Who? (Song)
Who? (also Who (Stole My Heart Away)? ) is a song that Jerome Kern (music), Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II (text) wrote and published in 1925.
History of origin
Kern, Harbach and Hammerstein wrote the song for the musical Sunny , with Marilyn Miller , Jack Donahue , Clifton Webb , Cliff Edwards , accompanied by George Olsen and His Orchestra. The song Who? was the biggest hit of the musical. The operetta-like song, written as a duet in D major or F major , is in the form of ABCD and appears very well composed. The chorus in D major begins with a nine-beat note and is repeated five times.
First recordings
George Olsen had the greatest success with his recording for Victor Records ; the '78 with the vocal trio Fran Frey, Bob Rice and Jack Fulton sold over a million copies in the United States. The first musicians to record the song from 1925 were Lou Gold & His Orchestra , Fletcher Henderson , Ben Selvin , Vincent Lopez , in Berlin Bernard Etté and Marek Weber with his artist ensemble from the Hotel Adlon .
Later cover versions
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 127 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Sidney Bechet , Benny Goodman (orchestra and trio), Tommy Dorsey , Gene Krupa and His Orchestra , Josephine Baker , Red Nichols , Kurt Hohenberger , Judy Garland , Pearl Bailey , Dinah Shore , Jean Goldkette , Raymond Scott , André Previn , Erroll Garner , Paul Weston , Guy Lombardo , Sammy Kaye and Hal Mooney . The song was also used in several films, initially sung by Marilyn Miller and Lawrence Gray, in the film version of the musical Sunny (1930); Judy Garland and Lucille Bremer sang the song in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer biopic Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) about the life of Jerome Kern.