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Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee
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Wikipedia article
'"Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee"' is a popular song. The music was written by Henry I. Marshall and the lyrics by Stanley Murphy. The song was published in 1912, and appeared in the 1912 play 'A Winsome Widow'.Boardman, Gerald Martin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=OVdShkzkX74C&pg=PA322#v=onepage&q&f=false American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle], pp. 322-23 (2011 ed.)
The song has since become a standard, recorded by many artists. One of the most popular early recordings was by Ada Jones and Billy Murray who recorded it as a duet on July 8, 1912 for Victor Records (catalog 17152 B).
Doris Day and Russell Arms performed the song in the 1953 film 'By the Light of the Silvery Moon'.
Noteworthy recordings
* Ada Jones and Billy Murray (1912)[https://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/2768/ 1912 Recording], Library of Congress, Retrieved 31 March 2014
* Ada Jones and Walter Van Brunt (1912)
* Gordon MacRae and June Huttonon the album 'Songs from 'By the Light of the Silvery Moon'...' (1953).
* Doris Day on the album 'By the Light of the Silvery Moon' (1953)
References
Category:1912 songs
Category:Malefemale vocal duets
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