The Glenn Miller recording on RCA Bluebird featuring Marion Hutton on vocals reached No. 1 on the Your Hit Parade chart in 1940 where it topped the charts for seven weeks.[3]
Recorded versions
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra. Vocalist: Marion Hutton. Recorded on January 29, 1940. Released on a 78 rpm A side single record by Bluebird Records as catalog number 10598 backed with "Let's All Sing Together".[4] It "ranked third in jukeboxes in 1940."[2]
Two Greek versions were released in 1940 with different titles and lyrics. The first one was Μικρη χωριατοπουλα (Little Country Girl) recorded by Rena Vlahopoulou and also by Photis Polymeris with lyrics by Paul Menestrel.The second one "Κοροιδο Μουσσολινι" was a satirical version for the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini with lyrics by Yiorgos Economidis, who also recorded the song.
Hungarian version title: Egy kis kíváncsi kacsa, sung by László Kazal and Ida Major (1945) Lyrics János Rákosi