The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

Artist: Julie London
Author: Arthur Hamilton
Label: Liberty
Year: 1955

Written in '53 to be sung by Ella Fitzgerald in film Pete Kelly's Blues ('55), but left out. Two other songs by Hamilton (He Needs Me and Sing A Rainbow) made the screen as sung by Peggy Lee. The rejected song was later featured in the film The Girl Can't Help It ('56), title track written by Bobby Troup, not by chance, the husband of the singer who made the first recording.

Covers:

1955:: Dexter Gordon
1957:: Claude Bolling [as Pleure]
1959:: Dinah Washington
1961:: Ella Fitzgerald
1962:: Sam Cooke
1963:: Barbra Streisand
1964:: Ray Charles
1965:: Marie Knight
1965:: Jack McDuff
1965:: Shirley Bassey
1965:: Jackie Opel [reggae]
1966:: Steampacket
1966:: Hu & The Hilltops [hit NL]
1967:: Lorraine Ellison
1968:: Indios Tabajaras
1970:: Joe Cocker [it was Leon Russell's idea to turn this torch song into a gospel rocker]
1971:: Sonny Stitt
1977:: Joan Baez
1980:: Sylvester
1982:: Crystal Gayle
1982:: Aerosmith
1983:: Helen Shapiro
1983:: Mari Wilson
1985:: Viktor Lazlo [as Pleurer des rivières]
1987:: Skin
1999:: Günther Neefs
1999:: Harry Connick Jr.
2001:: Brad Mehldau
2001:: Diana Krall
2001:: Etta James
2003:: Richard Thompson [on 1000 Years Of Popular Music]
2003:: Aaron Neville
2004:: Alison Moyet
2008:: Helmut Lotti
2008:: Sarah Bettens [on Never Say Goodbye, cut live in 2006 with Tom Kestens; sold exclusively after shows]
2009:: Michael Bublé
2009:: Susan Boyle
2011:: Jeff Beck [with Imelda May]
2012:: Georgie Fame

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