“Hello, Mary Lou, goodbye heart Sweet Mary Lou, I’m so in love with you I knew Mary Lou, we’d never part So hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart”Ricky Nelson’s song “Hello Mary Lou” from 1961.
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; 1910 –1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.
Sweet Mary Lou, I’m so in love with you
I knew Mary Lou, we’d never part
So hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart”
Ricky Nelson’s song “Hello Mary Lou” from 1961.