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Guy Lombardo "BABY" (1928)

Written By bsgs98 on Saturday, Oct 24, 2009 | 01:15 AM

 
"Baby" Music by Jimmy McHugh Words by Dorothy Fields Performed by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians Recorded November 14, 1928, Chicago Personnel: Guy Lombardo, director Lebert Lombardo, trumpet Jim Dillon - trombone Larry Owens - reeds Carmen Lombardo - reeds, vocal Victor Lombardo - baritone saxophone Francis Henry - banjo Bernard Davis - tuba "Baby" was written by the prolific song-writing team of Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields for the Broadway musical "Blackbirds of 1928." Blackbirds was the title of a series of musicals with all-black performers, produced and directed by Lew Leslie, a former vaudevillian. The shows were presented from the late 1920s through the 1930s. The most successful of Leslie's productions , Blackbirds of 1928, starred Adelaide Hall and featured Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, whose dancing was a hit with audiences and critics alike. Other famous songs included "Diga Diga Do" and "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby".