Talk:What'll I Do

Slim Whitman
I have a recording of Slim singing an entirely different song with the same title. Did he ever record this one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.6.220 (talk) 08:03, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

"currently being used in a diet Coke ad"--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 01:43, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
could this be dated please so we know when "currently" was? thanks--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 01:43, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 9 months on and nobody's clarified this, so I've deleted the statement ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 11:48, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

And the fucking lyrics are...?
Great resource this wikipedia is, I am sure you will agree... 81.157.28.79 (talk) 21:02, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Copyright laws usually restrict the posting of lyrics on Wiki pages. Housewatcher (talk) 04:40, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

"Notable Recordings" section
I've removed the section about notable recordings: while a lot of work has been done to create it, some of the videos appear to be unofficial uploads so may well breach copyright per Wikipedia's policy on citing YouTube. The article would probably benefit from having the preceding section broken up, with the content from the second paragraph being reformatted into a separate list and merged with this latter section, and the (usable) YouTube references reformatted as footnotes. Below, I've pasted the content which I removed so editors can cannibalise it. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 10:14, 31 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Frances Alda (1924) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69j87i828PY


 * Walter Pidgeon (1924) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUSEgi3I2w Lester Hodges, piano.  Recorded July 15, 1924 in London.


 * Frank Sinatra (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DID9ruqhzUA  Recorded October 29, 1947 in New York, with Axel Stordahl conducting and arranging, released on Columbia Records.


 * Nat King Cole (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXVWwJaF6pc


 * Julie London (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD786xQUjPQ


 * Johnny Mathis (1957) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfKVRj2cyuA


 * Judy Holliday (1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnsV_pP2CoM


 * Frank Sinatra (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh0ZPkleeq4 Recorded January 17, 1962 in Los Angeles with Gordon Jenkins conducting and arranging, from the LP, "All Alone" released on Reprise Records.


 * Judy Garland (1964) (live TV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHcUArjHxHI


 * Bing Crosby (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZ_rHezGU0  Recorded  March 26, 1968 in San Francisco, with Geoff Love and orchestra.


 * Harry Nilsson (1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UoZn6B49A Conductor, Arranger: Gordon Jenkins


 * Rosemary Clooney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffcy3jg14yc


 * Linda Ronstadt (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIcTh604


 * Bea Arthur (1992) (live TV)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxJsl4e0Xmg


 * Willie Nelson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO3wNNZE9tk


 * Seth MacFarlane (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rdyzGUYFp8

Questionable Background information
The Background says (without citing a source) that "What'll I Do" was written by Berlin during a forced separation from Ellin Mackay, before they were married. However, the Songfacts article on the song cites a PBS Think Tank episode in which Irving and Ellin's daughter Linda says Ellin expressed her admiration for the song (while getting the title wrong) when they first met.


 * Berlin was married to his second wife, Ellin Mackay, from 1926 until her death in 1988. Their daughter Linda Emmet told PBS' Think Tank that this song was the spark that kindled her parents' romance: "My parents met at a dinner party given by a mutual friend. And my mother charmed my father because the first thing that she said to him was, 'Oh, Mister Berlin, I do so like your song, 'What Shall I Do?' And the song, of course, is 'What'll I Do' And so my father made some remark about his grammar not being nearly as good as hers. They took an instant liking to each other and then they started to see each other and when my grandfather got wind of it he disapproved and sent my mother abroad to get over Irving Berlin."''

Thinkatron (talk) 01:40, 1 February 2024 (UTC)