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"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a popular
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
 song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
 with music by Harry Warren
Harry Warren

Harry Warren was an Italian-American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film and had more hit songs than any other composer of the 20th Century....
 and lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
, published in 1938
1938 in music

Events* January 16**Benny Goodman plays the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.**B?la Bart?k's Sonata for two pianos and percussion is premiered in Basel....
. It was featured in the movie Hard to Get, released November 1938
1938 in film

The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
, where it was sung by Dick Powell
Dick Powell

Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
.

Originally, the song was recorded by Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
 for the biggest-selling hit version, while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey was an United States jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big band era. He was the younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey....
 (with vocal by Edythe Wright
Edythe Wright

Edythe Wright was a singer best known for her work with Tommy Dorsey.She was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. After graduating from New Brunswick High School in 1933 she attended the Douglass Residential College ....
) and Russ Morgan
Russ Morgan

Russ Morgan was a Big Band orchestra leader....
. It was also revived in 1961 in music
1961 in music

Events*January 15 - Motown Records signs The Supremes*January 20 - Francis Poulenc's Gloria is premiered in Boston*February 12 - The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single...
, reaching the charts again that year.






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"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a popular
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
 song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
 with music by Harry Warren
Harry Warren

Harry Warren was an Italian-American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film and had more hit songs than any other composer of the 20th Century....
 and lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
, published in 1938
1938 in music

Events* January 16**Benny Goodman plays the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.**B?la Bart?k's Sonata for two pianos and percussion is premiered in Basel....
. It was featured in the movie Hard to Get, released November 1938
1938 in film

The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
, where it was sung by Dick Powell
Dick Powell

Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
.

Originally, the song was recorded by Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
 for the biggest-selling hit version, while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey was an United States jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big band era. He was the younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey....
 (with vocal by Edythe Wright
Edythe Wright

Edythe Wright was a singer best known for her work with Tommy Dorsey.She was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. After graduating from New Brunswick High School in 1933 she attended the Douglass Residential College ....
) and Russ Morgan
Russ Morgan

Russ Morgan was a Big Band orchestra leader....
. It was also revived in 1961 in music
1961 in music

Events*January 15 - Motown Records signs The Supremes*January 20 - Francis Poulenc's Gloria is premiered in Boston*February 12 - The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single...
, reaching the charts again that year. The song has been recorded by many other artists (see below for a partial list) and is considered a popular standard.

Recorded versions


  • Kenny Ball
    Kenny Ball

    Kenneth Daniel Ball is a United Kingdom jazz musician, best known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen....
     and his Jazzmen
  • Dan Barrett
  • Blue Barron
    Blue Barron

    Blue Barron was an United States Bandleader in the 1940s and early 1950s during the "Big Band" era.Born Harry Freidman in Cleveland, Ohio, he studied at Ohio State University before going into show business....
     and his orchestra (recorded October 1, 1938, released by Bluebird Records
    Bluebird Records

    Bluebird Records is a sub-record label of RCA Victor Records originally created in 1932 in music to counter ARC Records in the "3 records for a dollar" market....
     as catalog number
    Catalog numbering systems for single records

    This article presents the numbering systems used by various record companies for single gramophone records....
     7886 and by Montgomery Ward
    Montgomery Ward

    Montgomery Ward is an online retailer that is somewhat connected to the former American department store chain, founded as the world's first mail order business in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward....
     Records as catalog number 7537, both with the flip side "It's Time to Say Aloha")
  • Michael Bublé
    Michael Bublé

    Michael Steven Bubl? is a Canada big band vocalist and actor. He has won several awards, including a Grammy Award and multiple Juno Awards. While his first album reached the top ten in Lebanon, the United Kingdom and his home country of Canada, it achieved only modest chart success in the United States....
     on his album "Babalu
    Babalu

    Babalu may refer to:* Babalu - a 1940s song popularized by Desi Arnaz.* Babalu Aye, the spirit of illness and disease in Yoruba mythology...
    " which was recorded before his break-through
  • Chick Bullock
    Chick Bullock

    Chick Bullock was a popular American jazz and Dance Band vocalist, most active in the 1930s. He recorded some 500 tunes over the course of his career....
     (recorded October 20, 1938, released by Conqueror Records
    Conqueror Records

    Conqueror Records was a United States-based record label, active from about 1926 in music through 1942 in music. The label was sold exclusively through Sears, Roebuck and Company....
     as catalog number 9149, with the flip side "I Won't Tell a Soul")
  • Billy Butterfield
    Billy Butterfield

