Artist: Dick Powell & Ruby Keeler
Author: Harry Warren/Al Dubin
Year: 1934
In Busby Berkley film musical Dames; Ruby Keeler has only a spoken part in this scene.
Covers:
Eddie Jackson [first recording (Vocalion)]
Scott Wood [also in BBC TV series Pennies From Heaven]
Coleman Hawkins [with The Ramblers; vocal: Annie de Reuver]
Doris Day & Gordon MacRae [in film Tea For Two]
Flamingos [top 3 R&B]
Johnny White [as Ik Kijk Alleen Maar Naar Jou]
Jerry Butler [top 20 R&B]
Art Garfunkel [top 20 US]
Fugees [sample from Flamingos version in Zealots]
Al Dubin & Harry Warren (real name: Salvatore Guaragna) also cowrote Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and Lullaby Of Broadway. With Joe Burke, Al Dubin wrote Tip Toe Through The Tulips. (see there)
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Arnold Rypens
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