Songs

Yet more clues of seeing how the button was incorporated into the culture. Check out these lyrics from “Push de Button” from the Broadway musical “Jamaica,” by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg. 1957. Sung by Lena Horne. Push de button, Up de elevator, Push de button, Out de orange juice.

Via BBC News: Israelis have voted overwhelmingly for a song about nuclear annihilation as their country’s entry in this year’s Eurovision Song contest. Push the Button is widely thought to be a response to Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the Islamic republic’s fiery president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The

As early as 1890, the button was becoming entrenched into the popular culture of public life. So popular that there was a song written about it. In 1891, W.S. Mullaly and Webster Fulton wrote “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest”, titled after the Kodak advertising slogan (mentioned