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It's Oh So Quiet
"It's Oh So Quiet" is a song by American singer Betty Hutton, released in 1951 as the B-side to the single "Murder, He Says". It is a cover of the German song "Und jetzt ist es still", performed by Horst Winter in 1948, with music written by Austrian composer Hans Lang and German lyrics by Erich Meder. The English lyrics were written by Bert Reisfeld. A French title, "Tout est tranquille", was performed in 1949 by Ginette Garcin and the Jacques Hélian Orchestra.
Icelandic musician Björk covered the song as the third single from her second album Post (1995): it remains her biggest hit, reaching number four in the United Kingdom and spending 15 weeks on the UK Singles Chart.
In 2002, Brittany Murphy performed this song, joined by the Pussycat Dolls. In 2005, Lucy Woodward covered the song for the soundtrack for the film Ice Princess. This version was also used in the second trailer for the 2020 film Birds of Prey. A version of "It's Oh So Quiet" was used in a Maybelline advertisement, and a version by Amanda Fondell was used in an advertisement for Candy Crush Saga. Hutton's version was used in a commercial for the Acura TLX in 2020 and for Facebook in 2021. A version was used in a 2023 Diet Coke commercial. The trailer for Boy Kills World includes the song. In 2025, A version of the song was featured in Grey Goose’s “The Lastish Call” commercial starring Zoe Saldaña.
The original was sung by American Betty Hutton, released in 1951 as the B-side to the single "Murder, He Says". It is a cover of the German song "Und jetzt ist es still", performed by Horst Winter in 1948, with music written by Austrian composer Hans Lang and German lyrics by Erich Meder. The English lyrics were written by Bert Reisfeld. A French version, "Tout est tranquille", was performed in 1949 by Ginette Garcin and the Jacques Hélian Orchestra.
The song was covered by Icelandic musician Björk in 1995. It was released in November that year, by One Little Indian, as the third single from her second album, Post (1995) and remains her biggest hit, reaching number four in the UK and spending 15 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. Fueled by the Spike Jonze-directed music video, the single also shot Björk into the spotlight in Australia, where it reached number six. In the United Kingdom, the single has been certified as gold, having shipped 400,000 copies.
James Masterton for Dotmusic said Björk's version of "It's Oh So Quiet" "stands out as one of the most bizarre singles she has ever recorded." He described it "as Icelandic pixie meets the sound of Frank Sinatra to almost perfect effect." Alan Jones from Music Week wrote, "Alternating soft and gentle passages with noisy outbursts on which Bjork squawks and is reinforced by an old-fashioned big band section, this is very much a novelty, but one that works and well." Pan-European magazine Music & Media stated, "The big-band-backed 'It's Oh So Quiet' is wonderful (didn't we hear this in Altman's Pret-A-Porter? It isn't included on the soundtrack album)."
Simon Williams from NME said in his review of Post, "It happens about a quarter of the way into 'It's Oh So Quiet'. All is normal in Björkland in terms of mischievous whisperings and wandering noises for the first, ooooh, minute... and then, with nary a mumbled warning, out pours a 20-piece orchestral shriek, the huge scarlet drapes part insolently, and there She is centrestage, gallivanting down the crystallised staircase, shimmying with the choreographed puffins, bellowing through a jazz-tastic wartime standard originally recorded by a Hollywood bombshell of the blonde variety, Betty Hutton, and She is hollering You fall in love, ZING BOOM! The sky up above, ZING BOOM! Is caving in, WOW BAM!."
In her review of the single, Gill Whyte from Smash Hits gave it a top score of five out of five, writing, "Uh-oh! Bjönkers is back! With a loonier-than-the-looniest-thing-ever-loonied choon! So, put on your loon shoes and tip-tappety-tap along, 'cos this is a redoing of an old Hollywood musical big band number, with lots of big, bursty, brassy noises, interludes of quiet Ssh, ssh gurglings, and, just when you think it's all over, the Pixie From Planet Shouty screams her wee head off. Literally! Oh-so brilliant." Another Smash Hits editor, Gavin Reeve, named it one of two "top destinations" of the album, with "Army of Me".
