BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Created on 20/11/2002
Latest update on 23/10/2020

Artist: Aida Ward
Author: Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler
Year: 1931

In revue Rhythmania in the New York Cotton Club. That's where Arlen & Koehler also cowrote Kickin' The Gong Around and Stormy Weather.

Covers:

1931:

Cab Calloway [first release]

1932:

Louis Armstrong

1932:

Boswell Sisters

1932:

Kate Smith

1935:

Benny Goodman [vocal: Helen Ward]

1936:

Django Reinhardt

1939:

Count Basie

1939:

Frances Langford

1947:

Woody Herman

1952:

Annie Ross

1952:

Joe Turner

1954:

Mary Lou Williams

1955:

Ella Fitzgerald

1955:

Herbie Mann

1956:

Cannonball Adderley

1957:

Bing Crosby

1957:

Modern Jazz Quartet

1958:

Perry Como

1962:

Thelonious Monk

1964:

Tony Bennett

1966:

Oscar Peterson

1993:

Diana Krall

1999:

Chris Rea

2002:

George Harrison [at the end of posthumous cd Brainwashed; bootlegged on Pirate Songs (1995)]

2006:

Anita O'Day

2006:

Toots Thielemans [with Madeleine Peyroux]

2010:

Preservation Hall Jazz Band [vocal: Paolo Nutini]

2013:

Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette

2020:

Loudon Wainwright III

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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