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Artist: Leslie Hutchinson
Author: Jack Strachey/Eric Maschwitz
Label: Parlophone
Year: 1936

Introduced by Dorothy Dickson in the British musical comedy Spread It Abroad, but first cut by Hutchinson months before at the piano. Coauthor Eric Maschwitz (signing under alias Holt Maxwell) was script writer for the BBC and co-wrote A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (see there).

Covers:

1936:: Roy Fox
1936:: Savoy Orpheans
1936:: Lew Stone
1936:: Madge Elliott & Cyril Ritchard [in Broadway version]
1936:: Benny Goodman [vocal: Helen Ward; n°1 US]
1936:: Billie Holiday [with Teddy Wilson; top 5 US]
1936:: Carroll Gibbons [top 10 US]
1936:: Rudy Vallee
1936:: Benny Carter
1936:: Jean Sablon [as Ces petites choses]
1941:: George Shearing
1944:: Bing Crosby
1944:: King Cole Trio
1946:: Frank Sinatra [freewheeling lyrically about Bing Crosby]
1948:: Lester Young
1952:: Stan Getz
1953:: Five Keys
1953:: Art Pepper
1953:: Lee Konitz [with Gerry Mulligan]
1953:: Billy Ward & The Dominoes
1954:: Lionel Hampton
1954:: Thelonious Monk
1954:: Art Tatum
1955:: Sammy Davis Jr.
1956:: Johnny Griffin Orch.
1957:: Dave Brubeck
1957:: Jo Stafford
1957:: Tony Bennett
1957:: Mel Tormé
1957:: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
1957:: Bobby Troup
1958:: Dinah Shore
1959:: Connie Francis
1960:: Five Satins
1962:: Etta James
1962:: Duprees
1962:: Chet Baker
1963:: James Brown
1963:: Sam Cooke
1969:: Soft Machine [motiv in Pataphysical Introduction - Pt II]
1973:: Bryan Ferry
1990:: Jane Birkin & Jimmy Rowles [in film Daddy Nostalgie]
1993:: Aaron Neville
1993:: Ronnie Milsap
1994:: Oleta Adams
1995:: Chris Farlowe
1996:: Michael Bublé
2002:: Rod Stewart
2005:: Rick Astley
2015:: Cassandra Wilson
2016:: Brad Mehldau Trio
2017:: Bob Dylan

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THESE FOOLISH THINGS (REMIND ME OF YOU)

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