Song: Makin' Whoopee!

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Music written by

Walter Donaldson

Lyrics written by

Gus Kahn

Language

English

Comments

From the Broadway musical Whoopee!.

Originals

First performance

Makin' Whoopee! by Eddie Cantor in stage production Whoopee! (December 4, 1928)

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Makin' Whoopee!	Eddie Cantor	December 4, 1928 (performance date)
2	Makin' Whoopee!	King Cole Trio	1947
3	Makin' Whoopee!	Doris Day, Danny Thomas	1951
4	Makin' Whoopee	Ella Fitzgerald	1954
5	Makin' Whoopee	The Kenny Baker Jazz Unit	1955
6	Makin' Whoopee	Les Elgart and His Orchestra	1955
7	Makin' Whoopee	Frank Sinatra	March 1956
8	Makin' Whoopee	Lou Levy	1956
9	Makin' Whoopee	Dinah Washington, Quincy Jones and His Orchestra	1956
10	Makin' Whoopee!	Woody Herman	1957
11	Makin' Whoopee	Ann Gilbert	1957
12	Makin' Whoopee!	Bobby Troup	1957
13	Makin' Whoopee	Barney Kessel	1957
14	Makin' Whoopee	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	1957
15	Makin' Whoopee	Earl Hines	1958
16	Makin' Whoopee	Pat Moran	1958
17	Makin' Whoopee	Jeannie Hoffman	1958
18	Makin' Whoopee!	Julie London, Music Arranged and Conducted by Andre Previn	1959
19	Makin' Whoopee	Yank Lawson and the Yankee Clippers	1959
20	Makin' Whoopee	Nelson Riddle	1959
21	Makin' Whoopee	Charlie Shavers	1960
22	Makin' Whoopee!	The Incredible Jimmy Smith	1960
23	Makin' Whoopee	Rosemary Clooney	1960
24	Makin' Whoopee!	Billy Taylor	1960
25	Makin' Whoopee	Buddy Rich and His Buddies	1961
26	Makin' Whoopee	Roland Kirk	1961
27	Makin' Whoopee!	Les Paul & Mary Ford	1962
28	Makin' Whoopee!	Etta Jones	1962
29	Makin' Whoopee	Paul Petersen	1962
30	Making Whoopie	Chris Barber Band	1964
31	Makin' Whoopee	Eddie Higgins Trio	1965
32	Makin' Whoopee	Esther Phillips	1965
33	Makin' Whoopee!	Nancy Wilson	January 1966
34	Makin' Whoopee	Toots Thielemans	1966
35	Makin' Whoopee	Peggy Lee	1967
36	Makin' Whoopee	Freddie McCoy	1968
37	Makin' Whoopee	The Moments with Sammy Lowe	1971
38	Makin' Whoopee!	Harry Nilsson	July 1973
39	Makin' Whoopee!	Barney Kessel - Herb Ellis	1976
40	Makin' Whoopee	The Halcyon Dance Orchestra, Directed by Steve Lane	1976
41	Makin' Whoopee	Ove Linds Sextett	1978
42	Makin' Whoopee	André Persiany	1978
43	Makin' Whoopee	Spencer Clark and His Bass Sax	1979
44	Makin' Whoopee!	Kenny Burrell	1981
45	Makin' Whoopee!	Chris Barber	1982
46	Makin' Whoopee	Sylvia Vrethammar, Georgie Fame	1983
47	Makin' Whoopee!	Bud Shank/Shorty Rogers	1985
48	Makin' Whoopee!	Dr. John	1989
49	Makin' Whoopee	Branford Marsalis	1989
50	Makin' Whoopee	The Ken Peplowski Quintet	1990
51	Making Whoopee	Dave Van Ronk	1990
52	Makin' Whoopee	Clémentine	1991
53	Makin' Whoopee!	Ken Whiteley, Jackie Washington & Mose Scarlett	1992
54	Makin' Whoopee	Madeline Bell & The Swingmates	1993
55	Makin' Whoopee!	Ray Brown Trio	1993
56	Makin' Whoopee	Toni Tennille with the Matt Catingub Big Band	1994
57	Makin' Whoopee	Shirley Bassey	1995
58	Makin' Whoopee	Paul Vornhagen	1995
59	Makin' Whoopee	Frank Christian	1996
60	Makin' Whoopee	King/Bluiett Trio	1997
61	Makin' Whoopee	The Lisa Addeo Trio	1997
62	Makin' Whoopee	Ray Sherman	November 3, 1998
63	Makin' Whoopee	Leroy Vinnegar with Jessica Williams & Mel Brown	April 11, 2000
64	Makin' Whoopee	Tom Wopat	October 2000
65	Makin' Whoopee	Amanda Palmer	January 12, 2001
66	Makin' Whoopee	James Naughton	2002
67	Makin' Whoopee	Stacey Kent	October 2003
68	Makin' Whoopee	Cyndi Lauper	November 18, 2003
69	Makin' Whoopee	Rod Stewart & Elton John	October 18, 2005
70	Makin' Whoopee	Nikki Loney	2005
71	Makin Whoopee	Steve Abbruzzi	2006
72	Makin' Whoopee	Joey McIntyre	2006
73	Makin' Whoopee	Emile Pandolfi	2010
74	Makin' Whoopee	Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis featuring Norah Jones	2011

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