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Artist: Vaughn DeLeath
Author: Irving Berlin
Label: Okeh
Year: 1927
Introduced by Belle Baker in the Rodgers & Hart show Betsy ('26). What's an Irving Berlin song doing in a Rodgers & Hart musical? It was commissioned by Belle Baker, who probably didn't trust this relatively new songwriting partnership. Blue Skies became the best known song of the show.
Covers:
Don Voorhees [on Edison]
Al Jolson [in film The Jazz Singer; actually his first song in this first talkie ever]
Bing Crosby [in film Blue Skies]
Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye [in film White Christmas]
Lyle Lovett [in film With Honors]
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)