When You're Smiling

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"When You're Smiling"
Mills Music
Songwriter(s)Larry Shay, Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin

"When You're Smiling" is a popular song written by Larry Shay, Mark Fisher and Joe Goodwin. First published in 1928, popular recordings were made by Seger Ellis (1928), Louis Armstrong (1929), and Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys (1930).[1]

The lyrics and music of the song entered the public domain in the United States in 2024.[2]

Other notable recordings

Billie Holiday, here depicted in February 1947, recorded this song on January 6, 1938, with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra.
  • Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers – recorded September 13, 1938,[3] it reached the country charts in 1939. This version was sung by singer pianist Moon Mullican.
  • Louis Armstrong – Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography (1956). In his recording from 1929, Armstrong tried to adapt the "white" style of Guy Lombardo through the inclusion of an expansive saxophone section sound.[4]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-89820-083-0
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  2. ^ "Public Domain Day 2024 | Duke University School of Law". web.law.duke.edu.
  3. ^ "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  4. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4
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