<P> Some of the earliest popular recordings were by John Yorke AtLee (1891); Joe Belmont (1899); Frank Stanley and Corinne Morgan (1904); and Alma Gluck (1915). </P> <P> The song's melody was reprised by Louis Prima & Keely Smith for their 1956 version of the song, with new lyrics, entitled "Nothing's Too Good For My Baby ." </P> <P> Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs (1961) </P> <P> Its verse was the instrumental introduction to a number of the early short films from 1935 - 1938 by The Three Stooges, rendered in a comical manner with birds chirping in the background . The first Stooges short to employ this theme was 1935's Pardon My Scotch; in later shorts the song was replaced with "Three Blind Mice ." </P>

Words to the song listen to the mockingbird