I WANT A LITTLE GIRL
(Billy Moll / Murray Mancher)


McKinney's Cotton Pickers (vocal: George Thomas) - 1930

Count Basie & His Orch. - 1956
Big Joe Turner - 1956
Ray Charles - 1958
Benny Goodman's Big Band - 1958
Billy Eckstine (with Count Basie & His Orch.) - 1959
Vic Damone - 1962
Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One - 1964
Jimmy Rushing - 1971
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - 1981
Roy Eldridge - 1986
Joe Williams - 1987
Jimmy Witherspoon - 1988
Bert Firman & his Rhythmic Eight - 1930
Louis Armstrong - 1946
Kay Starr ("Boy") - 1955
Sammy Price - 1957
Nat "King" Cole w Count Basie's Orch (but not CB!) '58

Also recorded by: 
Pee Wee Russell; Jimmy Smith; Ike Quebec; Ben Webster; 
Jack McDuff; Lou Donaldson; T-Bone Walker; Earl Hines; 
Clark Terry.......and others.





I want a little girl to love a lot
I'd give her everything that I've got
For a little girl who'd fall in love with me

I want a little girl, she may not look
Like the kind in the picture book
But if she can cook, she'll suit me to a 'T'

She don't have to wave her hair
Or dress in fancy clothes
And I wouldn't even care
If she don't wear silken hose

I want a little girl to call my own
There must be someone that's all alone
Just a little girl who'd fall in love with me






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2011)

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As recorded by LOUIS ARMSTRONG:

Ummmm, I want a little girl to call my own
Must be someone who's all alone
Just a little girl to fall in love with me, ooh yes

I want a little girl, she may not look
Like the picture in the storybook
But if she can cook, she'll suit me to a 'T', ummm

She don't have to wave her hair
Or dress in fancy clothes
Ummm, and I wouldn't even care
If she didn't wear silken hose, oh yes

I want a little girl to love a lot
I'd give anything that I've got
For a little girl who'd fall in love with me
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as rec by Jimmy Witherspoon w The Jay McShann Sextet   1946



I want a little girl to call my own,
Just a girl that's all alone,
A little girl to fall in love with me.
I want a little girl, she may not look
like the kind in a story book,
But if she can cook she'll suit me to a tee!

She doesn't have to wave her hand,
Or dress in fancy clothes,
And I wouldn't even care
If she didn't wear none at all!

I want a little girl to have a lot,
I would give her anything I've got
For a little girl to fall in love with me.

She doesn't have to wave her hand,
Or dress in fancy clothes,
And I wouldn't even care
If she didn't wear silken hose!

I want a little girl to have a lot,
I would give her anything I've got
For a little girl to fall in love with me.





(Contributed by Peter Akers - April 2009)