NOBODY'S SWEETHEART
From the Broadway Review "The Passing Show" (1923)
(Music: Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel / Lyrics: Ernie Erdman & Gus Kahn)
Ted Lewis & His Band (Broadway Production) - 1923
Isham Jones & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1924
Billy Murray & Aileen Stanley - 1924
Ben Selvin & His Moulin Rouge Orch. (Instr.) - 1924
Charles Dornberger & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1924
Howe's Peanut Band - 1924
McKenzie & Condon's Chicagoans (Instr.) - 1927
Guy Lombardo's Louisiana Rhythm Kings (vocal: Lebert Lombardo) - 1928
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies (vocal: Eddie Condon) - 1928
McKinney's Cotton Pickers (Scat vocal: George Thomas) - 1928
Charles Pierce's Orch. (Instr.) - 1928
Vic Meyers & His Orch. - 1928
Marion Harris - 1929
Fred Elizalde & His Music (Instr.) - 1929
Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (vocal: Jack Teagarden) - 1930
Adrian Schubert & His Orch. (vocal: Scrappy Lambert) - 1930
Eubie Blake & His Orch. - 1931
Cab Calloway & His Orch. (vocal: Cab Calloway) - 1931
Gus Arnheim's Orch. (vocal: Harry Barris & The Three Ambassadors) - 1931
Billy Coton & His Band (vocal: Cyril Grantham) - 1931
Roy Fox & His Orch. (vocal: Al Bowlly) - 1931
Sydney Baynes & His Dance Band (vocal: The Carlyle Cousins) - 1931
The Mills Brothers - 1931
Louis Armstrong '32 '33
Georgia Washboard Stompers (Instr.) - 1933
Harry Roy & His Orch. - 1933
Benny Goodman Trio (Instr.) - 1936
The Spirits Of Rhythm - 1933
Brian Lawrence Quartet (vocal: Brian Lawrence) - 1935
Alice Babs Nilsson - 1939
Connee Boswell - 1940
Kay Starr - 1950
Doris Day (feat. in the film "I'll See You In My Dreams") - 1951
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Dixieland Band - 1952
Johnnie Ray - 1954
Jaye P. Morgan - 1961
Also recorded by:
The Original Hoosier Hotshots; Red Sam; Firehouse Five Plus Two;
The Whippoorwills; Nat Gonella; Leon Redbone; Louis Armstrong;
Oscar Aleman; Chet Atkins ........ and many others.
As recorded by Connee Boswell, Aug 22nd 1940 New York:
You're nobody's sweetheart now,
'Cause nobody wants you, somehow;
Fancy hose, silken gown,
You'd be out of place in your own home town!
When you walk down that old avenue,
I just can't believe that it's you!
Painted lips, painted eyes,
Wearin' a bird of paradise!
Well it all seems wrong somehow,
But you're nobody's sweetheart now.
You're nobody's sweetheart now,
'Cause nobody wants you, somehow;
Fancy hose, silken gown,
You'd be out of place in your own home town!
When you walk down that old avenue, oh-ho,
I just can't believe that it's you!
Painted lips, painted eyes,
Wearin' a bird of paradise!
Well it all seems wrong somehow,
But you're nobody's sweetheart now.
(Contributed by Peter Akers - January 2009)
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As recorded by MARION HARRIS, 10th December 1929:
You're nobody's sweetheart now
They don't baby you, somehow
Fancy hose, silken gown
You'd be out of place in your own home town
When you walk down the avenue
I just can't believe that it's you
Painted lips, painted eyes
Wearing a bird of paradise
It all seems wrong somehow
That you're nobody's sweetheart now
You were everybody's sweetheart
Not so long ago
And in your hometown, each boy around
Longed to be your beau
But things are different today
I'm mighty sorry to say
You're nobody's sweetheart now
They don't baby you, somehow
Fancy hose, silken gown
You'd be out of place in your own home town
When you walk down the avenue
I just can't believe that it's you
Painted lips, painted eyes
Wearing a bird of paradise
It all seems wrong somehow
That you're nobody's sweetheart now
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2017)
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Alternate middle verse as recorded by JACK TEAGARDEN:
You turned me down and then you went away
There's nothing left for me to do, but play
Forget you done me wrong
I'll play a tune or sing a song
You're nobody's etc.......
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - June 2017)
