"Daddy": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video

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Daddy
Written: 1941	Words and Music by: Bobby Troup	Written for: 1941 University of Pennsylvania Mask and Wig show
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Julie London

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"Daddy"

on the Jack Benny Show [TV]
(1962)

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About the Mask and Wig Show / Origins of the Song

Other songs written for the 1941 Mask and Wig show currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook: none.

That Bobby Troup wrote "Daddy" for the 1941 University of Pennsylvania Mask and Wig Show is probable but not certain.

The Mask and Wig show of the Mask and Wig Club at the University of Pennsylvania is one of the oldest student produced college shows in the United States, dating back to 1881. Bobby Troup graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and was a member of the Mask and Wig Club, for which several sources indicate he wrote "Daddy." However, hard evidence this is currently lacking.

The Mask and Wig archive for "Out of This World," The Mask and Wig Spring Show of 1941, does not reveal any material for "Daddy," however, the archive is apparently not complete. Sammy Kaye's recording of "Daddy" was first charted May 24, 1941 (By June it reached #1 where it remained for eight weeks), and by October 1941, "Daddy" could be found on the soundtrack of the movie Two Latins from Manhattan. All of this is consistent with "Daddy" having been written for the Spring Show of Mask and Wig, which typically ran from late January through March, and then quickly becoming a national hit.

Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra play and sing his 1941 hit
version of "Daddy."

Songwriter Troup, his trio and Virginia Maxey
perform his song "Daddy," c. 1951

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Julie London on The Jack Benny Show: TheRecordChanger
Sammy Kaye: vegas1a
Bobby Troup and Virginia Maxey: MattTheSaiyan

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