Artist: Whispering Jack Smith
Author: Dave Dreyer/Al Jolson/Billy Rose
Label: Victor
Year: 1927
First crooner against all odds; his lungs affected by a gas explosion during WW I he couldn't sing but softly.
Covers:
Frank Fay [in revue Harry Delmar's Revels]
Barbra Streisand [in film Funny Lady]
Robbie Williams [with his room mate Jonathan Wilkes]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)