Performance: My Melancholy Baby

Performed by

Performance date

1912

Comments

Although not free from doubt, William Frawley, who played Fred Mertz on the early United States television program "I Love Lucy" is credited with the first public performance of this song at the Mozart Cafe in Denver, Colorado.

Rating

Song info

Song

My Melancholy Baby

Music written by

Ernie Burnett

Lyrics written by

George A. Norton

First performance

My Melancholy Baby by William Frawley (1912)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	My Melancholy Baby	William Frawley	1912 (performance date)
2	My Melancholy Baby	Gene Austin	1928
3	My Melancholy Baby	The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra	1928
4	My Melancholy Baby	Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra	1936
5	My Melancholy Baby	Quintet of Hot Club of France	1939
6	Melancholy Baby	Svend Asmussens Skandia Trio	1940
7	My Melancholy Baby	Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra	1940
8	My Melancholy Baby	Chick Bullock & His Orchestra	1941
9	My Melancholy Baby	Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra	1944
10	My Melancholy Baby	Don Byas	1945
11	My Melancholy Baby	Eddie Condon & His Orchestra	1947
12	My Melancholy Baby	Ted Lewis	1950
13	My Melancholy Baby	Charlie Mariano	1954
14	My Melancholy Baby	Tony Scott	1955
15	Melancholy Baby	Doc Evans	1956
16	Melancholy Baby	Lizzie Miles	1956
17	My Melancholy Baby	Claire Austin	1956
18	My Melancholy Baby	Polly Bergen	August 1957
19	My Melancholy Baby	Ray Charles	1957
20	My Melancholy Baby	Bill Frawley	1957
21	My Melancholy Baby	Della Reese	1957
22	My Melancholy Baby	Matt Dennis	1957
23	My Melancholy Baby	Sonny Stitt	1957
24	My Melancholy Baby	Lee Konitz	1957
25	My Melancholy Baby	The Hi-Lo's	1957
26	My Melancholy Baby	Barney Wilen	1957
27	My Melancholy Baby	Red Nichols and His 5 Pennies	1957
28	My Melancholy Baby	Connie Francis	1958
29	My Melancholy Baby	Coleman Hawkins	1958
30	My Melancholy Baby	Patti Page	1958
31	My Melancholy Baby	Mindy Carson	1958
32	My Melancholy Baby	Booker Pittman	1959
33	My Melancholy Baby	Georgie Auld	1959
34	My Melancholy Baby	Amanda Ambrose	1959
35	My Melancholy Baby	Lou Stein	1959
36	My Melancholy Baby	Steve Allen	1959
37	My Melancholy Baby	Mary Ann McCall	1959
38	My Melancholy Baby	Frank D'Rone with Billy May and His Orchestra	1960
39	My Melancholy Baby	Dinah Shore, Andre Previn	1960
40	My Melancholy Baby	The Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Jimmy Rushing	1960
41	My Melancholy Baby	Ernestine Anderson	1960
42	My Melancholy Baby	The River Boat Five	1960
43	My Melancholy Baby	Urbie Green	1961
44	My Melancholy Baby	Roland Alexander with Marcus Belgrave	1962
45	My Melancholy Baby	Carol Sloane	1962
46	My Melancholy Baby	Karl Denver	May 1963
47	My Melancholy Baby	Vic Damone	1963
48	My Melancholy Baby	Barbra Streisand	February 1964
49	My Melancholy Baby	Dean Martin	August 4, 1964
50	My Melancholy Baby	Vikki Carr	October 1964
51	My Melancholy Baby	Bobby Gordon	1964
52	My Melancholy Baby	Bill Evans, Shelly Manne, Eddie Gomez	1966
53	Melancholy Baby	Jim Kweskin	1967
54	Melancholy Baby	Gary McFarland and Co.	1968
55	My Melancholy Baby	Hank Locklin	July 1969
56	Melancholy Baby	Peter Dean	1972
57	Mi melancolica nena	Quinteto de Hernan Oliva	1972
58	Melancholy Baby	George Probert	1974
59	My Melancholy Baby	Harpers Bizarre	1976
60	My Melancholy Baby	Leon Redbone	1977
61	My Melancholy Baby	Dave McKenna	1977
62	My Melancholy Baby	Bireli Lagrene Ensemble	1980
63	My Melancholy Baby	The Lennie Tristano Quartet	1981
64	My Melancholy Baby	Don Redman and His Orchestra	1983
65	My Melancholy Baby	Michael Weiss Quintet	1986
66	My Melancholy Baby	Rod Mason Hot Five	1987
67	My Melancholy Baby	James Moody	1989
68	Melancholy Baby	Holly Cole Trio	1990
69	My Melancholy Baby	Kenny Davern	1991
70	My Melancholy Baby	Les Paul Trio	1991
71	Melancholy Baby	Maria Muldaur and Friends	1992
72	My Melancholy Baby	Jan Kaspersen Quintet	1993
73	My Melancholy Baby	Miyuki Koga	1993
74	My Melancholy Baby	Randy Sandke's New York All Stars	1993
75	My Melancholy Baby	Barbara Lea, The Ed Polcer All-Stars	1993
76	My Melancholy Baby	Hank Jones-Satoru Oda Great Jazz Quintet	1993
77	My Melancholy Baby	George Masso	1995
78	My Melancholy Baby	Rebecca Kilgore, Dave Frishberg	1997
79	My Melancholy Baby	Derek Bailey	2002
80	My Melancholy Baby	Jaimee Paul featuring Beegie Adair	January 25, 2011