Fred E. Ahlert

19, uh, 36 was a, a minor year for heart songs, I would say.

Titles include Let's Call a Heart a Heart, Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnson; Does Your Heart Beat for Me, Mitchell Parish, Russ Morgan, and Arnold Johnson; Take My Heart, Fred Ahlert and Joe Young; and The Curse of an Aching Heart by Henry Fink and Al Piantadosi.

And on we go to 1937 and a song written by Jack Lawrence, 1912-2009, and Peter Tinterin, 1910-2007.

We featured, uh, Jack before, although not in his own episode.

The only other British recording of the tune was by Victor Sylvester & His Ballroom Orchestra, but it became very popular here in the US around 1940 with recordings by Dick Robertson, Sammy Kaye, Dinah Shore, The Ink Spots, Kate Smith, and Harry James.

Before that was Dolly Kaye with The Georgians under the direction of Frank Guarente, with The Maybe written by Fred Ahlert, Ted Snyder, and Roy Turk.

The full title of the song on the Waterson, Berlin, and Snyder sheet music is Maybe (With She'll Write Me, She'll Phone Me).

However, the label of Columbia 70D, recorded January 11th, 1924, shows the title as simply Maybe.