I Found a Million Dollar Baby ( At a Five and Ten Cent Store )

I Found a Million Dollar Baby
( In a Five and Ten Cent Store )

~ featured in the 1941 Warner Brothers film "Million Dollar Baby"

Music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Billy Rose and Mort Dixon

With Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra

Recorded at Manhattan Center, New York City

Recording Time 2:22

Recorded February 01, 1951 ~ Matrix No. E1VB-17 Take 1 - 1A

Single release: RCA-78/45RPM-20/47-4035-B

Single Flip Side: "That Old Gang of Mine"

Album issue: Camden-LP12 "Door of Dreams" CASX-2482(e) ELECTRONIC STEREO 1971

Album reissue: Camden-LP12 "Perry Como Sings" CDS-1091 UK ELECTRONIC STEREO 1971

Album issue: Camden-LP12 "Perry Como Box Set Vol. 2" CDS-1091 / CDS-1101 / CDS-1137 Circa 1980s

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Notes: ~ introduced by Ted Healy, Fanny Brice, Phil Baker, and Lew Brice in Billy Rose's 1931 Stage musical "Crazy Quilt." Bing Crosby recorded it twice, once for Brunswick and once for Decca. It was featured in the 1941 Warner Brothers dramatic film "Million Dollar Baby," starring Ronald Reagan, and sung by Barbara Streisand, as Fanny Brice, and James Caan as Billy Rose, in the 1975 Musical Biography "Funny Lady," a sequel to Funny Girl from 1968.