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It's Oh So Quiet
"It's Oh So Quiet" is a song by American singer Betty Hutton, released in 1951 as the B-side to the single "Murder, He Says". It is a cover of the German song "Und jetzt ist es still", performed by Horst Winter in 1948, with music written by Austrian composer Hans Lang and German lyrics by Erich Meder. The English lyrics were written by Bert Reisfeld. A French title, "Tout est tranquille", was performed in 1949 by Ginette Garcin and the Jacques Hélian Orchestra.
Icelandic musician Björk covered the song as the third single from her second album Post (1995): it remains her biggest hit, reaching number four in the United Kingdom and spending 15 weeks on the UK Singles Chart.
In 2002, Brittany Murphy performed this song, joined by the Pussycat Dolls. In 2005, Lucy Woodward covered the song for the soundtrack for the film Ice Princess. This version was also used in the second trailer for the 2020 film Birds of Prey. A version of "It's Oh So Quiet" was used in a Maybelline advertisement, and a version by Amanda Fondell was used in an advertisement for Candy Crush Saga. Hutton's version was used in a commercial for the Acura TLX in 2020 and for Facebook in 2021. A version was used in a 2023 Diet Coke commercial. The trailer for Boy Kills World includes the song. In 2025, A version of the song was featured in Grey Goose’s “The Lastish Call” commercial starring Zoe Saldaña.
The original was sung by American Betty Hutton, released in 1951 as the B-side to the single "Murder, He Says". It is a cover of the German song "Und jetzt ist es still", performed by Horst Winter in 1948, with music written by Austrian composer Hans Lang and German lyrics by Erich Meder. The English lyrics were written by Bert Reisfeld. A French version, "Tout est tranquille", was performed in 1949 by Ginette Garcin and the Jacques Hélian Orchestra.
The song was covered by Icelandic musician Björk in 1995. It was released in November that year, by One Little Indian, as the third single from her second album, Post (1995) and remains her biggest hit, reaching number four in the UK and spending 15 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. Fueled by the Spike Jonze-directed music video, the single also shot Björk into the spotlight in Australia, where it reached number six. In the United Kingdom, the single has been certified as gold, having shipped 400,000 copies.
James Masterton for Dotmusic said Björk's version of "It's Oh So Quiet" "stands out as one of the most bizarre singles she has ever recorded." He described it "as Icelandic pixie meets the sound of Frank Sinatra to almost perfect effect." Alan Jones from Music Week wrote, "Alternating soft and gentle passages with noisy outbursts on which Bjork squawks and is reinforced by an old-fashioned big band section, this is very much a novelty, but one that works and well." Pan-European magazine Music & Media stated, "The big-band-backed 'It's Oh So Quiet' is wonderful (didn't we hear this in Altman's Pret-A-Porter? It isn't included on the soundtrack album)."
Simon Williams from NME said in his review of Post, "It happens about a quarter of the way into 'It's Oh So Quiet'. All is normal in Björkland in terms of mischievous whisperings and wandering noises for the first, ooooh, minute... and then, with nary a mumbled warning, out pours a 20-piece orchestral shriek, the huge scarlet drapes part insolently, and there She is centrestage, gallivanting down the crystallised staircase, shimmying with the choreographed puffins, bellowing through a jazz-tastic wartime standard originally recorded by a Hollywood bombshell of the blonde variety, Betty Hutton, and She is hollering You fall in love, ZING BOOM! The sky up above, ZING BOOM! Is caving in, WOW BAM!."
In her review of the single, Gill Whyte from Smash Hits gave it a top score of five out of five, writing, "Uh-oh! Bjönkers is back! With a loonier-than-the-looniest-thing-ever-loonied choon! So, put on your loon shoes and tip-tappety-tap along, 'cos this is a redoing of an old Hollywood musical big band number, with lots of big, bursty, brassy noises, interludes of quiet Ssh, ssh gurglings, and, just when you think it's all over, the Pixie From Planet Shouty screams her wee head off. Literally! Oh-so brilliant." Another Smash Hits editor, Gavin Reeve, named it one of two "top destinations" of the album, with "Army of Me".