THANKS FOR THE MEMORY

Created on 12/03/2002
Latest update on 16/11/2022

Artist: Bob Hope & Shirley Ross
Author: Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger
Year: 1937

In film The Big Broadcast Of 1938, Bob Hope's silver screen debut. The song won an Oscar. When Hope & Ross became a couple and separated shortly thereafter this song became like their themesong.

Covers:

1937:

Dorothy Lamour [in that same film]

1937:

Benny Goodman

1937:

Shep Fields

1938:

Mildred Bailey

1944:

Coleman Hawkins

1952:

Stan Getz

1954:

Erroll Garner

1955:

Ella Fitzgerald

1956:

Bud Shank

1959:

Platters

1960:

Frank Sinatra

1961:

Ramsey Lewis

1966:

Anita O'Day

1977:

Lee Konitz

1979:

Weather Report

1988:

Harry Nilsson

2001:

Dave Van Ronk

2001:

Stacey Kent

2005:

Rod Stewart

Leo Robin also wrote the lyrics to Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend and with this same Ralph Grainger he cowrote Blue Hawaii. (see there)