The version was recorded on November 30, 1947, and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 38284. The record first reached the Billboard charts on September 17, 1948, and lasted 24 weeks on the chart. It was the biggest hit of her career, selling a minimum of one million units.^[7][11]

Dinah Shore

Livingston and Evans appeared in (1950) performing the song in a New Year's Eve party scene.

Sunset Boulevard

The haberdashery department is said to perform the song for Mr. Grace's birthday on the episode "Happy Returns" of

Are You Being Served?

The melody to "Buttons and Bows" was used as a character theme in the 1960s TV F Troop. It was frequently heard over the entrance of "Wrangler Jane", played by Melody Patterson.

sitcom

The song makes an appearance in "Look Before You Leap," an episode from the third season of . He considers the song simplistic, but during a PBS pledge telethon, Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) tries to perform it but forgets nearly all of the lyrics, much to the amusement of his father Martin Crane and his physical therapist, Daphne Moon.

Frasier

sang "Buttons and Bows" on The Jack Benny Program in the episode "Ghost Town: Western Sketch" S12/Ep17 (1962) where she played a saloon singer.

Gisele MacKenzie

This song makes an appearance in the episode "Tricks and Treats", in a scene set in 1949 where a character hits a small girl with a car while driving intoxicated.

American Horror Story: Asylum

The song is sung by the characters in (1988).

Distant Voices, Still Lives

In the episode of that aired on December 7, 1948, guest Bing Crosby contends that, if he had known Beethoven, the composer would have written songs for him. There follows a sketch in which Hope plays Beethoven, and Crosby plays "Herr Bingle von Crosbein", both with comical German accents. The pair perform a parody song set to the tune of "Buttons and Bows", called "Heinie's and Moe's", about a delicatessen.

Hope's radio show

List of number-one singles of 1948 (U.S.)

List of number-one singles of 1949 (U.S.)