MAKIN' WHOOPEE!

Created on 21/02/2006
Latest update on 24/02/2023

Artist: Eddie Cantor
Author: Gus Kahn/Walter Donaldson
Label: Victor
Year: 1928

In naughty musical Whoopee, Walter Donaldson's only Broadway show. Along with Love Me Or Leave Me (see there). Cantor sang it again in the 1930 film version.

Covers:

1929:

Paul Whiteman [vocal by Bing Crosby]

1947:

King Cole Trio

1951:

Doris Day & Danny Thomas [in film I'll See You In My Dreams]

1955:

Ella Fitzgerald

1955:

Art Tatum

1956:

Frank Sinatra

1963:

Anneke Grönloh [as Hij Kan Niet Vrijen]

1964:

Ray Charles

1965:

Esther Phillips

1966:

Baba Brooks [as King Size]

1970s:

Cookie Monster [as Eatin' Cookie]

1973:

Harry Nilsson

1980:

Yoko Ono [as Yes, I'm Your Angel; triggering legal action]

1989:

Dr. John [with Rickie Lee Jones]

1989:

Michelle Pfeiffer [in film Fabulous Baker Boys]

2003:

Cyndi Lauper [with Tony Bennett]

2006:

Rod Stewart [with Elton John]

2008:

Elton John [with Elvis Costello and Diana Krall]

2017:

Yannick Bovy

2017:

Van Morrison

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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