IN MY LITTLE RED BOOK
(Raymond Bloch / Nat Simon / Al Stillman)

Dick Powell - 1938
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians (vocal: Carmen Lombardo) - 1938
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - 1938
Ted Weems & His Orch. (vocal: Perry Como) - 1938
Lew Stone & His Band (vocal: Al Bowlly) - 1938
Vera Lynn - 1938
T. Texas Tyler & His Oklahoma Melody Boys - 1946
Bill Lawrence - 1949
Al Morgan & The Keytones - 1951
Pat Boone - 1955




As recorded by DICK POWELL:

I'm not so much on reading
The books that improve one's mind
'Cause that's all right for scholars
But I'm not the scholarly kind
I just go in for reading
The sort of thing I find

In my little red book, I see somehow
All the girls that I knew and I'm wondering who
Can be kissing them now

Down through memory lane I love to look
At the little blue sighs and the little white lies
In my little red book

But there's a girl I had a yen for
Back in nineteen-thirty-three
That's the one I'd go again for
And if she came back to me

Everybody, but her, I'd overlook
I'd have only one flame, there'd be only one name
In my little red book

(Instrumental Break)

But there's one girl I had a yen for
Back in nineteen-thirty-three
That's the one I'd go again for
And if she came back to me

Everybody, but her, I'd overlook
I'd have only one flame, there'd be only one name
In my little red book


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As recorded by VERA LYNN, March 1938:

In my little red book, I see somehow
All the boys that I knew and I'm wondering who
Can be kissing them now

Down through memory lane I love to look
At the little blue sighs and the little white lies
In my little red book

But there's one boy I had a yen for
Back in nineteen-thirty-three
That's the one I'd go again for
And if he came back to me

Everybody, but him, I'd overlook
I'd have only one flame, there'd be only one name
In my little red book

I've had a few romances
That promised me happiness
I thought they'd last forever
But I surely missed my guess
For now each one is only
A name and an address

In my little red book, I see somehow
All the boys that I knew and I'm wondering who
Can be kissing them now

Down through memory lane I love to look
At the little blue sighs and the little white lies
In my little red book

But there's one boy I had a yen for
Back in nineteen-thirty-three
That's the one I'd go again for
And if he came back to me

Everybody, but him, I'd overlook
I'd have only one flame, there'd be only one name
In my little red book


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2017)