Artist: Joyce Barbour, Steffi Dunn, Norah Howard & Doris Hare
Author: Noël Coward
Year: 1932
In revue Words And Music. Mad Dogs And Englishmen was introduced there as well. Opened at the Manchester Opera House for a trial run before it moved to the Adelphi Theatre.
Covers:
Noël Coward [with Ray Noble's Orchestra]
New Mayfair Dance Orch. [for HMV]
Jack Hylton [vocal by Phyllis Robins]
Beatrice Lillie & Friends [in Broadway revue Set To Music]
Dinah Washington [a '61 recording arranged by Quincy Jones became a big hit following the use as a Levi's commercial]
Cybill Shepherd [wth Stan Getz]
Miss Piggy [as Mad About The Frog]
Marianne Faithfull [in Noël Coward tribute Twentieth Century Blues; Marianne also recorded that title track]
Jools Holland [with Caro Emerald]
Coward wrote this about either Douglas Fairbanks Jr or James Cagney.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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