Helen Morgan - Bill
Performer - Helen Morgan
Music - Jerome Kern
Lyrics - P. G. Wodehouse and Oscar Hammerstein
This performance comes from the 1936 movie version of Show Boat. For some inexplicable reason, it has not been put on DVD in the US. George Gershwin said that Jerome Kern had succeeded in composing the ultimate American operetta with Show Boat, and I agree with that assessment.