She Didn't Say Yes
"She Didn't Say Yes" is a 1931 song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Otto Harbach.
It was written for the show The Cat and the Fiddle (1931).
Notable recordings
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook (1963)
- Margaret Whiting - Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook (1960)
- Harold Macmillan - In the early 1960s, the British prime minister quoted several lines from the song in a speech, mocking the supposed indecisiveness of a political opponent. The satirical magazine Private Eye took a recording of his words, put a backing track to it, and published it as a disc.[1]
Notes
- ↑ "Richard Ingrams", Desert Island Discs, BBC, accessed 5 February 2012.
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