SWEET AND LOVELY

Created on 20/01/2004
Latest update on 03/11/2022

Artist: Gus Arnheim Orch.
Author: Gus Arnheim/Harry Tobias/Jules Lemare
Label: Victor
Year: 1931

Westcoast pianist with Jimmie Grier (sax) and future actor Fred MacMurray (sax & clarinet). Later Woody Herman and Stan Kenton joined in. Vocal: Donald Novis.

Covers:

1931:

Bing Crosby

1931:

Russ Columbo [his theme song]

1931:

Guy Lombardo

1931:

Al Bowlly

1940s:

Stan Kenton

1948:

Dexter Gordon

1952:

Thelonious Monk [in '57 feat. John Coltrane in his quartet]

1953:

Dizzy Gillespie [with strings]

1954:

Erroll Garner

1955:

Gerry Mulligan

1956:

Lee Konitz

1958:

Ella Fitzgerald

1958:

Bill Doggett

1959:

Joe Zawinul

1960:

Flamingos

1961:

Bill Evans

1961:

Ahmad Jamal

1962:

Nino Tempo & April Stevens

1966:

Cliff Bennett

1967:

Toots Thielemans

1969:

James Moody [on album Sweet And Lovely]

1996:

Tiny Tim

1999:

Bryan Ferry

1999:

Lew Tabackin

2008:

Chick Corea & Gary Burton

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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