CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS?

Created on 25/02/2026
Latest update on 25/02/2026

Artist: Libby Holman
Author: Kay Swift/James Paul Warburg
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1929

From The Little Show on Broadway. Written by a couple falling apart, when it became obvious Kay Swift had something going on with George Gershwin, ...who named his next musical Oh, Kay.

Covers:

1929:

Red Nichols [also for Brunswick]

1929:

Bing Crosby

1929:

Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens

1931:

Jack Hylton

1931:

Ray Noble Orch. [vocal: Al Bowlly]

1948:

Mildred Bailey

1955:

Frank Sinatra [on In The Wee Small Hours]

1956:

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

1961:

Sammy Davis Jr.

1984:

Linda Ronstadt [with the Nelson Riddle Orch.]

2004:

Jamie Cullum

2012:

Chick Corea & Gary Burton

Contact


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