Thank Heaven for Little Girls French accent, Peter Sellers. In the "Happy Days" Season 5 episode "Be My Valentine" (February 14, 1978), a then-18-year-old Scott Baio sang it as part of a series of musical numbers commemorating Valentine's Day. In the 1997 film "Wag the Dog", the song performed by Chevalier is used as backdrop for an election campaign ad. Thank Heaven for Little Girls "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" is a 1957 song written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and associated with its original performer, Maurice Chevalier. It opened and closed the 1958 film "Gigi". Alfred Drake performed the song in the
Thank You for the Music tour. It was the opening track in the four-song musical, which also included "I Wonder (Departure)", "I'm a Marionette" and "Get on the Carousel". The first three songs from the musical were featured on "ABBA: The Album"; the latter remains unreleased. "Thank You for the Music" is better known in its own right today. "Gracias por la Música" is the Spanish-language recording of "Thank You for the Music", with lyrics by Buddy and Mary McCluskey. The B-side was the Spanish-language version of "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" entitled "¡Dame! ¡Dame! ¡Dame!". The song was released in 1980 to