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Artist: Paul Whiteman Orch.
Author: Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg/Billy Rose
Label: Victor
Year: 1933
Top 10 US. Vocal: Peggy Healy. Already introduced late '32 by Claire Carleton in the flopped Broadway play The Great Magoo as If You Believed In Me, but she never recorded it.
Covers:
Cliff Edwards [in film Take A Chance; top 20 US]
Hal Kemp [for Brunswick; vocal: Skinny Ellis]
George Olsen [for Columbia; vocal: Joe Morrison]
King Cole Trio [version that really launched the song]
Ella Fitzgerald [top 10 US]
Benny Goodman [top 10 US]
Barbra Streisand & James Caan [in film Funny Lady]
James Taylor [in film A League Of Their Own]
Toots Thielemans [with Laura Fygi]
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)