Artist: William Frawley
Author: Walter Donaldson/Sam Lewis/Joe Young
Year: 1918
Vaudeville performer.
Covers:
Aileen Stanley [top 10 US]
Yerkes Jazarimba Orch. [top 10 US]
Isham Jones [hit US]
Al Jolson [in film The Jazz Singer, later again in musical Sinbad; n°2 US]
Larry Parks [dubbed by Al Jolson in film The Jolson Story and again in '49 in film Jolson Sings Again]
Eddie Fisher [with the Hugo Winterhalter orchestra]
Coauthor Walter Donaldson also wrote the music of Love Me Or Leave Me, Makin' Whoopee, My Baby Just Cares For Me, My Blue Heaven and Yes Sir That's My Baby. For more songs of the other two, Sam Lewis & Joe Young, see: In A Little Spanish Town and I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter.
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Arnold Rypens
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