I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is a pop song written by Joe E. Howard , Harald Orlob (music), Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams (lyrics) and released in 1909.

The songwriting team Howard, Orlob, Hough and Adams wrote the song for the musical The Prince of Tonight .

The musicians who successfully covered the song from 1909 included Billy Murray (# 4, Victor 16476), Manuel Romain (# 6, Edison Standard Record 10287) and Perry Como & Ted Weems (Decca 25078) were again with the song in 1947 in the US charts (# 2), also in the same year Ray Noble and His Orchestra (# 11), The Dinning Sisters (# 12). In 1962 Emile Ford and the Checkmates came to # 43 on the British charts, Bobby Darin in 1964 to # 93 on the Billboard Hot 100. Also Ray Charles (Swing Time, 1950), Danny Kaye , Harry Nilsson and Dean Martincovered the song. The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 73 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Dick Robertson , Van Alexander , Frank Froeba , Billy Butterfield , Art Van Damme , Randy Brooks , Charlie Ventura , Eddie Brunner , Fred Clement , George Girard , Lyle Smith , Moe Wechsler , Max Morath , Joe Williams , George Lewis , Max Collie , Sammy Rimington and Arne Bue Jensen .

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 359206085

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 45
  2. a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  3. DECCA BM 03812