"Let Me Call You Sweetheart" is a popular

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 song

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, with music by Leo Friedman

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Leo Friedman was an American composer of popular music. Friedman was born in Elgin, Illinois and died in Chicago, Illinois. He is best remembered for composing the sentimental waltz "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" with lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson in 1910...

 and lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson

Beth Slater Whitson

Beth Slater Whitson was an American lyricist. Whitson was born in Goodrich, Tennessee and died in Nashville, Tennessee...

. The song was published in 1910

1910 in music

-Events:*March 19 - Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1 is premiered in Budapest*June 25 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, is premiered in Paris*September 12 - Gustav Mahler's Symphony No...

 and first recorded by The Peerless Quartet

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The song was recorded by Bette Midler

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 for the film "The Rose

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" and the accompanying "The Rose Soundtrack

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".

The complete lyrics:

I am dreaming Dear of you, day by day

Dreaming when the skies are blue, When they're gray;

When the silv'ry moonlight gleams, Still I wander on in dreams,

In a land of love, it seems, Just with you.

Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you.

Let me hear you whisper that you love me too.

Keep the love-light glowing in your eyes so true.

Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you.

Longing for you all the while, More and more;

Longing for the sunny smile, I adore;

Birds are singing far and near, Roses blooming ev'rywhere

You, alone, my heart can cheer; You, just you.

Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you.

Let me hear you whisper that you love me too.

Keep the love-light glowing in your eyes so true.

Let me call you "Sweetheart," I'm in love with you.

Trivia

The girl who modeled for the original sheet music is alleged to have been Virginia Rappe

Virginia Rappe

Virginia Rappe was an American model and silent film actress.-Early life and career:Rappe was born to unwed mother Mabel Rapp in New York City. Mabel died when Virginia was 11, and Virginia was then raised by her grandmother in Chicago. At age 14 she began working as a commercial and art model in...

, the subject of the 1921 Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle scandal.

Among the thousands of mainstream appearances of this pop standard are a British advert for mobile phone

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 operator and internet

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 service provider Orange SA

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, involving a wind-up toy of two figures hugging. The version used in this advert was sung by Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

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 from the 1938 film Swiss Miss

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, made with his comic partner Stan Laurel

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. This song was also sung in an episode of Our Gang (the Little Rascals) by Alfalfa Switzer.

It was also performed by George Hearn

George Hearn

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 in Barney's Great Adventure

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, instrumentally by a band in The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Greatest Game Ever Played

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 and by Megan Follows

Megan Follows

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 in Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story

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External Links

• Sheet Music for "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", Harold Rossiter Music Co., 1910.