Thank Heaven for Little Girls 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 1973 Broadway stage production of "Gigi", though in the 2015 revival, it was sung as a duet between Victoria Clark and Dee Hoty. The Chevalier version is often regarded as the definitive version of the song; he recorded it in 1958. In 2004, it finished at #56 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top
Thank Heaven for Little Girls (album) Thank Heaven for Little Girls (album) Thank Heaven for Little Girls is an album by Dwarves released via Sub Pop in 1991. Lyricism of "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" ranges from the macabre deaths of young ladies of the night in "Blag the Ripper" (inspired by the historical Jack the Ripper), to befriending Satan in "Satan," and to general selfishness in "Anybody But Me." The song title of "Dairy Queen" is inspired by being stranded at a local Dairy Queen restaurant in Missouri. David Sprague of "Trouser Press" described the album as a "water-treading" release, and noted the band's shift