The Helen Morgan Page

… Helen Morgan recorded “Who Cares What You Have Been”, a song she introduced in the 1928-29 edition of the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic. (My apologies: the audio is not the best here.)

Curiously, she did not include Days, her other Martin Freed song from the Frolic as the flips-side on this disk. In fact, it appears that this song went unrecorded by anybody.

Even sadder, she never commercially recorded her other big Frolic number. As part of a retrospective of Florenz Ziegfeld’s legendary career, she sang, next to closing, “My Man.”

Instead, she recorded, also on this date, “Mean to Me.”

And that ain’t too shabby.

This site serves as a companion to Helen Morgan: The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld’s Last Star. Ask your local independent bookseller to stock it today!