NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE, A

Created on 28/04/2003
Latest update on 05/03/2026

Artist: Savoy Orpheans
Author: Manning Sherwin/Eric Maschwitz/Jack Strachey
Year: 1940

Introduced by Judy Campbell in British musical New Faces. While she sang it, her future husband Lieutenant Commander David Birkin was in the house and the rest is history: she broke with coauthor Eric Maschwitz to become Jane Birkin's mother.

Covers:

1940:

Ambrose

1940:

Glenn Miller [top 3 US]

1940:

Vera Lynn [also in London revue New Faces]

1940:

Ray Noble [top 10 US]

1941:

Sammy Kaye

1941:

Guy Lombardo [top 3 US]

1955:

Anita O'Day

1960:

Nat King Cole

1962:

Frank Sinatra

1962:

Bobby Darin

1966:

Brook Benton

1967:

New Vaudeville Band

1981:

Manhattan Transfer

1990:

Harry Connick Jr.

1992:

Tony Bennett

1994:

Brian Setzer Orch.

2003:

Ian Hunter

2004:

Rod Stewart

2015:

Kinky Friedman

2019:

Tori Amos

2022:

Michael Bublé

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