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My Baby Just Cares for Me is a jazz standard written by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Gus Kahn. Written for the film version of the musical comedy Whoopee! (1930), the song became a signature tune for Eddie Cantor who sang it in the movie. A stylized version of the song by Nina Simone, recorded in1957, was a top 10 hit after it was used in a 1987 commercial for Chanel No 5, and resulted in a renaissance for Simone. Over the years, it has been recorded by many stars, from Frank Sinatra to Cyndi Lauper, Marlene Dietrich to Michael Buble.Whoopee!
is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, and Eleanor Hunt. It was photographed in two-color Technicolor. Its plot closely follows the 1928 stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld.
The film was produced by Ziegfeld and Samuel Goldwyn, and made a movie star of Eddie Cantor, already one of the leading stars of Broadway and a popular recording artist. Betty Grable,… Read More