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Helen Kane, who originally sang I Wanna Be Loved by You

I Wanna Be Loved by You lyrics

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I Wanna Be Loved by You song lyrics (1928) by  Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby, with lyrics by Bert Kalmar

I Wanna Be Loved by You was one of Marilyn Monroe’s most famous musical performances is her singing it in Billy Wilder’s classic farce Some Like It Hot. The song was first performed in late 1928 by Helen Kane, who became known as the — €˜Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl’ because of her baby-talk, scat-singing tag line to that song. It was  written by Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby, with lyrics by Bert Kalmar, for the 1928 musical Good BoyRead More »I Wanna Be Loved by You lyrics

My Sunny Tennessee lyrics, from the musical Three Little Words starring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton

My Sunny Tennessee lyrics

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My Sunny Tennessee lyrics, by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Herman Ruby – (from the musical Three Little Words starring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton)

When the shades of night are falling
Tennessee, I hear you calling;
My thoughts just roam
Back to home, sweet home.
Every day my heart grows fonder,
Of the folks I left down yonder;
I wonder when I’ll be there again.

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Where did you get that girl? lyrics

Where Did You Get That Girl lyrics

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Where Did You Get That Girl lyrics — €“ words by Bert Kalmar, music by Harry Puck, 1913

(sung in Three Little Words, starring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton)

Lonesome Johnnie Warner, sitting in a corner
of a swell cafe, eating his heart away
because he had no girl,
at another table, sat a girl named Mable
with a fellow who Johnnie knew and his brain began to whirl
The girl had caught his eye and John began to cry.

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