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Publication date
1898
Language
English
ISWC
T-902.857.292-1 ASCAP, ISWC
Comments
Begins "When first I saw the love-light in your eye..."
Popular song published in 1898. Inspired and sung by the composer's wife the ballad quickly became a hit song in vaudeville. It has a long recording history, has been heard on film and is considered a standard of barbershop quartets. It was the #1 record in the USA in 1900.
Published by
WARNER BROS INC (WARNER BROS MUSIC DIV) ASCAP
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Title Performer Release date Info
November 1900 First release
listen on Internet Archive 1927
When You Were Sweet Sixteen The Mills Brothers 1940 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1946 Medley
May 1947
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November 1959
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listen on Internet Archive September 1967
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1975 Medley
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1981 Medley
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1998 Live
September 21, 1999 Released more than 10 years after its recording
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November 26, 2007
January 26, 2010
March 7, 2011
March 18, 2011 Medley
March 12, 2015