1931: I Found A Million Dollar Baby - Don Voorhees' Orch.

Don Voorhees’ Orchestra – I Found A Million Dollar Baby, Fox-Trot (Rose, Dixon, Warren), Hit of the Week 1931, USA

NOTE: Don VOORHEES (b. 1903 in Allentown, Pennsylvania – d. 1989 in Cape May Court House, NJ) American bandleader, who established ahis own dance band in 1926 and started recording prolifically for Columbia, Edison, Pathe, Cameo and Hit of the Week until 1931, when he ceased bandleading and got involved a broadcast work. He is remembered as the musical director or the conductor in the Cavalcade of America, The Texaco Fire Chief Show, The Maxwell House Showboat or The Telephone Hour, which he managed into the 1950s. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1966 for "Individual Achievements in Music" for his work on the series. He was also the first conductor of the symphony orchestra in his hometown (Allentown Symphony Orchestra) from 1951 to 1983.
The song “I Found A Million Dollar Baby” was presented first in 1926 with music written by Billy Rose and Fred Fisher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFGun8F_REQ and once again in 1931 with still the same lyrics and music written by Harry Warren. This second version was presented by Fanny Brice in Billy Rose’s Broadway Quilt and became an evergreen, recorded in the same year by Big Crosby or the Boswell Sisters. The song’s lyrics are an obvious hint to Barbara Hutton, America's most famous heiress - a 'poor little rich girl'. Though she lived a golden life as the only heiress of the Woolworth $25 million fortune (hence the irony about the “5 & 10 cent store” in the lyrics) and was married to a Georgian prince, a Danish count, and to the handsomest actor in Hollywood - Cary Grant – and being an owner of a mansion in England, palace on the Grand Canal in Venice, a castle in Tangier, and a Japanese-style home in Cuernavaca, Barbara Hutton was an unhappy woman, haunted by loneliness.

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