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Artist: Glenn Miller Orch.
Author: Harry Warren/Mack Gordon
Label: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1942
Top 10 US. Vocal: Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke & The Modernaires (Victor). The year before as a short instrumental in film Sun Valley Serenade, but sung first by Ray Eberle & Lynn Bari in film Orchestra Wives, about the tribulations of a band on the road. Drawing a portrait of Glenn Miller's orchestra, not even knowing their tragic destiny: two years later Miller's private plane crashed during a European tour.
Covers:
Ray Anthony [top 3 US]
Chet Baker [with Jimmy Giuffre and Max Roach]
Etta James [top 3 R&B]
Jesse James [top 30 R&B]
Diane Schuur [duet with B.B. King]
Joan Osborne [in film The Other Sister]
Cyndi Lauper [title track cd]
Beyoncé [as Etta James in film Cadillac Records]
Leela James [as a tribute to Etta James (not related)]
Beatrice van der Poel [as 't Is Waar]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)