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Artist: Gene Krupa
Author: Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer
Label: Okeh
Year: 1941
Vocal: Anita O'Day. Written by two southern boys. Hoagy first came up with this leitmotiv while sketching out some tunes for Young Man With A Horn, a planned Broadway musical around the life and times of his dear late friend and cornet player Bix Beiderbecke. Working title of that theme was Bix Lix ('39).
Covers:
Harry James [vocal: Helen Forrest]
Ray Eberle [with Glenn Miller's Orchestra]
Billy Eckstine [with Earl Hines' Orchestra]
Clovers [B-side of Don't You Know]
Michael Holliday [hit UK]
Paul Desmond [title track lp]
k.d. lang [in film Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, set in coauthor Johnny Mercer's hometown Savannah, GA]
Bob Dylan [while Sinatra never recorded it]
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)