FOOLS RUSH IN (WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD)

Created on 15/01/2003
Latest update on 03/11/2023

Artist: Bob Crosby Orch.
Author: Johnny Mercer/Rube Bloom
Label: Decca
Year: 1940

Vocal by Marion Mann. Johnny Mercer & Rube Bloom also cowrote Day In-Day Out, also first recorded by Bob Crosby. Actually Fools Rush In was based on Rube Bloom's instrumental Shangri-La, cut by Les Brown for Bluebird in '39.

Covers:

1940:

Kay Kyser

1940:

Mildred Bailey

1940:

Tony Martin

1940:

Tommy Dorsey [vocal: Frank Sinatra]

1940:

Glenn Miller

1941:

Anne Shelton [with the Bert Ambrose Orch.]

1947:

Billy Eckstine

1947:

Jo Stafford

1953:

Stan Getz

1956:

Julie London

1957:

Louis Armstrong

1959:

Teresa Brewer

1960:

Brook Benton

1961:

Four Freshmen

1962:

Sammy Davis Jr.

1962:

Al Hirt

1962:

Etta James

1962:

Brenda Lee [in a Brook Benton way]

1963:

Rick Nelson [with James Burton on guitar]

1963:

Lesley Gore

1964:

Dean Martin

1964:

Julie London

1964:

Rob de Nijs [as Als Een Dwaas]

1966:

Johnny Hartman

1971:

Elvis Presley

1980:

Bow Wow Wow [cassette release]

1997:

Rosemary Clooney [in film Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil]

1998:

Stacey Kent

Contact


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

Arnold Rypens
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