White Coats

"A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)" is a 1957 country and western song with words and music both written by Marty Robbins. It was recorded at the Bradley Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 25, 1957, and released on the Columbia Records label on March 4. The arranger and recording session conductor was Ray Conniff, an in-house conductor/arranger at Columbia. Robbins had demanded to have Conniff oversee the recording after his earlier hit, "Singing the Blues", had been quickly eclipsed on the charts by Guy Mitchell's cover version, which was scored and conducted by Conniff in October 1956. The song reached number one on the US country chart, becoming Marty Robbins' third number-one record. It reached number two on the Billboard pop chart, and No. 1 in the Australian music charts. In Canada it was ranked number seven for two weeks on the first two CHUM Charts. Billboard ranked it as the number 17 song for 1957.