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Artist: Ethel Waters
Author: Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler
Label: Columbia
Year: 1933
Introduced in show Cotton Club Parade - Twenty-Second Edition, the first time she faced a white audience. Written for Cab Calloway but he was not around at the time.
Covers:
Leo Reisman Orch. [oldest version on record (Victor); vocal: coauthor Harold Arlen]
Lena Horne [in film Stormy Weather; recorded in '41]
Ramblers Dansorkest [vocal: Tohama]
Connee Boswell [in film Swing Parade Of 1946]
Buddy & Ella Johnson [on 45]
Five Sharps [a mint original on Jubilee makes $10.000!]
Etta James [and in film A Single Man ('09)]
Willie Nelson [with Leon Russell]
Joni Mitchell [covers Don't Worry 'Bout Me on her bigband cd, first done by Calloway as part of the Cotton Club Revue]
Toots Thielemans [with Oleta Adams]
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)