Artist: Cliff Edwards
Author: George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin
Label: Perfect/Pathé
Year: 1925
Introduced it along with Fred & Adele Astaire in Broadway musical Lady Be Good.
Covers:
Fred & Adele Astaire [with Gershwin on piano for Columbia]
Tommy Dorsey [in film Girl Crazy]
Tony Bennett [as Joe Bari for Leslie Records]
Deep Purple [riff throughout Burn, title track of their first album in the Mark III line-up; vocal: David Coverdale]
Riot [idem]
Mr. Big [idem]
W.A.S.P. [idem]
Also by The Carpenters, Rosemary Clooney, Xavier Cugat, Jamie Cullum, Vic Damone, Wayne Fontana, The Four Tops, Judy Garland, Benny Goodman, Stéphane Grappelli, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lee Konitz, Herbie Mann, Maureen McGovern, Buddy Rich, George Shearing, Mel Tormé and Paul Whiteman.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)