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The Hot Canary
Music for violin & piano
The Hot Canary is a musical composition written for violin and piano by Paul Nero[1] and published in 1948.[2] Ray Gilbert added lyrics in 1949.[3] It was a 1951 hit for violinist Florian ZaBach, selling over a million copies and spending 10 weeks on the Billboard charts, reaching number 13 on The Billboard Best Selling Pop Singles.[4]
The composition has been recorded by many artists, including:
- Paul Weston (1949)[5]
- Joe Venuti (1949)[6]
- Maynard Ferguson (1951)[7]
- Max Pollikoff (1951)[8]
- Percy Faith (1951)[9]
- Ella Fitzgerald (1956)[10]
- Henry Mancini (1963)[11]