The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - THANKS FOR THE MEMORY

Artist: Bob Hope & Shirley Ross
Author: Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger
Year: 1937

In film The Big Broadcast Of 1938, Bob Hope's silver screen debut. The song won an Oscar. When Hope & Ross became a couple and separated shortly thereafter this song became like their themesong.

Covers:

1937:: Dorothy Lamour [in that same film]
1937:: Benny Goodman
1937:: Shep Fields
1938:: Mildred Bailey
1944:: Coleman Hawkins
1952:: Stan Getz
1954:: Erroll Garner
1955:: Ella Fitzgerald
1956:: Bud Shank
1959:: Platters
1960:: Frank Sinatra
1961:: Ramsey Lewis
1966:: Anita O'Day
1977:: Lee Konitz
1979:: Weather Report
1988:: Harry Nilsson
2001:: Dave Van Ronk
2001:: Stacey Kent
2005:: Rod Stewart

Leo Robin also wrote the lyrics to Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend and with this same Ralph Grainger he cowrote Blue Hawaii (see there).

THANKS FOR THE MEMORY

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