Lee Morse - Yes Sir That's My Baby 1925 Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn (Perfect Records)
Perfect (11580) Recorded May, 1925. Released: Aug 1925. Miss Lee Morse And Her Blue Grass Boys.
"Yes Sir, That's My Baby" is a popular U.S. song from 1925.
The music was written by Walter Donaldson and the lyrics by Gus Kahn.
According to one source, the song was written when Donaldson and Kahn were visiting Eddie Cantor. Cantor's daughter Marjorie brought out one of her favorite toys, a walking mechanical pig. She wound it up and it started walking in rhythm while two notes kept coming from the little creature. Kahn was inspired and started working lyrics to these notes in rhythm with the pig, coming up with the title and opening line of the chorus in short order.
The Perfect label was a US label. It was introduced in June 1922 by the financially strained Pathé Frères Phonograph Co. to compete with other budget-priced labels of the day and boost record sales.
Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954.
Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female singers of the 1920s. She was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway stage. Her life and career, however, were marred by alcoholism. Morse's' group the Blue Grass Boys had no relation neither to their later namesake of Bill Monroe nor bluegrass music.
Although Morse's Broadway prospects had dimmed by the 1930s, she could still be seen in a number of musical film shorts, including A Million Me's (Paramount, April 25, 1930), The Music Racket (Vitaphone, June 30, 1930), and Song Service (Paramount, October 24, 1930).
Morse was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon.
Morse died on December 16, 1954 in Rochester while visiting a neighbor. She was 57 years old. She is interred at the Riverside Cemetery.
Lyrics:
Who's that coming down the street?
Who's that looking so petite?
Who's that coming down to meet me here?
Who's that you know who I mean,
Sweetest "who" you've ever seen,
I could tell him miles away from here.
Yes sir, that's my baby
No sir, I don't mean maybe
Yes sir, that's my baby now
Yes, ma'am, we've decided
No ma'am, we won't hide it
Yes, ma'am, you're invited now
Oh by the way, oh by the way
When we reach the preacher I'll say (with feeling!)
Yes sir, that's my baby
No sir, I don't mean maybe
Yes sir, that's my baby now!
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