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Thank Heaven for Little Girls
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Wikipedia article
'"Thank Heaven for Little Girls"' is a 1957 song written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and associated with Maurice Chevalier, its original performer. It opened and closed the 1958 film 'Gigi'. Alfred Drake performed the song in the 1973 Broadway stage production of 'Gigi', and in the 2015 revival, it was sung as a duet between Victoria Clark and Dee Hoty.
The Chevalier version is often regarded as the definitive version of the song; he recorded it in 1958. In 2004, it finished at #56 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
Bing Crosby recorded the song for his radio show in 1960 and it subsequently was released on the CD 'Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around...' (2014). It has been performed by Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Grard Depardieu, Merle Haggard, Hugh Hefner, The King Brothers, Ed McMahon, and in his faux French accent, Peter Sellers. In the 'Happy Days' season 5 episode "Be My Valentine" (February 14, 1978), a then-18-year-old Scott Baio sang it as part of a series of musical numbers commemorating Valentine's Day. In the 1997 film 'Wag the Dog', the song performed by Chevalier is used as backdrop for an election campaign ad.
In the mid-1990s, a contemporary take on the song was recorded by the Seattle-based alternative band Ruby for a Mountain Dew commercial in the United States. This recording was later used by PepsiCo for its Pepsi Max brand in the United Kingdom.
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Category:Songs from musicals
Category:Songs about children
Category:1957 songs
Category:Songs written for films
Category:1950s jazz standards
Category:Maurice Chevalier songs
Category:Songs with music by Frederick Loewe
Category:Songs with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
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