Girl of My Dreams
Girl of My Dreams (I Love You) is a song that Sunny Clapp wrote and released in 1927.
background
The moderate waltz Girl of My Dreams was first introduced by Blue Steele and his orchestra. The song, written in C major in the form A , became popular in the United States in the version by Gene Austin for Victor Records . The melody of the chorus begins with an eighth note - triplet which rises a chromatic scale. There is also more chromatics in the main theme.
First recordings and later cover versions
The musicians who covered the song from 1928 onwards included The Vagabonds (a Gennett studio band led by Tommy Dorsey ), Jimmy McHugh Bostonians (Harmony, with Sunny Clapp, Fud Livingston , Jack Pettis ), Frank Ferera (Parlophone A4540), Adrian Schubert (Imperial 20121), Henry King and his Hotel Pierre Orchestra (Victor 24457) and Eddie Dunstedter (organ, Brunswick 3928). The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 208 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Billy Kyle , Casa Loma Orchestra , Vic Lewis , Bob Crosby , Harry James , Cab Calloway , Frank Froeba , Jerry Jerome , Ike Quebec , Charlie Ventura , Dizzy Gillespie / Stan Getz , Erroll Garner , Marty Napoleon , Louis Armstrong ( Jazz on a Summer's Day ). Girl of My Dreams was also covered by Perry Como .