who wrote you must have been a beautiful baby
Johnny Mercer lyrics by Johnny Mercer music by Harry Warren Harry Warren
title: You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby text: You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, published in 1938 by Remick Music Corporation. It was featured in the Warner Brothers movie "Hard to Get," released November 1938, in which it was sung by Dick Powell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by Bing Crosby, with Bob Crosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by Tommy Dorsey (with vocal by Edythe Wright) and Russ Morgan. It was also revived by Bobby Darin in 1961, reaching title: You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby text: 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. It was used frequently in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, also produced by Warner Brothers, under the musical direction of Carl W. Stalling. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, published in 1938 by Remick Music Corporation. It was featured in the Warner Brothers movie "Hard to Get," released November 1938, title: A Beautiful Child text: A Beautiful Child A Beautiful Child () was published in America in 2004 and in paperback in 2005. It tells the story of a young woman known by many names, including Sharon Marshall, who was kidnapped as a toddler and raised by a convicted felon, Franklin Delano Floyd. Written by author Matt Birkbeck, "A Beautiful Child" spurred numerous web sites dedicated to finding Sharon's true identity. Through suggestions from those sites, Birkbeck, in partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, have conducted DNA testing on relatives of several girls who went missing in the early 1970s. Until title: Johnny Mercer text: with the veteran composer Richard Whiting ("Ain't We Got Fun?"), soon producing his standard, "Too Marvelous for Words", followed by "Hooray for Hollywood". After Whiting's sudden death from a heart attack, Mercer joined forces with Harry Warren and created "Jeepers Creepers", which earned Mercer his first Oscar nomination for Best Song (1938). It was given a memorable recording by Louis Armstrong. Another hit with Warren in 1938 was "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby". The pair also created "Hooray for Spinach", a comic song produced for the film "Naughty but Nice" in 1939. During a lull at Warners, Mercer title: Bob Crosby text: theme song the band chose George Gershwin's song "Summertime", and in addition to their theme the band's hit records included "South Rampart Street Parade" (its biggest hit), "March of the Bob Cats", "In a Little Gypsy Tea Room", "Whispers in the Dark", "Day In, Day Out", "Down Argentine Way", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "Dolores", and "New San Antonio Rose" (last three with Bing Crosby). A novelty bass-and-drums duet between Haggart and Bauduc, "Big Noise from Winnetka", became a hit in 1938-39. The enduring popularity of the Bob-Cats led by Bob Crosby, whose biography was written by British