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:
Tex Beneke [with the Glenn Miller Orch.; top 20 US]
Robert Merrill [top 20 US]
Whiffenpoofs Yale Univ. School Of Music [sang it since 1909]
Bing Crosby [top 10 US]
Marcel Thielemans & The Ramblers [as Vaarwel En Adieu]
Compagnons De La Chanson [as Chanson à ma bien aimée]
Louis Armstrong [as Boppenpoof Song]
Elvis Presley [outtake film The Trouble With Girls]
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)