BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE, THE

Created on 09/06/2011
Latest update on 21/10/2016

Artist: George Olsen Orch.
Author: Lew Brown/Buddy DeSylva/Ray Henderson
Label: Victor
Year: 1927

Vocal: Bob Borger. Introduced in musical Good News by Mary Lawlor and John Price Jones. See also: Together.

Covers:

1927:

Frank Black & his Orch.

1947:

Kay Starr

1947:

Jo Stafford

1948:

Dinah Shore

1948:

Ink Spots

1961:

Hank Mobley

1963:

Lena Horne

1964:

Sam Cooke [Live At The Copa]

1965:

Barbra Streisand [in medley]

1969:

Temptations [idem]

2011:

Trijntje Oosterhuis [crediting the authors of the eponymous n°1 R&B for Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson in '92]

Also in film The Best Things In Life Are Free starring Ernest Borgnine ('56).

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