Artist: Ray Bolger
Author: Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg
Label: MGM
Year: 1939
The Scarecrow (along with Judy Garland) in film The Wizard Of Oz, where there's also an If I Only Had A Heart by Tin Man (Jack Haley) and an If I Only Had The Nerve by the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr).
Covers:
Oblomow [vocal: Gerry De Mol]
First composed (by the same authors) as I'm Hanging On To You for Broadway musical Hooray For What in '37 but outvoted. The original version as If I Only Had A Brain was a bit tame compared to the version that made it and finally re-surfaced in '09.
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)