I COVER THE WATERFRONT

Created on 18/12/2000
Latest update on 13/03/2024

Artist: Eddy Duchin Orch.
Author: Edward Heyman/Johnny Green
Label: Victor
Year: 1933

Trailer for the film I Cover The Waterfront. Eddy was Leo Reisman's piano player; such a key bandleader in his own right he became the subject for biopic The Eddy Duchin Story. Ben Bernie introduced the song on radio. Top 3 US.

Covers:

1933:

Abe Lyman & His Californians [vocal: Grace Barrie]

1933:

Connie Boswell

1933:

Joe Haymes [top 20 US]

1941:

Billie Holiday [with Teddy Wilson]

1941:

Louis Armstrong

1943:

Nelly Verschuur [with the Dick Willebrandtse Orch.]

1947:

Sarah Vaughan

1949:

Artie Shaw

1955:

Art Tatum

1957:

Frank Sinatra

1958:

Sam Cooke

1959:

Jimmy Smith

1959:

Tony Bennett

1960:

Kay Starr

1966:

John Lee Hooker [as The Waterfront and in '90 with Van Morrison and Booker T Jones; his versions are considerably different from the original one, apart from the lyrics]

1981:

Bobby Bland

1990:

Carol Grimes & Ian Shaw

2014:

Catherine Russell

2014:

Annie Lennox

2017:

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau

See also: Body And Soul.

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