Editing Lavender's Blue (section)

==Revival==
===1949===
A version of the song, titled "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)", was featured in the 1948 [[Walt Disney]] film ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]'', where it was sung by [[Burl Ives]]. This version was nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] in [[22nd Academy Awards|1949]]. This version of the song was credited to [[Eliot Daniel]] (music) and [[Larry Morey]] (lyrics). "Lavender Blue" was one of 400 nominees for the [[American Film Institute]]'s "[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs|100 Years...100 Songs]]" list of the 100 greatest film songs, which was presented on a television program of that name which aired on June 22, 2004, but it didn't make the final list.<ref name=AFI_400/><ref name=AFI_100/> The appearance of "Lavender Blue" in the Disney film sparked a revival of interest in the song.

Ives' version of "Lavender Blue" was recorded in December 1948 and released as a single in January 1949. As was common for pop songs in those days,<ref name=DigitalDreamDoor/> several other singers released versions at near the same time. [[Sammy Kaye]] also released a version in 1949, which charted at No. 5,<ref name=SDb_Kaye/> as did [[Dinah Shore]] (her version went to No. 1 on the Australian chart<ref name=Tsort/> and was the title track of her album ''Lavender Blue''). [[Vera Lynn]]'s version of "Lavender Blue" was issued on the [[A-side and B-side|B side]] of her single "[[Again (1949 song)|Again]]",<ref name=VeraLynn/> which reached the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine [[Billboard Hot 100|Best Seller chart]] on January 21, 1949.

===Later 20th century===
The Canadian author [[Kathleen Lines]] published a selection of classical nursery rhymes in 1954 under this title.<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Kathleen Lines]]|title=Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes|year=1954|publisher=Franklin Watts|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/lavendersblue0000unse/mode/1up|via=[[Internet Archive]]|url-access=registration}}</ref>

In 1959, [[Sammy Turner]] released a [[rhythm and blues]] version produced by [[Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller]] which reached #3 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]].<ref name=SDb_1/><ref name=MusicVF/>

[[Benjamin Britten]] wrote ''Lavender's Blue'' into his 1954 opera ''[[The Turn of the Screw (opera)|The Turn of The Screw]]'', where it is sung by the two children, Miles and Flora.<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Rupprecht|title=Britten's Musical Language|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9SNAUe8fMAoC&dq=%22lavender+blue%22&pg=PA157|date=11 February 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-44128-5|pages=157–}}.</ref>

In 1985, the British rock band [[Marillion]] included a song called "[[Lavender (Marillion song)|Lavender]]" on their album ''[[Misplaced Childhood]]''. The song had lyrics derived from "Lavender's Blue" and became a number 5 hit on the [[UK singles chart]].<ref>"Lavender, Marillion [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/18279726/Marillion/Lavender Lyrics.com]</ref><ref>[https://www.simplyeighties.com/marillion-lavender.php Simply Eighties]</ref>