This song has lived on over the years as a much-recorded ballad and not everyone remembers it as one of the hit tunes in the original "42nd Street" movie. In fact, it was the only song which Bebe Daniels sang in that picture, for she played the actress whose broken ankle forced her to be replaced at the eleventh hour by wide-eyed Ruby Keeler...and a star was born!
Harry said that the song came from a casual remark overheard by Al Dubin on the Warner lot. Leo Forbstein's secretary (Leo was the head of music production at Warners) was going out with a certain fellow at the time. Al, who liked to kid around with the girls, asked her why. Her response was "Oh, I don't know, I guess he's getting to be a habit with me."
Songwriters: Harry Warren, Al Dubin
Movie(s)
Forty-Second
Street (Warner Bros. Pictures : 1933)
Performer(s): Bebe Daniels
Lullaby Of Broadway (Warner Bros. Pictures : 1951)
Performer(s): Doris Day
US Hit Record(s)
Bing Crosby,
Guy Lombardo - (Brunswick Records : 1933) - (# 1 Pop 1933)
Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - (Victor Records : 1933) - (# 15 Pop 1933)
Other Recording(s)
Frank Sinatra
- (Capitol Records, Inc.)
Petula Clark - (Pye UK Records)
Mel Torme - (Liberty Records)
June Hutton And The Boys Next Door - (Capitol Records, Inc.)
Tony Martin, Dinah Shore - (RCA Records)
Oscar Peterson - (Verve Records)
Jackie Gleason And His Orchestra - (Capitol Records, Inc.)
Lawrence Welk And His Orchestra - (Ranwood Records)
The Harry Edison Sextet
Doris Day - (Columbia Records)
Maureen McGovern - (Columbia Records)
Anson Weeks - (Fantasy Records)
Elaine Stritch - (DRG Records)
Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache - (Concord Jazz, Inc.)
The King's Singers - (Moss Music Group)
