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 first cut by Hutchinson months before. Coauthor Eric Maschwitz (signing under alias Holt Marvell) was scriptwriter 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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