WHIFFENPOOF SONG

Created on 30/11/2022
Latest update on 30/11/2022

Artist: Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees
Author: George S. Pomeroy/Meade Minnigerode/Tod B. Galloway
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1937

Top 20 US. College standard and according to Dylan (in The Philosophy of Modern Song) this song belongs to everybody. Sing it and it becomes entirely yours.

Covers:

1946:

Tex Beneke [with the Glenn Miller Orch.; top 20 US]

1947:

Robert Merrill [top 20 US]

1947:

Whiffenpoofs Yale Univ. School Of Music [sang it since 1909]

1947:

Bing Crosby [top 10 US]

1951:

Ravens

1952:

Marcel Thielemans & The Ramblers [as Vaarwel En Adieu]

1952:

Compagnons De La Chanson [as Chanson à ma bien aimée]

1954:

Louis Armstrong [as Boppenpoof Song]

1956:

Slim Whitman

1961:

Billy Vaughn

1963:

Lettermen

1965:

Statler Bros.

1969:

Elvis Presley [outtake film The Trouble With Girls]

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