Artist: Hoagy Carmichael
Author: Hoagy Carmichael/Sidney Arodin
Label: Victor
Year: 1930
With Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey and Joe Venuti. In '46 in film The Best Years Of Our Lives. Coauthor Sidney Arodin, creole saxophone player from New Orleans, informally referred to it as Lazy Nigger. First hit for BMI.
Covers:
Joe Venuti [vocal and trumpet: Louis Prima]
Si Zentner [NARAS award]
Annie Cordy [as Hop dans la rivière]
George Shearing [the last version Hoagy heard before his death]
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