Everybody Loves My Baby

"Everybody Loves My Baby", also known as "Everybody Loves My Baby, but My Baby Don't Love Nobody but Me", is a popular and jazz standard song composed by Spencer Williams in 1924. Lyrics were written by Jack Palmer.

One important early recording was a young Louis Armstrong's, with Clarence Williams' Blue Five on November 6, 1924, New York, NY. Released as a single: "Everybody Loves My Baby (but My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me)" (Palmer, Jack; Williams, Spencer) [master S-72-959-B] – Okeh 8181. Featuring: Williams, Clarence (Piano, Director); Taylor, Eva (Vocal); Armstrong, Louis (Cornet); Thompson, Aaron (Trombone); Bailey, Buster (Soprano Saxophone); and Christian, Buddy (Banjo).

The opening phrases of the song's lyrics are featured in a fine early Langston Hughes poem, "The Cat and the Saxophone, 2am" (1926), about a couple's interactions at a jazz club in the 1920s.

The song remained popular for decades and continues to be performed regularly in the 21st century.

The Boswell Sisters recorded a version of this song in 1932.

Notable recordings include a top-ten country hit by the Hoosier Hot Shots (1941), and a "now-sound" instrumental by King Richard's Fluegel Knights that peaked at Easy Listening position #11 in 1967. That recording was also used as the theme for the syndicated television program Celebrity Bowling.

Glenn Miller and the AAFTC Orchestra released the song as V-Disc 223A in July 1944.

Doris Day recorded a short version for the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me and The Temperance Seven recorded a version for the 1962 film It's Trad, Dad!.

Al Hirt released a version on his 1964 album, Beauty and the Beard.

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