LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART

“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” is a popular song, with music by Leo Friedman and lyrics

by Beth Slater Whitson. The song was published in 1910 and first recorded by The

Peerless Quartet. The girl who modeled for the original sheet music is alleged to have

been Virginia Rappe, the subject of the 1921 Roscoe ‘Fatty‘ Arbuckle scandal. Among the

thousands of mainstream appearances of this pop standard is a British advert for mobile

phone operator and internet service provider Orange SA, involving a wind-up toy of two

figures hugging. The version used in this advert was sung by Oliver Hardy from the 1938

film Swiss Miss, made with his comic partner Stan Laurel.

Let me call you Sweetheart

I’m in love with you

Let me hear you whisper that you love me too

Keep the lovelight glowing in your eyes so true

Let me call you Sweetheart

I’m in love with you

Let me call you Sweetheart

I’m in love with you

Let me hear you whisper that you love me too

Keep the lovelight glowing in your eyes so true

Let me call you Sweetheart

I’m in love with you

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