Artist: Harry Richman
Author: Irving Berlin
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1930
In film Puttin' On The Ritz; this ex piano player in vaudeville was also an airplane world record holder, altitude and distance.
Covers:
Clark Gable [in film Idiot's Delight]
Fred Astaire [in film Blue Skies, with new (hep) lyrics by Berlin and legendary dance steps]
Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle [in film Young Frankenstein]
Taco [from Friesland (NL)]
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince [sample in Just One Of Those Days]
See also: Istanbul (Not Constantinopel).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)