Cockeyed Optimist – Ruby Braff

Appears On

• Younger Than Swingtime: Music from South Pacific(1990)

Writers & Composers

• Richard Rodgers(composer)
• Oscar Hammerstein II(lyricist)

Composition

Recording of A Cockeyed Optimist

Other Versions (16)

• A Cockeyed Optimistby Bing Crosby
• A Cock-Eyed Optimistby Richard Rodgers
• A Cock-Eyed Optimistby Margaret Whiting
• A Cock Eyed Optimistby Johnny Mathis
• A Cock-Eyed Optimistby Johnny Mathis
• South Pacificby London Philharmonic Orchestra
• A Cock‐Eyed Optimist / There Is Nothing Like a Dame / Shall We Dance?by Maureen McGovern
• Cockeyed Optimistby [unknown]
• A Cockeyed Optimistby Reba McEntire
• Rodgers and Hammerstein Medley: A Cock‐Eyed Optimist / I Have Dreamed / Surrey With the Fringe on Topby Lena Horne
• A Cockeyed Optimistby Barbra Streisand
• Cockeyed Optimist (orchestra version)by Nancy Sinatra
• A Cockeyed Optimistby Julie Andrews
• A Cock-Eyed Optimistby Percy Faith
• A Cockeyed Optimistby The Chico Hamilton Quintet
• This Is How It Feels / A Cockeyed Optimist (reprise)by Reba McEntire