THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC

Created on 19/12/2000
Latest update on 21/11/2023

Artist: Johnny Johnson
Author: Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer
Label: Paramount
Year: 1942

In propaganda film Star Spangled Rhythm and inspired by Johnny Mercer's mediated love affair with Judy Garland.

Covers:

1943:

Freddie Slack

1943:

Charlie Barnet

1943:

Glenn Miller

1944:

Bing Crosby [in film Here Come The Waves]

1946:

Frank Sinatra [and in '61 in a swing arrangement]

1947:

Tiny Grimes

1950:

Spike Jones

1954:

Lionel Hampton

1956:

Marilyn Monroe [in film Bus Stop]

1956:

Sammy Davis Jr.

1958:

Clovers

1958:

Louis Prima & Keely Smith

1961:

Bobby Rydell

1962:

Platters

1963:

Chaussettes Noires [as Ce diable noir; translated by Charles Aznavour]

1966:

Tom Jones

1982:

James White & The Contortions

1997:

Kevin Spacey [on the OST of film Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil]

1998:

Ray Davies

2000:

Holly Cole

2000:

Vassar Clements

2000:

Jane Horrock & Robbie Williams [with Ray Gelato's Giants]

2006:

Dr. John

2006:

Toots Thielemans

2010:

Rod Stewart

2016:

Bob Dylan

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