Artist: Roger Wolfe Kahn
Author: Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1930
With Scrappy Lambert. Introduced on Broadway by Harry Richman & Gertrude Lawrence in the (unrecorded) International Revue; see also: On The Sunny Side Of The Street. Same composers Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh cowrote I Can't Give You Anything But Love and I'm In The Mood For Love (see there).
Covers:
Ruth Etting [Broadway musical queen who's life was filmed (Love Me Or Leave Me, with Doris Day as Ruth)]
Benny Goodman [vocal: Lionel Hampton]
Also cut by Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz, Stephane Grappelli, Coleman Hawkins, Helen Humes, Marvin Gaye, Richard 'Groove' Holmes, Willie Nelson and Johnny Guitar Watson.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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