Artist: Henry Burr & Albert Campbell
Author: Henry Creamer/Turner Layton
Label: Columbia/Pathé
Year: 1918
Added to musical So Long, Letty, a Broadway flop in 1907, but this song survived.
Covers:
Marion Harris [n°1 US]
Billy Murray [with Gladys Rice]
Bessie Smith [part of her standard set]
Sophie Tucker [idem]
Louis Armstrong [a hit in '32]
Tommy Dorsey [later also in film Paper Moon with Ryan & Tatum O'Neal]
Judy Garland [and in '61 At Carnegie Hall]
Helen Shapiro [hit UK]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band [vocal: Del McCoury]
Hugh Laurie [with Dr. John]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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