“Do You Know what It Means to Miss New Orleans?” written by Eddie DeLange and Louis Alter from the 1947 film New Orleans, which was directed by Arthur Lubin, who had earlier directed a number of popular films starring the comic team of Abbot and Costello and then in 1943 the remake of Phantom of the Opera, which was originally a silent film. He later directed movies starring Francis, a talking Mule, and then Mister Ed, which featured a talking horse. Here’s the plot of New Orleans, as described on IMDb:
In 1917, Nick Duquesne is the King of Basin Street, owning a casino and night-club. One night, he meets the wealthy Mrs. Rutledge Smith and her daughter Miralee Smith, who is a wannabe opera singer, to satisfy her mother but loves the blues and jazz from the black people. She flees from her mother to see Louis Armstrong and his Band playing and her maid and Louis’ girlfriend Endie singing in the club with Nick and her music teacher Henry Ferber in Storyville. Soon, Nick and she fall in love with each other. But when sailors hit Nick’s former mistress Grace Voiselle on the street, the city government decides to shutdown Storyville and Nick needs to move to Chicago. Worried with Miralee’s promising career as opera singer, Nick takes a bracelet from Mrs. Smith as a price to leave Miralee, but he asks Ferber to return to her. Nick moves to Chicago, where he is forced to work with a legitimate business of jazz and blues, since gambling machines are illegal, while Miralee travels to Europe with Professor Ferber to begin her singing career. Years later, they are forced to stumble [upon] each other. What will happen with them?”
A few years ago, while searching through the virtual photograph collection of the New Orleans Public Library – my grandfather spent a decade directing the city’s public recreation program, and I knew there were pictures of him in that archive – I clicked the link to 
