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Artist: Louis Armstrong
Author: Johnny Mercer/Harry Warren
Label: Decca
Year: 1938
In film Going Places where Satchmo sings it for a horse. Again in '74 in film Day Of The Locust. Lyricist Johnny Mercer first heard this expression from Henry Fonda. His first Academy Award.
Covers:
Ethel Waters [oldest recording (Bluebird)]
Artie Shaw [in film Symphony Of Swing; vocal: Tony Pastor]
Joyce Reynolds & Charles Smith [in film Yankee Doodle Dandy]
Scatman Crothers [parody on Casablanca pianist Sam (see: As Time Goes By) in film The Cheap Detective]
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)