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Exactly Like You

Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields

Style
Jazz
Tradition
Jazz standard
Form
AABA, 32 bars
Key
C
Level
3
Played on
Voice

In the public domain. Source

History

Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields wrote it for Lew Leslie's International Revue (1930), where Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence sang it. The same show had their "On the Sunny Side of the Street." Ruth Etting, Louis Armstrong and the Casa Loma Orchestra all recorded it in 1930.

Django Reinhardt recorded it in 1937, and Don Byas cut it with Thelonious Monk in 1941.