Recorded Versions
The song was recorded no less than eight times in the first year of its release by artists including
- The Original Indiana Five on April 1 in Long Island City, New York for Olympic Records;
- Ladd's Black Aces on April 9 in New York, New York for Gennett and Starr;
- The Dixie Daisies again in April in New York for the Cameo label,;
- on April 24 by Arthur Gibbs and His Gang in New York for the Victor label;
- released April 30 by Margaret Young for the Brunswick label;
- in May, also in New York, by Guyon’s Paradise Orchestra for Okeh;
- in June by Billy Arnold’s Novelty Jazz Band, recording in Paris for Pathé;
- and also by the Georgia Jazz Band recording in New York for the New York Federal label (recording month in 1923 unknown).
The recording by Arthur Gibbs and His Gang took the song to top ten status on the pop charts.
Other notable recordings by Pee Wee Hunt, Sophie Tucker, Johnny Mercer on the Capitol Records label, Ted Heath, and Peggy Lee have kept the song in the public consciousness.
Peggy Lee became particularly associated with the song through her single, recorded in New York for Capitol Records in 1952, which was released again in 1960 on her album All Aglow Again!. Lee continued to sing the song in her live appearances over the years and included it in her 1983 Broadway show Peg: A Musical Autobiography.
Cabaret artists Julie Wilson and Joyce Moody have included the song in their nightclub acts and have also made memorable recordings of it: Wilson in 1995 in Julie Wilson (Live From the Russian Tea Room) and Moody in 2007 in her tribute (with Earl Wentz) to Milton Ager, Vampin’ Lady, which takes its name from the song.
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