Artist: Julie London
Author: Arthur Hamilton
Label: Liberty
Year: 1955
Written in '53 to be sung by Ella Fitzgerald in film Pete Kelly's Blues ('55), but left out. Two other songs by Hamilton (He Needs Me and Sing A Rainbow) made the screen as sung by Peggy Lee. The rejected song was later featured in the film The Girl Can't Help It ('56), title track written by Bobby Troup, not by chance, the husband of the singer who made the first recording.
Covers:
Claude Bolling [as Pleure]
Jackie Opel [reggae]
Hu & The Hilltops [hit NL]
Joe Cocker [it was Leon Russell's idea to turn this torch song into a gospel rocker]
Viktor Lazlo [as Pleurer des rivières]
Richard Thompson [on 1000 Years Of Popular Music]
Sarah Bettens [on Never Say Goodbye, cut live in 2006 with Tom Kestens; sold exclusively after shows]
Jeff Beck [with Imelda May]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)