They Didn't Believe Me is a song with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Herbert Reynolds. It was introduced in the 1914 musical The Girl from Utah, premiering on August 14, 1914 at the Knickerbocker Theatre, and it became Kern's first major song success. The tune is written in four-four time with four beats to a bar, and it helped popularize the fox-trot by blending ragtime and other American styles with a fresh, everyday love lyric. The earliest known recording is a 1915 duet by Alice Green and Harry Macdonough. It has since become a standard, recorded by artists such as Kathryn Grayson and Mario Lanza, and it features in the 1949 MGM film That Midnight Kiss. Its World War I era release led to its adoption by soldiers as an ironic take on trench life, and it has been referenced in Oh, What a Lovely War as "We'll Never Tell Them."
