Glad Rag Doll is a 1928 song composed by Milton Ager

Milton Ager

Milton Ager was an American composer.Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician. After spending time as an accompanist to silent...

 with lyrics by Jack Yellen

Jack Yellen

Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...

 and Dan Dougherty. It was Ager and Yellen’s first movie theme song, written for the motion picture of the same name

Glad Rag Doll (film)

Glad Rag Doll is a 1929 all talking drama film directed by Michael Curtiz starring Dolores Costello. This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.-Cast:...

 (released in 1929) starring Dolores Costello

Dolores Costello

Dolores Costello was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen"...

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Early important recordings of the song include those by:

• Ted Lewis and His Band (1928)
• Arthur Briggs and His Boys (1929)
• Earl "Fatha" Hines (1929)
• Tommy Dorsey
  Tommy Dorsey
  Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
  
  
• Ruth Etting

Additional later recordings include those by:

• Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality.-Early life:John Alvin Ray was born in...
  
   (1954)
• Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  Kay Starr is an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 50s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz"....
  
   (1955)
• Barbara Cook
  Barbara Cook
  Barbara Cook is an American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway musicals Candide and The Music Man among others, winning a Tony Award for the latter...
  
   (1975)
• Joyce Moody and Earl Wentz
  Earl Wentz
  Earl Wentz was an American pianist, composer, and musical director most noted for his creation in 2000 of the American Composer Series, an ongoing performance series in the cabaret format.-Early years:...
  
   (2007)

Pianist Dagmar Nordstrom

Dagmar Nordstrom

Dagmar Nordstrom was an American composer, pianist and singer. She performed together with her sister Siggie as a cabaret singing duo known as The Nordstrom Sisters.-Background:...

 created an early piano roll

Piano roll

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 of the song for Steinway

Steinway

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in the 1920s.