Dinah

Harry Akst wrote the music and Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young the words in 1925. Ethel Waters introduced it at the Plantation Club on Broadway, and it was then added to the show Kid Boots. Waters, the Revelers, Cliff Edwards and Fletcher Henderson all had hit records of it in 1926.

Bing Crosby recorded it with the Mills Brothers in December 1931, and Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli cut it with the Quintette du Hot Club de France in Paris in 1934. Fanny Rose Shore sang it so often that disc jockey Martin Block called her Dinah Shore, and the name stuck.