LADY IS A TRAMP, THE

Created on 12/02/2001
Latest update on 17/05/2023

Artist: Henry King
Author: Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart
Label: Decca
Year: 1937

Introduced by Mitzi Green in Broadway musical Babes In Arms, along with more Rogers & Hart classics-to-be: My Funny Valentine (also by Mitzi Green) and Where Or When (by Ray Heatherton & Mitzi Green).

Covers:

1937:

Tommy Dorsey [vocal: Edythe Wright]

1937:

Joe Rines [for Brunswick]

1937:

Sophie Tucker

1937:

Willie Farmer [vocal: Shirley Brown]

1948:

Lena Horne [in film Words And Music]

1952:

Anita O'Day

1953:

Chet Baker

1956:

Frank Sinatra [and in '57 in film Pal Joey with Rita Hayworth as Tramp]

1957:

Ella Fitzgerald

1957:

Claude Bolling [as La Vie mondaine]

1960:

Carl Perkins [the jazz man]

1961:

Buddy Greco

1967:

Supremes

1969:

Hildegard Knef [with her nice german accent]

1973:

Alice Cooper

1974:

Gerry Mulligan

1974:

Diana Ross

1976:

Rita Hovink [as Ik Wil Een Man Uit Belgique]

1992:

Tony Bennett

2008:

Lily Allen

2008:

Hans Teeuwen

2011:

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

2012:

Jools Holland

2018:

Trisha Yearwood

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