"Baby Face" piano roll sing-along with Stevens Price

After the Saturday evening concert at the 10th annual Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival, some people gathered in the Ice Cream Emporium for a sing-along with the player piano, led by festival head and Emporium owner Stevens Price.

Recorded shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday, 9 August 2008 in Sutter Creek, California.

This famous song dates from 1926, by Harry Akst with lyrics by Benny Davis.

Here are those lyrics, so you can sing along (note that these are the original lyrics; Stevens does sing some lines slightly differently):

Rosy cheeks and turned-up nose and curly hair
I'm raving 'bout my baby now
Pretty little dimples here and dimples there,
Don't want to live without her
I love her, goodness knows
I wrote a song about her and here's the way it goes

[chorus]
Baby Face, you've got the cutest little baby face
There's not another one could take your place
Baby face
My poor heart is jumpin'; you sure have started somethin'
Baby face, I'm up in heaven when I'm in your fond embrace
I didn't need a shove, 'cause I just fell in love
With your pretty baby face

When you were a baby not so long ago
You must have been the cutest thing
I can picture you at ev'ry baby show
Just winnin' ev'ry ribbon with your sweet baby way
Say, honest I ain't fibbin', you'd win 'em all today

(repeat chorus)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ragtime
• song
• player
• piano
• singing
• akst
• price
• suttercreek

[hotsickle]

I'd like to know who the piano roll artist was? It's a swell arrangement that's for sure.

[Keeper1st]

Hmm... I'll try to remember to find this roll next time I'm in Sutter Creek and take note of it for you. Not sure if I'll have an opportunity to go there before the next festival in August. I'd like to, but it's a nearly three-hour ride (supposedly; I'll be coming from Nevada now instead of from the coast like I have in the past), so I'll need a good reason. The Mother Lode Ragtime Society meets next weekend, but my fiancée probably will be moving in with me that weekend too.

[Keeper1st]

Oh gosh I forgot about this! But I did indeed go to Sutter Creek last month and found that the roll was the work of J. Lawrence Cook.

[hotsickle]

Ok, that's good to know. It must be his original 1926 version. Thanks

[hotsickle]

Ok, thanks. I have the Ampico version, but I really like this one better!