The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD

Artist: Duke Ellington
Author: Duke Ellington
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1935

Top 20 US. In '63 a version along with John Coltrane (Impulse).

Covers:

1936:: Benny Goodman [top 20 US]
1936:: Mills Brothers [top 20 US; vocal version; lyrics: Manny Kurtz/Irving Mills]
1948:: Billy Eckstine
1954:: Art Tatum
1956:: Sonny Rollins
1957:: Ella Fitzgerald
1958:: Toots Thielemans
1958:: Harpo Marx [on harp]
1961:: Sarah Vaughan
1977:: Kenny Burrell
1985:: Cassandra Wilson
1989:: Chet Baker
1989:: Dr. John [album title track]
1989:: Dianne Reeves
1990:: Johnny Mathis
1992:: Billy Joel
1994:: Roberta Flack
1996:: Charlie Watts
1999:: Tony Bennett
2001:: Larry Coryell
2005:: Philip Catherine [with Brussels Jazz Orch.]
2007:: Judy Niemack
2018:: Chick Corea

Simon Carmiggelt used Ellington's version under his VARA television Kronkels.

IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD