Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue

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"Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" is a popular 1920s American jazz and pop standard, often associated with the flapper era and covered by numerous artists over the decades.

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Label Occurrences
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue canonical 3
Five Foot Two 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf pop standard ⓘ
song ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Five Foot Two ⓘ
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? ⓘ
associatedWith flapper era ⓘ
composer Ray Henderson ⓘ
continuedPopularityIn 1930s ⓘ
1940s ⓘ
1950s ⓘ
1960s ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
coveredBy Art Mooney ⓘ
Bing Crosby ⓘ
Dean Martin ⓘ
Doris Day ⓘ
Frankie Laine ⓘ
Gene Austin ⓘ
Guy Lombardo ⓘ
The California Ramblers ⓘ
The Temperance Seven ⓘ
Tiny Tim ⓘ
decadeOfPeakPopularity 1920s ⓘ
era 1920s ⓘ
firstPublisher Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. ⓘ
genre jazz ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ
hasCulturalAssociation Roaring Twenties ⓘ
dance crazes of the 1920s ⓘ
hasMusicalForm 32-bar chorus ⓘ
hasNotableLyric "Five foot two, eyes of blue, but oh what those five feet can do" ⓘ
"Has anybody seen my gal?" ⓘ
hasTempo up-tempo ⓘ
hasTheme romantic attraction ⓘ
search for a missing lover ⓘ
influencedBy Tin Pan Alley style ⓘ
linked to: Tin Pan Alley
isStandardIn barbershop repertoire ⓘ
traditional jazz repertoire ⓘ
ukulele repertoire ⓘ
language English ⓘ
lyricist Joe Young ⓘ
Sam M. Lewis ⓘ
partOf Great American Songbook (broad sense) ⓘ
publicationYear 1925 ⓘ
typicalEnsemble dance band ⓘ
jazz combo ⓘ
usedAs sing-along standard ⓘ
ukulele standard ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ray Henderson → notableWork → Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue ⓘ
Nick Lucas → notableWork → Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue ⓘ
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? → alsoKnownAs → Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue ⓘ
Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue → alsoKnownAs → Five Foot Two ⓘ
linked to: Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue