LOVABLE & SWEET 

(Oscar Levant / Sidney Clare (m & l) )

As sung by Annette Hanshaw August 1929 < Lovable & Sweet > (with Ben
Selvin and His Orchestra). This song is also commonly associated with
Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra during the 1920's and 30s.

Duh dum pe dum
Duh dum pe dum
I'm not lonely
Duh dum pe dum
I got a real man
What an ideal man, now.

Duh dum pe dum
Duh dum pe dum
He's the only duh dum pe dum
Person I love
Has all of my love and how.

Talk about your perfect lover
And you couldn't help discover
That he's that way, lovable and sweet
He's candy.

And he's got the arms that thrill ya
Lips that seem to whip-or-will ya
And he's that way, loveable
Just six feet two with eyes of blue.

Oh gee, oh gosh
Whenever we're all alone
Oh gosh and oh gee
What happens is simply too good to be.

Now, I'm bubblin' over with affection
Satisfying to perfection
Is he that way, lovable and sweet.

(bridge)

Talk about your nifty dresser
What a lover, some caresser
Is he that way lovable buh buh buh doop doop do doodle do doodle do.

Do I know just what I'm gettin'
When it comes to real live pettin'
Is he that way he's so ba da dum, ba da dum, buh doodle doodle do.

Inside inside
Lotta husbands would lose control
His kiss, oh what bliss
It weakens the heart, but it turns into soul.

And although he's such a nice man
Could I love any nice man
Yes, he's that way, he's so...
He's very loveable
And oh so sweet.

That's All!

Notes:

(Catherine) Annette Hanshaw, an American, was a blues and jazz singer
from the 1920s and early 1930s and was purportedly one of the first
female jazz singers of that era.

She was known as 'The Personality Girl' or later as the 'The Flapper
Girl' by her followers and fit the 1920s period perfectly with her
flapper style and sweet innocent-sounding voice. She often ended her
songs with the cute tag "That's All". 
see 
  MY BLACKBIRDS ARE BLUEBIRDS NOW
or 
  THE ONE IN THE WORLD
for examples.


Some consider the later Hanshaw, a 'torch singer' along with the likes
of Ruth Etting, Mildred Bailey, Jane Froman and Bebe Daniels. Strangely,
she thought her abilities 'wanting' by her own standards and retired
early to married life, after only 15 years in the business.

 The music LOVABLE & SWEET  is derived from the soundtrack of the
 1929 B & W radio picture < Street Girl > but Hanshaw did not sing it in
 the movie. This foxtrot tempo song is considered a jazz classic today.
 Hanshaw sung scat more often, later on in her career.

There are several renditions of these lyrics to be found, scattered
throughout the music archives.




(Transcribed by David Story- April 2014)