Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue

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"Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" is a popular 1920s American jazz and pop standard, often associated with the flapper era and covered by numerous artists over the decades.

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Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue canonical 3
Five Foot Two 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf pop standard
song
alsoKnownAs Five Foot Two
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
associatedWith flapper era
composer Ray Henderson
continuedPopularityIn 1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
countryOfOrigin United States
coveredBy Art Mooney
Bing Crosby
Dean Martin
Doris Day
Frankie Laine
Gene Austin
Guy Lombardo
The California Ramblers
The Temperance Seven
Tiny Tim
decadeOfPeakPopularity 1920s
era 1920s
firstPublisher Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
genre jazz
traditional pop
hasCulturalAssociation Roaring Twenties
dance crazes of the 1920s
hasMusicalForm 32-bar chorus
hasNotableLyric "Five foot two, eyes of blue, but oh what those five feet can do"
"Has anybody seen my gal?"
hasTempo up-tempo
hasTheme romantic attraction
search for a missing lover
influencedBy Tin Pan Alley style
linked to: Tin Pan Alley
isStandardIn barbershop repertoire
traditional jazz repertoire
ukulele repertoire
language English
lyricist Joe Young
Sam M. Lewis
partOf Great American Songbook (broad sense)
publicationYear 1925
typicalEnsemble dance band
jazz combo
usedAs sing-along standard
ukulele standard

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Ray Henderson notableWork Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
Nick Lucas notableWork Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? alsoKnownAs Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue alsoKnownAs Five Foot Two
linked to: Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue