"Never Swat A Fly" Marius B. Winter & His Orchestra (1930) vocal by Al Bowlly.

Broadcast Twelve ^ | 1930 | Marius B. Winter

[Arthur McGowan]

On Broadcast 2606 (L-0820-1), Marius B. Winter & His Orchestra plays "Never Swat A Fly," a song from the Fox film titled "Just Imagine" (1930).

[Maceman]

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Thanks.... I love “Big Band”..!

[greene66]

There’s a little, narrow category of tunes from this time I find a tad too precociously corny for my tastes, and this has always been one of them. But I well know the bit in “Just Imagine” (1930), where Marjorie White and Frank Albertson introduce the song, and indeed watched it again not too long ago. White was a great little comedienne, whose delivery of lines almost always cracks me up in whatever film she is in. Sad that her life was cut so short.

[Liberty Valance]

FoxTrot bump*

[Fiji Hill]

Thanks for posting this and alerting me to it. I've been curious about this tune's title and provenance for four decades, and I was just thinking about it yesterday.

In the 1970's, I made a cassette recording of the song from the radio, but I didn't catch its title or name of the group that sang it--they sounded British and, if I remember correctly, only used a piano for accompaniment. By posting this, you have solved a long-term information need for me.