WHAT DO YOU WANT TO MAKE THOSE EYES AT ME FOR?

Created on 05/10/2008
Latest update on 26/10/2023

Artist: Sam Ash
Author: Joseph McCarthy/Howard Johnson/Jimmy Monaco
Label: Columbia
Year: 1916

(When They Don't Mean What They Say).

Covers:

1917:

Ada Jones & Billy Murray [in musical The Better 'Ole; see also: Shine On Harvest Moon.]

1928:

Sophie Tucker

1944:

Donald O'Connor [in film The Merry Monahans]

1945:

Betty Hutton [in film Incendiary Blonde; it had been a hit during WW I, now again at the end of WW II]

1959:

Johnny Otis & Marie Adams

1959:

Emile Ford & The Checkmates [n°1 UK]

1960:

Ray Peterson

1960:

Ragner Bjarnason [hit in Iceland]

1960:

Spelbrekers [as Waarom Geef Je Mij Steeds Een Knipoog?]

1972:

Dandy

1987:

Shakin' Stevens

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