Simple Melody - Bing Crosby

Play a Simple Melody
Written by: Irving Berlin

Play a Simple Melody Lyrics

Won't you play some simple melody
Like my mother sang to me?
One with a good old fashioned harmony
Play some simple melody

Musical demon, set your honey a-dreamin'
Won't you play me some rag?
Just change that classical nag to some sweet beautiful drag
If you will play from a copy of a tune that is choppy
You'll get all my applause
And that is simply because I wanna listen to rag

Play from a copy of a tune that is choppy
You'll get all of my applause because
I wanna rag it, ragtime melody

Play a Simple Melody Singers

1. Sallie Fisher and Charles King (First live performance on December 8, 1914) 2. Walter Van Brunt & Mary Carson 1915 (First release) 3. Messrs. Hayes and Croft 1915 4. Edna Brown - Billy Murray July 1916 5. Jo Stafford and The Starlighters with Paul Weston's Dixie Eight May 1950 6. Dinah Shore Orch. & Quartet under the direction of Harry Zimmerman May 1950
7. Bing Crosby and Gary Crosby (billboard hit 1950) July 1950

8. Georgia Gibbs and Bob Crosby and His Orchestra 1950 9. Gustav Winckler - Putte Wickmans orkester 1951 10. Ethel Merman and Dan Dailey - The 20th Century-Fox Symphony Orchestra and Chorus 1954 11. Jonathan and Darlene Edwards (Jo Stafford, Paul Weston) 1962 12. Horst Jankowski featuring Die Jankowski Singers 1965 13. Jeannie Carson 1968 14. Tony Randall and Jack Klugman with Roland Shaw and The London Festival Orchestra and Chorus 1973 15. Max Bygraves, orchestra arranged & conducted by Frank Barber 1974 16. Tommy Burton & The Sporting House Club 1974 17. Leif Kronlunds storband 1980 18. Johnny Howard Singers & Orchestra 1980 19. Cheryl Stephens 1983 20. Jean Stapleton and Fozzie Bear May 20, 2008 21. The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Rick Benjamin, Director December 9, 2015 22. Julian Yeo July 2016.


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