PRETTY BABY

Created on 26/06/2014
Latest update on 14/09/2022

Artist: Emerson Military Band
Author: Tony Jackson
Year: 1916

Written by New Orleans piano professor Tony Jackson in 1912. He was the regular entertainer at Countess Willie V. Piazza's (317 Basin St), the Storyville bordello with the most beautiful octoroons in the whole South. Jelly Roll Morton was another regular. Gay inspired original lyrics. Tony was never recorded.

Covers:

1916:

Billy Murray [n°1 US for Victor with revised lyrics by Gus Kahn/Egbert Van Alstyne]

1916:

Fanny Brice

1916:

Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan

1916:

Henry Burr

1948:

Al Jolson & Judy Garland

1948:

Doris Day [in film Young Man With A Horn]

1948:

Bing Crosby

1957:

Dean Martin [title track lp]

1958:

Chris Barber

1959:

Brenda Lee

1978:

Antonio Fargas [in Louis Malle film Pretty Baby starring Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon and Keith Caradine]

1990:

Leon Redbone

See also Steppin' Out.

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