Artist: Leslie Hutchinson
Author: Harry Link/Jack Strachey/Eric Maschwitz
Label: Parlophone
Year: 1936
Introduced by Dorothy Dickson in the British musical comedy Spread It Abroad, but months before first cut by Hutchinson. Co-author Eric Maschwitz (signing under alias Holt Marvell) was script writer for the BBC and co-wrote A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (see there).
Covers:
Madge Elliott & Cyril Ritchard [in Broadway version]
Benny Goodman [vocal: Helen Ward; n°1 US]
Billie Holiday [with Teddy Wilson; top 5 US]
Carroll Gibbons [hit US]
Jean Sablon [as Ces petites choses]
Frank Sinatra [freewheeling lyrically about Bing Crosby]
Lee Konitz [with Gerry Mulligan]
Soft Machine [motiv in Pataphysical Introduction - Pt II]
Jane Birkin & Jimmy Rowles [in film Daddy Nostalgie]
The New Fast Automatic Daffodils do other Foolish Things.
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