Gene Austin - Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (1926)

[wyrdboys]

1920's Speakeasy jazz during the prohibition is where it's at.

[wyrdboys]

Absolutely love this, I'm a tuba player, and play this in my Dixieland band... And I could listen to this EVERY day. :)

[Batdarrell]

woahh thx!!!



[Cheeseburgeh]

Hey! I'm five foot two and I have blue eyes! haha :)

[jaroncreed]

@Cheeseburgeh I hope you are a girl lol

[LightningWolf452]

@Cheeseburgeh

Me tooo! AND I'm a girl. xD

[Surfergal3601]

4 ft 11 eyes of blue haahah just missed the cut

[Surfergal3601]

@Surfergal3601  haahahha lolz! xD

[RetroJenny]

Im five foot four with eyes of brown! LOL

[Ech0666]

I don't care if i was born in 1994 and live in now I love the classics!!

[psychkoala]

@Ech0666

Ha, ha, great.

[WilliamBrothers]

If it ain't applesauce, it's obviously the bees knees.

[Oozyroflcopter]

i sang this for all region choir today :DD

[davedial1951]

I think this artist is actually Cliff Edward, who was famous as "Ukelele Ike" in the 1920s. Cliff later went to work for Walt Disney and was featured as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in "Pinocchio" (1940) in which he sang "When You Wish Upon A Star", for which he was best known to later generations.

[Rodgerdodger66]

@davedial1951 : No, this is Gene Austin. He and Cliff Edwards had very similar singing styles and often sound alike.

[XxMissNoNamexX]

I'm five foot two with eyes of blue! Woohoo!

[hotsickle]

@XxMissNoNamexX oink !

[BeatlesFetish09]

@XxMissNoNamexX lucky you. this was my song when i was 14 but then i shoot up another 3 inches.

[Kell1295]

My grandmother use to rock out to this. I miss her this is her favorite day. Anyway have a safe and happy 2010. :)

[AulicExclusiva]

Ruined completely by excessive, tin-eared noise supression.

[ModernScreen]

My grandmother passed away when I was a teenager and we inherited her old 78 RPM records. This was one of them. I loved it! I was probably the only 8th grader grooving to Gene Austin at the time. I don't have a 78 turntable now, so I haven't heard this in ages--thanks for posting it here. :)

[chkjns]

I've just added this to 1926 in my 110 music playlists going back to 1900.

You can play any list and feel as if you're back in the day for up to 2 hours.

I'm always adding songs until all play at least 2 hours. Hope you'll give a listen. This was the year my Mom was born !

[GrenvilleT]

I also love this song - but I'm 6 ft 1inch, grey-haired and deeply paunchy. Oh dear, nothing rhymes...

[LuvChicken4ever5]

i love this song and i am 5 foot 2 but i have brown eyes tho

[compound32]

hahaha

[her0nn]

@LuvChicken4ever5 - I am 5'2" too and I do have blue eyes, it's kindof funny listening to this because of it

[heinbanjo12]

Who is the ukulele player? And also on What a Life?