Nobody's Sweetheart Now


"Nobody's Sweetheart", also known as "Nobody's Sweetheart Now" and "You're Nobody's Sweetheart Now", is a popular song, written in 1924, with music by Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel, and lyrics by Gus Kahn and Ernie Erdman. The song is a jazz and pop standard.

Background

The song was introduced by Ted Lewis in the Broadway revue The Passing Show of 1923. The song was duly published in 1924 by Mills Music in New York by Jack Mills. It was first recorded on February 22, 1924 by Isham Jones and his Orchestra and released on Brunswick Records as a 78 single.
Joel Whitburn assessed the early popular recordings of the song as being by Isham Jones ; Red Nichols ; Paul Whiteman ; Cab Calloway ; and by The Mills Brothers.
The song was used as the theme for the Joan Davis Time program on old-time radio.

Other recordings

The song is a jazz and pop standard recorded by the following musicians:
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