How Am I to Know

How Am I to Know? is a song written by Dorothy Parker (lyrics) and Jack King (music) in 1929 .

The ballad was sung by Russ Colombo in 1929 in the MGM film Dynamite (director: Cecil B. DeMille ), for the film music William Axt , Herbert Stothart and Arthur Lange were responsible. In the same year the song was also performed by Smith Ballew (with Frankie Trumbauer and Eddie Lang ), by Jack Miller with The New Englanders Orchestra (Velvet Tone), Victor Arden - Phil Ohman & Their Orchestra (Victor 22111) and Sam Wooding 's Chocolate Kiddies added. Through numerous cover versions, How Am I to Know? a popular jazz standard from the 1930s ; Tom Lord lists over 100 cover versions of the title and a. by Ben Selvin , Glenn Miller , Teddy Wilson , Larry Clinton , Chick Webb , Stéphane Grappelli , Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra , Rosemary Clooney and Billie Holiday for Commodore Records 1944. In the post-war period, recordings and a. by Miles Davis , Bill Evans , Sarah Vaughan and Ava Gardner , who sang the song with Johnny Green's orchestra in the 1951 film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman . In later years, Shirley Horn also interpreted the song.

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