MAKE BELIEVE

Created on 02/12/2023
Latest update on 02/12/2023

Artist: Ben Bernie
Author: Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1928

Introduced by Howard Marsh & Norma Terris in Broadway musical Show Boat (Dec. 1927).

Covers:

1928:

Paul Whiteman [top 10 US]

1936:

Allan Jones & Irene Dunn [in film Show Boat]

1937:

Gracie Fields

1938:

Guy Lombardo [in a Show Boat medley]

1938:

Benny Goodman

1946:

Tommy Dorsey

1946:

Tony Martin & Kathryn Grayson [in film Till The Clouds Roll By]

1950:

Jo Stafford

1951:

Kathryn Grayson & Howard Keel [in second film Show Boat]

1960:

Elvis Presley [home recording]

1963:

Joséphine Baker

1964:

Barbra Streisand

1965:

Burl Ives

1988:

Harry Nilsson

1995:

Roger Whittaker

2015:

Tony Bennett [on a Jerome Kern-tribute]

Not to be confused with two other Make Believes, both from 1921, one by Ada Jones & Billy Murray (top 3 US), the other by Nora Bayes (n°1 US), again Paul Whiteman (n°2 US) and Isham Jones (top 5 US).

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