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Who (song)

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"Who?" (1925) is a popular song (sometimes written as "Who (stole my heart away)?") written for the Broadway musical Sunny by Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. The song was featured in the film version of Sunny (1930) starring Marilyn Miller.

George Olsen and His Orchestra scored a major hit with their 1925 recording of the song. Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with vocalist Jack Leonard had a hit with it in the late 1930s; their arrangement was patterned after Dorsey's 1937 recording of "Marie". Judy Garland sang the song in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer biopic Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), loosely based on the life of Jerome Kern.

Partial list of recording artists

  • Jerome Kern
  • The Ipana Troubadours
  • Sidney Bechet
  • The Benny Goodman Orchestra
  • The Benny Goodman Trio
  • The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
  • Gene Krupa and His Orchestra
  • Josephine Baker
  • Red Nichols and The Five Pennies (a loose Jazz interpretation)
  • Kurt Hohenberger Soloists Orchestra
  • Carroll Gibbons and the Boyfriends
  • The London Cast of Sunny (musical) (1926)
  • Harry Archer & His Orchestra
  • Count Basie Sidemen
  • Judy Garland
  • Pearl Bailey
  • Dinah Shore
  • Bernard Berkhout '5'
  • Binnie Hale
  • Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra
  • Raymond Scott Quintet
  • André Previn
  • Billy Tennant & His Band
  • Eric Rogers and his Orchestra
  • Erroll Garner
  • George Olsen & His Orchestra
  • Ace Harris
  • Paul Weston & His Orchestra
  • Guy Lombardo
  • Sammy Kaye
  • Roy Fox And His Orchestra
  • Jack Buchanan
  • Bert Wollau & sein Quartett
  • Hal Mooney
  • Appears on The Muppet Show 2 album as sung by "Zelda Rose and Her Singing Owl" (the latter of whom naturally only sings the "who" part)
  • This list was found by searching amazon.com's mp3 downloads for "Who", and are found by setting the 'sort by' drop down box to Song Title: Z to A, then going to pages 25–27. The version by Pearl Bailey is found by using Advanced Search and entering "Pearl Bailey" in the Artist Name box, and "Who" in the Song Title box.

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    Who? (song) Wikipedia