My Heart Belongs to Daddy
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For the Desperate Housewives episode, see My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Desperate Housewives episode).
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" is a song written by Cole Porter, for the 1938 musical Leave It to Me!, where it was introduced by Mary Martin.
The song contains one of Porter's most obscure lyrics among its several rhymes for "daddy" - in which the singer talks about her "fine finnan haddie," a Scottish term for smoked haddock.
Referring specifically to the melody, Oscar Levant described it as "one of the most Yiddish tunes ever written" despite the fact that "Cole Porter's genetic background was completely alien to any Jewishness."[1]
[edit] Notable recordings
- Anita O'Day = Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May (1959)
- Marilyn Monroe - Let's Make Love (1960)
- Oscar Peterson - Night Train (1962)
- Julie London - All Through the Night (1965)
- Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Herb Alpert's Ninth (1967)
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Loves Cole (1972)
- Dee Dee Bridgewater - Dear Ella (1997)
- Sophie Milman - "Sophie Milman" (2004)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Oscar Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar, Pocket Books 1969 (reprint of G.P. Putnam 1968), p. 32. ISBN 0-671-77104-3.
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