"Yes Sir, That's My Baby" is a U.S.

United States

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 popular

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 song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

 from 1925.

The music was written by Walter Donaldson

Walter Donaldson

Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...

 and the lyrics by Gus Kahn

Gus Kahn

Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...

. It was a hit for Ace Brigode

Ace Brigode

Athos C. Brigode was a United States dance band leader who enjoyed his greatest popularity in the 1920s.Ace Brigode was born in Illinois...

 in 1925 and for Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter...

 in 1930. It was later a hit for Rick Nelson in the 1950s and Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

 in the 1960s. The song has become a standard that has been recorded by over 100 artists in genres from jazz to rock, marimba and country.

Opening line: "Yes sir, that's my ba - by, no sir, don't mean may - be, Yes sir, that's my ba - by now...."

According to one source, the song was written when Donaldson & Kahn were visiting Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter...

. Cantor's daughter Marjorie brought out one of her favorite toys, a walking mechanical pig. She wound it up and it started walking in rhythm while 2 notes kept coming from the little creature. Kahn was inspired and started working lyrics to these notes in rhythm with the pig, coming up with the title and opening line of the chorus in short order.

A Yiddish version entitled "Yes Sir, Iz May Kalleh" (Yes Sir, That's My Bride) was recorded by Peisachke Burstein. In German the song was titled "Küss' mich, Schnucki-Putzi."

The song was also sung by Jason Robards

Jason Robards

Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was an American actor on stage, and in film and television, and a winner of the Tony Award , two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award...

 in the 1965 feature film A Thousand Clowns

A Thousand Clowns

A Thousand Clowns is a 1962 American play by Herb Gardner, which tells the story of a young boy who lives with his eccentric uncle Murray, who is forced to conform to society in order to keep custody of the boy. A 1965 movie version was adapted from the play by Gardner and directed by Fred Coe.-...

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Also remaked by Czech singer Verona

Verona (Czech group)

Verona is Czech music group with two members. They started in 2001. They play and make pop and dance musicTheir first album called "Náhodou" was released in 2002. The second single from this album became immediately hit song. Later there were more albums -Singles:-External links:*...

 in the 2011 with completely new lyrics and name "Hey Boy" and became and instant holidays hit in local radios.

External links

• "Yes Sir, That's My Baby", Lee Morse
  Lee Morse
  Lee Morse was an US jazz and blues singer and songwriter whose most popular years were in the 1920s and early 1930s, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954...
  
  (Pathe 10949, 1925)—Internet Archive.