MEMORIES OF YOU

Created on 24/06/2007
Latest update on 10/03/2015

Artist: Minto Cato
Author: Eubie Blake/Andy Razaf
Year: 1930

In all-black revue Lew Leslie's Blackbirds Of 1930, cowritten by Andy Razaf. She was Andy's sweetheart. The tune was inspired by Edward MacDowell's 1896 piano sketch To A Wild Rose.

Covers:

1930:

Ethel Waters [first recording for Columbia]

1930:

Duke Ellington [vocal: Dick Robertson]

1930:

Louis Armstrong

1939:

Benny Goodman

1939:

Glen Gray

1940:

Ink Spots

1949:

Anita O'Day

1951:

Zoot Sims

1955:

Art Tatum

1956:

Thelonious Monk

1956:

Benny Goodman [with Rosemary Clooney]

1956:

Carmen Déziel [as Souvenirs de vous]

1957:

Charles Mingus

1982:

Robert Wyatt [B-side of Shipbuilding]

2000:

Willy Claes Quartet

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