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| (Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger) |
| (o): | Bob Hope & Shirley Ross (1937) | label: |
| | In film The Big Broadcast Of 1938, Bob Hope's silver screen debut. The song won an Oscar. When Hope & Ross became a couple and separated shortly thereafter this song became like their themesong. |
| (c): | Dorothy Lamour (1937) [in that same film], Benny Goodman (1937) , Shep Fields (1937) , Mildred Bailey (1938) , Coleman Hawkins (1944) , Stan Getz (1952) , Erroll Garner (1954) , Ella Fitzgerald (1955) , Bud Shank (1956) , Platters (1959) , Frank Sinatra (1960) , Ramsey Lewis (1961) , Anita O'Day (1966) , Lee Konitz (1977) , Weather Report (1979) , Harry Nilsson (1990s) , Stacey Kent (2001) , |
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| Leo Robin also wrote the lyrics to Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend and with this same Ralph Grainger he cowrote Blue Hawaii. (see there) |
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