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:
Paul Whiteman [top 10 US]
Allan Jones & Irene Dunn [in film Show Boat]
Guy Lombardo [in a Show Boat medley]
Tony Martin & Kathryn Grayson [in film Till The Clouds Roll By]
Kathryn Grayson & Howard Keel [in second film Show Boat]
Elvis Presley [home recording]
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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Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)