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The 1951 film version of ''Show Boat'' went even one step further than the 1966 stage revival in "smoothing out" any "edginess" about the song, by omitting all reference to it as one sung for years by [[African-Americans]], and thereby omitting the section in which Queenie remarks that it is strange for Julie to know the song. In the 1951 film, the song is simply a love song Julie sings about her husband Steve, not a folk tune. Lena Horne also sings it this way in ''Till the Clouds Roll By''.
==Notable recordings==
* [[Vaughn de Leath]]'s vocal chorus with Don Voorhees and His Orchestra, recorded in June 1928 (10" Columbia Graphophone, Cat no. 4901, side A)
* [[Billie Holiday]] in 1937.
* [[Shirley Bassey]] for the [[Show Boat (1959 cast album)|1959 British studio cast album]] of ''Show Boat''.
* [[Carol Bruce]] and other members of the cast of the 1946 revival of ''Show Boat''
*[[June Christy]] - ''[[Cool Christy]]'' (2002)
* [[Ella Fitzgerald]], in the 1963 Verve release, ''[[Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook]]''
* [[Bud Freeman]] & The Summa Cum Laude Orchestra (the lyrics, written from a female perspective, are sung by a man)
* [[Tess Gardella]] (the original Queenie in "Show Boat")
* [[Ava Gardner]] (her own singing voice is heard on the soundtrack album of the 1951 film version of ''Show Boat'', but not in the actual film, where her singing was dubbed by Annette Warren)
* [[Kathryn Grayson]], Show Boat Original Motion Picture Sound Track, 1951
* [[Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar]] on the album ''[[Gling-Gló]]''
* [[Annette Hanshaw]]
* [[Lena Horne]]
* [[Cleo Laine]] and other members of the cast of the 1971 revival of ''Show Boat''
* [[Lonette McKee]] and members of the [[Harold Prince]] revival of ''Show Boat''
* [[Helen Morgan]] (1928 studio recording, the prologue to the 1929 film version of ''Show Boat'', the studio recording released in conjunction with the 1932 revival, the 1936 film version, and several other recordings)
* [[Sandi Patty]]
* [[Marina Prior]]
* [[Trudy Richards]]
* [[Teresa Stratas]] and other cast members of the acclaimed 1988 [[Studio recording|studio cast recording]] of ''Show Boat''
* [[Barbra Streisand]], using the 1951 movie orchestrations, with the addition of [[Stevie Wonder]] on harmonica.
* [[Constance Towers]] and other members of the cast of the 1966 revival of ''Show Boat''
* [[Annette Warren]] (on the compact disc version of the 1951 "Show Boat" soundtrack, where her rendition of the song is included along with Ava Gardner's))
* [[Margaret Whiting]] – ''[[Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook]]'' (1960)
* [[Gogi Grant]] – singing for [[Ann Blyth]] on the soundtrack of ''[[The Helen Morgan Story]]'' (1957).
==In contemporary popular culture==
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