I Wish I Didn't Love You So

Album: The Perils Of Pauline (1947)
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  • Written by Frank Loesser, this down tempo number is as its title suggests about unrequited love. It is performed in the 1947 comedy The Perils Of Pauline by Betty Hutton as the damsel in distress of silent films, Pearl White. >>>
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    Alexander Baron - London, England

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  • Bill from UsBetty Hutton I believe was the first to do "Its so Quiet Here", which most people think is a unique Bjork song, it was actually done long before she was even born.
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