It is also featured in the Warner Brothers’ early two-color film version of the musical in 1930, starring Joe E. Brown when it was sung by Georges Carpentier and chorus.

[4] As with most DeSylva, Brown and Henderson hit songs the tune is melodically infectious with unexpected lyric couplets that are still easy to recall.

[5] It is also notable for a simple but ingenious bridge (middle eight bars) of continually ascending steps with closely syncopated lyrics.

It was later covered by Les Brown, The King Cole Trio, Chris Connor (with the Jerry Wald Orchestra), the Ray Conniff Singers, and many others.

In addition, it is interpolated with other D-B-H hits in the revised 1993 version of the songwriters’ most popular musical Good News when Coach Bill Johnson awkwardly reveals his romantic interest in a colleague (“I’m not a poet - how well I know it”, 1st line of song's 1993 intro).