CHEERFUL LITTLE EARFUL
From the show "Sweet And Low" (1930)
(Billy Rose / Ira Gershwin / Harry Warren)

Tom Gerun & His Orch. - 1930
Ben Selvin & His Orch. (vocal: Helen Rowland) - 1930
Freddie Rich & His Orch. (vocal: Smith Ballew) - 1930
Vincent Lopez & His Orch. - 1930
Barney Kessel - 1956
Ella Fitzgerald - 1959
Jackie Cain & Roy Karl - 1978
Dave Frishberg - 1978 
Maxine Sullivan - 1986
Marty Grosz - 1994
Benjamin Sears & Bradford Conner - 1995
Also recorded by Spike Robinson; Tommy Dorsey; Seger Ellis. 


There's a cheerful little earful
Gosh I miss it something fearful
And this cheerful little earful
Is the well known "I love you."

Stocks can go down, bus'ness slow down
But the milk and honey flow down
With a cheerful little earful
Of the well known "I love you."

In ev'ry play it's a set phrase
What the public get phrase
But as a pet phrase it'll do do do
Poo-pa-roo-it
Soft and cu-it
Make me happy, you can do it.

With a cheerful little earful
Of the well known "I love you."