Artist: Frances Langford
Author: Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields
Label: Paramount
Year: 1935
Introduced it in film Every Night At Eight; her recording for Brunswick followed Little Jack Little's and Bob Crosby's.
Covers:
Little Jack Little [n°1 US; first recording (Columbia), sung by him]
James Moody [his sax solo and a mid-song piano break by Thore Swanerud, live in Stockholm, inspired Eddie Jefferson for a vocal version as Moody's Mood For Love ('52), making history]
King Pleasure [n°2 R&B as Moody's Mood For Love (extra vocal: Blossom Dearie); Pleasure had heard Eddie Jefferson sing his version live at the Cincinnati Cotton Club]
Tommy Dorsey [idem]
Louis Prima [with Keely Smith]
Lord Tanamo [ska version]
Georgie Fame [as Moody's Mood For Love]
George Benson [as Moody's Mood For Love on hit album Give Me The Night (vocal: Blossom Dearie)]
Van Morrison [idem; like King Pleasure elaborating on James Moody's version]
Jools Holland [with Jamiroquai, copying Lord Tanamo's version]
Amy Winehouse [as Moody's Mood For Love, bonus track cd Frank]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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