Let Me Call You Sweetheart

"Let Me Call You Sweetheart"
(I'm In Love With You)
Sheet music cover (1910)
Song
Written	1910
Composer(s)	Leo Friedman
Lyricist(s)	Beth Slater Whitson
Language	English

"Let Me Call You Sweetheart" is a popular song, with music by Leo Friedman and lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson. The song was published in 1910 and first recorded by The Peerless Quartet. A 1924 recording identifies a Spanish title, "Déjame llamarte mía".

The complete lyrics:

The girl who modeled for the original sheet music is alleged to have been Virginia Rappe, the subject of the 1921 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal.

Among the thousands of mainstream appearances of this pop standard are a British advert for mobile phone operator and internet service provider Orange SA, involving a wind-up toy of two figures hugging. The version used in this advert was sung by Oliver Hardy from the 1938 film Swiss Miss, made with his comic partner Stan Laurel. This song was also sung in an episode of Our Gang (the Little Rascals) by Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer. Victor Moore sings the song to Beulah Bondi in Make Way for Tomorrow (1937).

It was performed by George Hearn in Barney's Great Adventure, instrumentally by a band in The Greatest Game Ever Played and by Megan Follows in Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story.