Three Little Words is a 1930 popular song with music by Harry Ruby and lyrics by Bert Kalmar. It was recorded as a hit by The Rhythm Boys, featuring Bing Crosby, with the Duke Ellington orchestra, on August 26, 1930. The tune was released as a single and became very popular, and its fame carried into film, being heard in the 1930 Amos n' Andy movie Check and Double Check, whose orchestra members mime to the track, and in the 1950 biopic Three Little Words about Kalmar and Ruby. In the mid 1970s the Advertising Council used an instrumental version in seat belt safety PSAs with the line Seat belts: a nice way to say 'I Love You'. The song also served as the musical curtain on Uruguay's Decalegrón program from 1977 to 2002, and Judith Roberts sang it in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980). Genre-wise it is a 1930s popular song linked to big band and jazz influenced pop.
