GEE, IT'S GOOD TO HOLD YOU


(Doris Fisher (m) / Allan Roberts (l) )


As sung by Frances Wayne 1945 (with Woody Herman and His Orchestra) 
on a single 78 rpm disk


Also sung by:

Gertrude Niesen

Jo Stafford (with Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra) 
(as a 78 rpm V Disc)

Buddy Johnson



Gee, it's good to hold you

Hold you in my arms

Gee, it's good to have you

Home again.


Gosh, I used to worry

When you didn't write

Waited for the mailman

Every day and night.


Gee, it's good to kiss you

Feel you close to me

Never knew how lonesome

A pair of lips could be.


So hold me, hug me, kiss me, once more

Hold me, hug me, kiss me, like you did it before

Gee, it's good to hold you

Hold you in my arms again.


Notes:


Frances Wayne, an American, was a jazz vocalist during the 1940s. She

sang in a number of big bands, Charlie Barnet, Neal Hefti (her husband)

and Woody Herman.


Doris Fisher, co-composer here, was a singer, composer and author. She

wrote a number of well known songs, among them 

YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE 

and INTO EACH LIFE SOME RAIN MUST FALL . 

She met up with Allan Roberts, the other co-composer here, in 1944 and 

together, they scored more than 20 films.


'Gee, It's Good To Hold You' was also released in 2005 as [Love Songs

WWII] . This was a compilation of her recordings between 1939 and 1945


(Transcribed by David Story May 2014)