 In 1948 " I 'm Just Wild About Harry " underwent a revival when Harry S. Truman selected it as his campaign song for the presidency of the United States . Republicans and some Democrats that year joked , " I 'm just mild about Harry . " The next year Al Jolson performed it in the film Jolson Sings Again and the song became a jazz standard . This return to popularity briefly reunited Blake and Sissle for the first time since 1933 . In 1955 , the song again appeared in the Warner Brothers cartoon short One Froggy Evening as one of the songs sung by Michigan J. Frog during his dance routine . Writing about American popular songs in 1972 , Wilder and Maher call " I 'm Just Wild About Harry " the only enduringly popular song from Shuffle Along . On The Muppet Show , Jean Stapleton performed the song with the mad bomber and pyrotechnician Muppet character , Crazy Harry , who accompanies her singing on his explodaphone , which consisted partly of a line of plunger blasting machines wired to set off numerous explosive charges in time with the lyrics . 
