Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody

"Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"
78rpm record label
Single by Al Jolson
B-side	"Alice, I'm in Wonderland (Since the Day That I First Met You)" (Sterling Trio)
Released	August 1918
Genre	Popular
Length	2:51
Label	Columbia 2560
Songwriter(s)	Jean Schwartz, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young
Al Jolson singles chronology
"Hello Central, Give Me No Man's Land" (1918) "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" (1918) "Tell That to the Marines" (1919)

"Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" is a

Probably the best-known version of the song was by Al Jolson who recorded it on March 13, 1918[1] and whose version reached No. 1 the same year.^[2]

Other recordings

• Al Jolson recorded the song on December 20, 1932, with Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.^[3] Jolson recorded the song again on March 27, 1946, with an orchestra under the direction of Morris Stoloff.^[4]
• Arthur Fields - considered to be a No. 9 hit in 1918.^[5]
• Dean Martin recorded the song on April 28, 1950.^[6]
• Judy Garland included the song in her album Miss Show Business (1955) and her 1960 recording appeared in the compilation album The London Sessions.^[7] The song was also included in her live album Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961).
• gold record
• Cash Box and #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1961.^[10]

• A Plantation Act (1926) - sung by Al Jolson^[11]
• The Show of Shows (1929) - sung by Sid Silvers^[12]
• The Singing Kid (1936) - sung by Al Jolson in the opening medley^[13]
• Rose of Washington Square (1939) - performed by Al Jolson^[14][15]
• The Merry Monahans (1944) - sung by Donald O'Connor^[16]
• Terms of Endearment (1983) - Judy Garland version heard^[17]

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