IF YOU WERE THE ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD

Created on 28/02/2003
Latest update on 16/01/2024

Artist: Violet Loraine & George Robey
Author: Nat Ayer/Clifford Grey
Label: Columbia
Year: 1916

From the hit musical that year The Bing Boys Are Here (followed one year later by The Bing Boys Are There and in 1918 by The Bing Boys On Broadway).

Covers:

1917:

Henry Burr

1929:

Rudy Vallee [in film The Vagabond Lover]

1946:

Perry Como [hit US]

1946:

Tex Beneke

1949:

Donald Peers

1953:

Doris Day

1955:

Jackie Gleason

1956:

Louis Prima

1957:

Gogi Grant [in film The Helen Morgan Story, dubbing for Ann Blyth]

1958:

Gene Krupa

1958:

Sonny Rollins

1959:

Johnny Kidd & The Pirates

1963:

Kathy Kirby [as If You Were The Only Boy In This World]

1964:

Esther Ofarim & Rudi Carrell [in the Rudi Carrell Show, landing him a Silver Rose award in Montreux]

1964:

Dean Martin

1965:

Barbra Streisand [as If You Were The Only Boy In The World]

1977:

Paul Nicholas

1980:

Laurence Welk

2011:

Alfie Boe [in tv series Downtown Abbey]

2016:

Bobby Darin [sixties recording]

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