Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish

"(The) Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish" was a novelty song written by Harry Warren, Al Dubin, and Johnny Mercer. In an Orientalist jazz musical style and with a Turquesque confusion of Islamic, Indian, and Western cultural motifs, it recounts the amorous adventures of the eponymous unfaithful sweetheart of an oblivious Whirling Dervish amid a number of musicians who compete for her affections.

"Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish"
Song
Released1938
GenreNovelty Song
LabelWarner Bros. Inc
Songwriter(s)Composer: Harry Warren
Lyricist: Al Dubin & Johnny Mercer

The song first appeared in the 1938 Warner Brothers film Garden of the Moon, where it was performed by John Payne, Johnnie Davis, Jerry Colonna, and Joe Venuti and His Swing Cats, once as a short instrumental and once as a lengthy vocal version in an elaborate Busby Berkeley production number featuring a turban-wearing band and the heavily-mustached Colonna as a veiled "girl friend."

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