LAZY RIVER

Created on 25/10/2000
Latest update on 15/02/2024

Artist: Hoagy Carmichael
Author: Hoagy Carmichael/Sidney Arodin
Label: Victor
Year: 1930

With Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey and Joe Venuti. In '46 in film The Best Years Of Our Lives. First hit handled by BMI.

Covers:

1931:

Louis Armstrong

1934:

Joe Venuti [vocal and trumpet: Louis Prima]

1935:

Nat Gonella

1936:

Louis Prima

1939:

Casa Loma Orch.

1940:

Sidney Bechet

1941:

Mills Brothers

1941:

Benny Goodman

1956:

Four Lads

1956:

Gene Vincent

1960:

Kay Starr

1961:

Si Zentner [NARAS award]

1961:

Bobby Darin

1961:

Annie Cordy [as Hop dans la rivière]

1964:

Sammy Davis Jr.

1981:

George Shearing [the last version Hoagy heard before his death]

1991:

Harry Connick Jr.

2000:

Rickie Lee Jones

2001:

Michael Bublé

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