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The song was sung in It Happened One Night. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.214.81.129 (talk) 00:23, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The song is sung twice by Dick Powell in the movie Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934).

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I upgraded this to start. It could use a few more references. Pustelnik (talk) 13:31, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to liner notes on the CD 'Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock: The Great American Bum' (and in the music file's properties), McClintock recorded this song on 16 Mar 1928; if true, this calls into question the statement "Comedian Walter O'Keefe was the first to record the song, in 1934."

See http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/drinkingsongs/mp3s/1920s/1920s-the-great-american-bum--harry-mcclintock-(CD)/index.htm .

Is this sufficient documentation to change this information? Blbachman (talk) 18:37, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Different melodies

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Did anyone else hear this sung to a different melody than the one that was most familiar to the public? Here's the melody that's most familiar as heard in the Popeye cartoon of the same name: [1], and here's the other less familiar melody heard in the Screen Song cartoon The Circus Comes to Clown: [2]. - Jasonbres (talk) 15:05, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Music Hall or Circus Scene in Black and White Movie either Hitchcock or Lubitch?

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I remember hearing a very full throated nearly operatic rendition of "The daring young man on the flying trapeze" in a B/W film of the 30's. Trying to verfy in what movie it was performed. I thought it was a Hitchcock film like "Sabotage" but could not find a print which included it. Perhaps it was edited out for TV viewing?