Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me

Writer: 
Sidney Clare & Con Conrad
Year: 
1940
Voices: 
Women's four part
Ranges: 

Tenor: E flat 4 - G5
Lead: A flat 3 - E flat 5
Bari: B flat 3 - D flat 5
Bass: D3 - F4

This song from a largely-forgotten 1940 movie is generally associated in British minds with the child star Lena Zavaroni, who had a hit with it when she was far too young to be worried about boys wanting to marry her. This arrangement sits squarely in the barbershop tradition in its treatment of the song, though it also takes more than a slight hint from Connie Francis's rendition from 1964.