    Billy Butterfield was a band leader, jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist.He studied cornet with Frank Simons, but later switched to studying medicine....
  • Dorothy Carless
  • The Dave Clark Five
    The Dave Clark Five

    The Dave Clark Five were an England pop rock group. It was the second group of the British Invasion, after The Beatles, to have a record chart hit record in the United States ....
     (released in 1967 as a U.S. single on Epic Records
    Epic Records

    Epic Records is an United States record label. It is owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment. The label was founded in 1953 as a jazz label, and was eventually expanded to several genres of music....
    , catalog number 10179, with the flip side "Man in the Pin-Stripe Suit")
  • Robert Clary
    Robert Clary

    Robert Clary is a France-born Jewish-United States actor, author, and lecturer....
     (released by Capitol Records
    Capitol Records

    Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood, California and New York City as part of Capitol Music Group....
     as catalog number 891, with the flip side "Alouette
    Alouette (song)

    "Alouette" is a popular Canada children's song about plucking the feathers off a skylark, a small bird. It originated with the French Canadian fur trade....
    ")
  • Perry Como
    Perry Como

    Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
     (recorded March 21, 1946, released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-1916, with the flip side "A Garden in the Rain
    A Garden in the Rain

    "A Garden in the Rain" is a popular music song.The music was written by Carroll Gibbons, the lyrics by James Dyrenforth. The song was published in 1928....
    ")
  • Sam Costa
    Sam Costa

    Samuel Gabriel 'Sam' Costa was a singer and a voice actor on the show Much Binding In The Marsh. He was also a Radio Luxembourg and BBC disc jockey....
  • The Crew Cuts
  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
     (recorded October 14, 1938, released by Decca Records
    Decca Records

    Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
     as catalog number 2147A, with the flip side "Summertime
    Summertime (song)

    "Summertime" is the name of an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin....
    ")
  • Vic Damone
    Vic Damone

    Vic Damone is an United States singer and entertainer....
  • Bobby Darin
    Bobby Darin

    Bobby Darin was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country....
     (recorded on June 19, 1961 released on Atco 6206, with the flip side "Sorrow Tomorrow"; the biggest hit version, reaching U.S. #5 and UK #10)
  • Jack Donahue
    Jack Donahue

    Jack Donahue was a bushranger in Australia. He had numerous ballads written about him, including Wild Colonial Boy.Jack Donahue was born in Dublin in 1804....
  • Tommy Dorsey
    Tommy Dorsey

    Tommy Dorsey was an United States jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big band era. He was the younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey....
     and his Clambake 7 with vocal by Edythe Wright
    Edythe Wright

    Edythe Wright was a singer best known for her work with Tommy Dorsey.She was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. After graduating from New Brunswick High School in 1933 she attended the Douglass Residential College ....
     (recorded September 29, 1938, released by Victor Records as catalog number 26066, with the flip side "Sailing at Midnight")
  • Kenny Drew
    Kenny Drew

    Kenneth Sidney Drew was an United States jazz pianist.Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington....
  • Nancy Dussault
    Nancy Dussault

    Nancy Dussault is an United States singer and actress. She grew up as a "Navy junior". A former resident of Arlington, Virginia, she graduated from Washington-Lee High School where she was an actress and singer in the formidable W-L drama program under director Jack Jeglum and a choral singer in the nationally known Washington-Lee High Scho...
  • Peter Fountain
  • Nat Gonella
    Nat Gonella

    Nathaniel Charles Gonella was an English people jazz trumpeter, bandleader, vocalist and mellophone born in London, perhaps most notable for his work with the big band he founded, The Georgians....
  • Dick Haymes
    Dick Haymes

    Dick Haymes was an actor and one of the most popular Singing of the 1940s and early 1950s....
  • The Hi-Lo's
    The Hi-Lo's

    The Hi-Lo's were an a cappella quartet formed in 1953. They named themselves the "Hi-Lo's" to emphasize their collective vocal range.The group consisted of:...
  • Kenny Hing
  • Eddy Howard
    Eddy Howard

    Eddy Howard was a vocalist and bandleader who was popular during the 1940s and 1950s.After attending San Jose State University from 1931 to 1933, Howard studied medicine at Stanford University before dropping out to become a singer of romantic ballads on Los Angeles radio....
     and his orchestra
  • Joni James
    Joni James

    Joni James is an United States singer of traditional pop music....
  • John Kirby
    John Kirby (musician)

