Honey (I'm in Love with You)
Honey (I'm in Love with You) is a pop song written by Seymour Simons , Haven Gillespie and Richard A. Whiting and released in 1928.
background
The song by the songwriting team Seymour, Gillespie and Whiting became popular primarily through the recording of Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees (Victor 21869), who had a number one hit in the United States with the song. The song, written as a moderate foxtrot in F major in the form ABA'C , has a 16-bar refrain, mainly consisting of dotted quarter and eighth notes.
First recordings and later cover versions
Musicians who covered the song from 1927 onwards included Ben Selvin (Columbia, with Larry Murphy, vocals), the Orquesta Los Clevelanders (Brunswick 40802), Elsie Carlisle (Dominion 215), Arthur Godfrey (Columbia C-1996), Hal Kemp (OKeh), Irving Mills (Perfect), Smith Ballew (OKeh), the California Rambers (Edison, with Ed Kirkeby , vocals), in Berlin Ben Berlin , in London Cecil and Leslie Norman and Philip Lewis. The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 71 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Claude Hopkins , Andy Kirk / Pha Terrell , Nat King Cole , Charlie and His Orchestra , Georgie Auld , Dinah Shore , Kay Starr / Ben Pollack , The Ravens , Mary Osborne , Red Nichols , Sarah Vaughan , Charlie Ventura , Kai Winding and Margaret Whiting . Honey was also used in the film Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945, directed by Richard Thorpe ).