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"

 

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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.

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