EXACTLY LIKE YOU

Created on 10/12/2002
Latest update on 20/03/2024

Artist: Roger Wolfe Kahn
Author: Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1930

With Scrappy Lambert. Introduced on Broadway by Harry Richman & Gertrude Lawrence in the (unrecorded) International Revue; see also: On The Sunny Side Of The Street. Same composers Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh cowrote I Can't Give You Anything But Love and I'm In The Mood For Love (see there).

Covers:

1930:

Ruth Etting [Broadway musical queen who's life was filmed (Love Me Or Leave Me, with Doris Day as Ruth)]

1936:

Django Reinhardt

1936:

Benny Goodman [vocal: Lionel Hampton]

1937:

Don Redman

1949:

Artie Shaw

1954:

Sarah Vaughan

1958:

Sidney Bechet

1959:

Nina Simone

1969:

Duffy Power

1970:

Doris Troy

1986:

Duke Robillard

1997:

Dianne Reeves

2000:

Hot Club Of Cowtown

2002:

Tony Bennett & k.d. lang

2006:

Diana Krall

2010:

Cécile McLorin Salvant

2013:

Kermit Ruffins

Also cut by Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz, Stephane Grappelli, Coleman Hawkins, Helen Humes, Marvin Gaye, Richard 'Groove' Holmes, Willie Nelson and Johnny Guitar Watson.

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