Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Gal)

DESCRIPTION: "Five foot two, eyes of blue, Oh, what those five feet could do, Has anybody seen my gal? Turned up nose, turned down hose, Never had no other clothes, Has anybody... If you run into a five foot two covered with fur... Bet your life it isn't her...."
AUTHOR: Words: Sam Lewis and Joe Young / Music: Ray Henderson (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1925 (sheet music published by Leo Feist)
KEYWORDS: love courting clothes ring
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RECORDINGS:
Gene Austin, "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Gal)" (Victor 19899-B, 1926)
Fran Hendrickson, "Five Foot Two" (instrumental with references to the words; Piotr-Archive #291, recorded 10/07/2022)
NOTES [141 words]: Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 357, estimates that this was the eleventh most popular song in America in 1926, peaking at #3 in February of the year (the #1 song that year being Irving Berlin's "Always"). It had another peak in 1949.
A movie by this title was released in 1952, but the song was perhaps incidental; it was based on a different source.
There have been many, many parodies, along the lines of "Six foot five... has anybody seen my guy." Perhaps it's just too easy to imitate....
Incidentally, the average height of American women in the 1920s was a bit less than five foot four. So the girl was short but not really short. An equivalent girl would probably be five foot four, or perhaps a little more than that, in 2023. - RBW
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