flip side, "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)", reached No. 1. The record was also released, with the same flip side, in the United Kingdom, by HMV with catalog number BD-1180. It was re-released in the USA in 1949 as a 78rpm single (catalog number 20-3300-A) and a 45rpm single (catalog number 47-2888), with the flip side "Song of Songs". The 1947 revival of the song led to a number of artists recording it that year: Al Jolson with Vocal Chorus and Orchestra directed by Morris Stoloff (June 18, 1947, Decca Records 24106) Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra (vocal: Jimmy Castle) (1947) Steve Conway (April 5, 1948, UK Columbia F.B. 3398) Josef Locke (April 16, 1948, UK Columbia D.B. 2409) Joe Loss and his Orchestra (vocal by Howard Jones) (Recorded in London, March 11, 1948; released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label BD 6007) The Mills Brothers (January 1950, Decca 24764) The Chordettes (1950) The Ink Spots (1959) Etta Jones (1975,on Westbound Records album) The Fureys with Davey Arthur, who took it to number 14 in the UK in October 1981 Glen Campbell (1985, on It's Just a Matter of Time) Tommy Fleming (2009, on Live at Saint Patrick's Cathedral [DVD]) Barry Manilow (2010, on The Greatest Love Songs of All Time) Jim Whitman (2011, on A Little Bit of Country) Chris Doran (2011, on Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You) Daniel O'Donnell (2011, on Moon Over Ireland) Emmet Cahill (2017, on Emmet Cahill's Ireland) Other influence "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" is a standard of barbershop quartets. The song has been used in films a number of times. In the 1930 military comedy High C's, starring Charley Chase, it was sung by the soldiers while they are being bombed. Shirley Temple sang it in 1938 in the movie Little Miss Broadway. In the 1946 film The Jolson Story, it was sung by Rudy Wissler dubbing for Scotty Beckett who was portraying the young Al Jolson. This song also appears in the 1987 film "Ironweed" starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. A mustachioed barkeep sings this song behind his bar. The song was sung by Steve Coogan in 2019 for the comedy series This Time With Alan Partridge. Notes References External links Lyrics with guitar chords at Irish-Folk-Songs.com "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" sung by J. W. Myers, 1901 recording at Library of Congress National Jukebox