Jack Albin & Hotel Pennsylvania Dance Orchestra - Cheerful Little Earful (1930)

"Cheerful Little Earful" is from 1930.

Music is by Harry Warren

Lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Billy Rose.

This song was featured in the musical Sweet and Low, which starred Fanny Brice (Billy Rose's wife) and George Jessel.

The lyrics are complex, the internal rhyme clever: "cheerful little earful."

This is a British performance led by Jack Albin with Bill Coty leading the trio of singers (a "t" is in his name on most of his records though this record label gives the singer's name as "Cody"--so the Cody Trio does the vocal).

Recorded November 1930.

There's a cheerful little earful
Gosh I miss it something fearful
And this cheerful little earful
Is the well known I love you.
Stocks can go down, business slow down
But the milk and honey flow down
With a cheerful little earful
Of the well known i love you.
In every play it's a set phrase
What the public get phrase
But as a pet phrase it'll do do do
Poo-pa-roo-it
Soft and cu-it
Make me happy, you can do it.
With a cheerful little earful
Of the well known I love you.

"Cheerful Little Earful" (1930) Jack Albin and his Hotel Pennsylvania Dance Orchestra.