Danny Kaye

David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian. Born to Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn, red-haired Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He learned his trade in his teen years as a tummler in the Catskills. In 1941 he appeared in the Broadway show, Lady in the Dark and performed the famous number "Tchaikovsky," by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin, in which he sang the names of a whole string of Russian composers at breakneck speed Read more on Last.fm

Danny Kaye has 15 songs that have been featured in movies like Katherine Jenkins: A Girl from Neath, On the Double, The Court Jester and The Man Who Drove with Mandela. What is your favorite song by Danny Kaye?

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Songs from Danny Kaye

Thumbelina

Coctails for Two

Life Could Not Better Be

Outfox the Fox

I'll Take You Dreaming

My Heart Knows a Love Song

The Inspector General (1949)

Soliloquy for Three Heads (1949)

Happy Times (1949)

Gypsy Drinking Song (1949)

Pavlova (1939)

Anatole of Paris

Symphony For an Unstrung Tongue (The Little Fiddle)

Theater Lobby Number

Melody in 4-F