Wilder wrote the song for Ethel Waters, not Peggy Lee. Wilder admired Waters
and in a note in the song folio Alec Wilder Songs Were Made To Sing, Wilder said
that he wrote all his early songs for either her or Bing Crosby. He never met
Waters and she never sang any of his songs. He also says that the original song
had a much gamier lyric than the final version. This is another subject for
research. I don't know the answer myself.

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