Marianne Faithfull - Mad About The Boy (The Songs of Noel Coward)

Album : Twentieth-Century Blues The Songs of Noel Coward Song Info : Written ostensibly about the generic matinee idol of the 1920s (with a sardonic nod towards the supposed heterosexuality of Valentino, Novarro and many other Hollywood male leads of the time), it was said that Coward had written about either Douglas Fairbanks Jnr or James Cagney - an unlikely pair of. The song had an unperformed verse in which a besuited businessman confessed his obsession: 'and even Doctor Freud cannot explain/Those vexing dreams/I've had about the boy.' The song debuted in Words and Music (1932), and was repsised by Dinah Washington in the 'Swimmer' Levis commercial