WILLOW WEEP FOR ME

Created on 02/02/2006
Latest update on 28/09/2020

Artist: Paul Whiteman Orch.
Author: Ann Ronell
Label: Victor
Year: 1932

Vocal: Irene Taylor.

Covers:

1932:

Ted Fio Rito [vocal: Muzzy Marcellino]

1939:

Harry James [vocal: Frank Sinatra]

1946:

Stan Kenton

1950:

Vera Ellen [in Marx Brothers film Love Happy as The Sadie Thompson Number]

1950:

Mary Lou Williams

1954:

Billie Holiday

1954:

Lionel Hampton

1954:

Frankie Laine

1954:

Fontane Sisters

1955:

Kenny Clarke [with Cannonball Adderley and Horace Silver]

1955:

Art Tatum

1956:

Harry 'Sweets' Edison [with Ben Webster and Barney Kessel]

1956:

Sidney Bechet

1957:

Duke Ellington

1957:

Muzzy Marcellino [a quarter century since his version with Ted Fio Rito]

1958:

Sarah Vaughan

1958:

Frank Sinatra

1959:

Nina Simone

1959:

Andy Williams

1960:

Coasters

1960:

Rita Reys

1962:

Lou Rawls & Les McCann

1963:

Julie London

1963:

Billy Fury

1964:

Ray Charles

1964:

Chad & Jeremy [top 20 US]

1964:

Sam Cooke

1966:

Alan Price Set

1967:

Nancy Wilson

1967:

Barbra Streisand

1968:

Booker T. & The MG's

1969:

James Brown

1970:

Charlie Musselwhite

1970:

Ella Fitzgerald

1983:

Carmel

1988:

Steve Miller

1991:

Laura Fygi

1995:

Etta James

1997:

Tony Bennett

2004:

Marie-Laure BĂ©raud

2006:

Diana Krall

2007:

Hans Teeuwen

2009:

Iggy Pop

2010:

Maysa

Ann Ronell, one of the few female songwriters who made it in Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley, also wrote the lyrics for Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?

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