenting Lily Mars}}
* {{IMDb title|qid=Q530706|title=The Dick Van Dyke Show}}
* {{IMDb title|qid=Q2140783|title=The Late George Apley}}

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[[Category:Songs with music by Karl Hoschna]]
[[Category:Songs with lyrics by Otto Harbach]]
[[Category:1910 songs]]