    John Kirby , was a jazz double-bassist who played the trombone as well as tuba....
     and his orchestra
  • Billy Kyle
    Billy Kyle

    William Osborne "Billy" Kyle was an United States jazz pianist.Kyle was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began playing the piano in school and by the early 1930s worked with Lucky Millinder, and later the Mills Blue Rhythm Band....
  • Nancy Lamott
    Nancy LaMott

    Nancy LaMott was a singer popular on the New York City cabaret circuit in the 1990s....
  • Julius LaRosa
  • Peggy Lee
    Peggy Lee

    Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
  • Joe Loss
    Joe Loss

    Joshua Alexander Loss or Joe Loss OBE was an England musician and founder of The Joe Loss Orchestra, a light orchestra....
     & his Band with vocal by Chick Henderson (recorded January 21, 1939 released on Regal Zonophone MR-2992)
  • George Maharis
    George Maharis

    George Maharis is an American actor best known for his role as Buz Murdock in first three seasons of the TV series Route 66 . Maharis also recorded numerous pop music albums at the height of his fame, and later starred in the short-lived TV series The Most Deadly Game....
  • Dean Martin
    Dean Martin

    Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
  • Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer

    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
     (recorded January, 1974, released on the album My Huckleberry Friend
    My Huckleberry Friend

    "...My Huckleberry Friend": Johnny Mercer Sings the Songs of Johnny Mercer is an album by singer/composer Johnny Mercer, released in 1974....
    .)
  • Russ Morgan
    Russ Morgan

    Russ Morgan was a Big Band orchestra leader....
     and his orchestra (recorded August 26, 1938, released by Decca Records
    Decca Records

    Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
     as catalog number 2125A, with the flip side "This Is Madness")
  • Tommy Newsom
    Tommy Newsom

    Thomas Penn "Tommy" Newsom was a saxophone player in the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, for which he later became assistant director....
  • Gary Nicholls
  • Red Norvo
    Red Norvo

    Red Norvo was one of jazz's early vibraphone, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped establish the xylophone and later the vibraphone as viable jazz instruments....
     and his orchestra (vocal: Mildred Bailey
    Mildred Bailey

    Mildred Bailey was a popular and influential United States jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "Mrs. Swing". Her number one hits were "Please Be Kind", "Darn That Dream", and "Says My Heart"....
    ; released by Brunswick Records
    Brunswick Records

    Brunswick Records is a United States based record label. The label is currently distributed by Koch Entertainment....
     as catalog number 8240, with the flip side "Just You, Just Me")
  • Paul Peterson
    Paul Peterson

    For the actor and novelist William Paul Petersen, see Paul Petersen. For the football player and coach, see Paul Peterson .Paul Peterson, also known as St....
  • Oscar Peterson
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
  • Dick Powell
    Dick Powell

    Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
  • Lillian Roth
    Lillian Roth

    Lillian Roth was an United States singer and actress....
  • Jan Savitt
    Jan Savitt

    Jan Savitt was an American bandleader, musical arranger, and violinist. He was invited to joined the Philadelphia Orchestra when was only nineteen, having studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and in Europe....
  • Bob Scobey
    Bob Scobey

    Bob Scobey was an American jazz musician born in Tucumcari, New Mexico.He began his career playing in dance orchestras and nightclubs in the 1930s....
  • Ralph Sharon
    Ralph Sharon

    Ralph Sharon is a jazz pianist....
  • Artie Shaw
    Artie Shaw

    Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an United States jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest jazz clarinetists of his time....
  • Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  • Bob Smith and the Herman Chittison
    Herman Chittison

    Herman Chittison was an United States jazz piano.He began in Zack Whyte's band in 1928. In his early days he worked with Ethel Waters, Adelaide Hall, and Clarence Williams....
     Trio (released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-2266, with the flip side "Where's Sam?")
  • Maxine Sullivan
    Maxine Sullivan

    Maxine Sullivan was an United States blues and jazz singer....
  • Toni Tennille
    Toni Tennille

    Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille is one-half of the 1970s Grammy Award winning duet , Captain & Tennille. Toni has also done musical work independently of her husband Daryl Dragon....
  • Bobby Vee
    Bobby Vee

    Bobby Vee is an United States pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine Vee has had 38 Billboard Hot 100 record chart hit record, 10 of which hit the Top 20....
  • Lee Wiley
    Lee Wiley

    Lee Wiley was an United States jazz singer popular in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She possessed an attractive, slightly husky tone and delivered lyrics with warmth and intimacy....