http://www.artistopia.com/hessionsessionWalter Donaldson was one of Americas most prolific songwriters to write for Tin Pan Alley. In 1980 Martha and I wrote a series of shows on American Songwriters. One of the shows was the music of Walter Donaldson. Next to Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, Donaldson's prolific output helped to shape America's music. On one of the evenings at the Variety Arts Theater in downtown LA a large family group showed up to view the Donaldson show. At the end of the presentation a man approached us to say that he was Donald Kahn(also a songwriter and son of Gus Kahn the lyricist). He had brought with him over a dozen members of the Walter Donaldson family.It was a good thing we didn't know about this until after the fact. We formed a friendship with the family members and for most of the next 12 years we recorded the library of Donaldson tunes for the family archives. I believe we recorded well over 600 songs. That show brought us many excellent reviews. On another evening a tall, handsome man started singing along with our version of "Yes Sir,That's My Baby". It turned out that Cary Grant was the handsome man who was a close friend of Donaldson and had even sung another standard of Walter's songbook,"Did I Remember?" in the early movie, Suzy with Jean Harlow. It was Cary Grant that brought in the L.A. Times reviewer a week later. The Donaldson songbook has long been a favorite of ours, hopefully we will, at some date record a tribute to this phenomenal songwriter! We have included this song by request of a YouTube viewer. When in college my first two years at UCSanta Barbara I learned this song from Robin Frost, the prolific composer of stride tunes. This was a standard in his group,The Four That Sound Like More.
