My Heart Belongs to Daddy

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My Heart Belongs to Daddy is a song written by Cole Porter in 1938. A staple of the American songbook, it has been recorded by a huge number of singers, including Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe.

It was introduced by Mary Martin in the musical Leave It to Me, which had music and lyrics by Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack.

The song contains one of Porter's most obscure lyrics, one of several rhymes for "daddy" - in which the singer talks about her "fine finnan haddie," a Scottish term for smoked haddock.

Referring specifically to the melody, Oscar Levant described it as "one of the most Yiddish tunes ever written" despite the fact that "Cole Porter's genetic background was completely alien to any Jewishness."[1]

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  1. ^ Oscar Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar, Pocket Books 1969 (reprint of G.P. Putnam 1968), p. 32. ISBN 0-671-77104-3.
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