BODY AND SOUL
Created on 01/09/2001Latest update on 17/07/2023
Artist: Carroll Gibbons & The Playmates
Author: Johnny Green
Label: HMV
Year: 1929
Leader of the Savoy Hotel Orphans (who ended up in Hollywood). Instrumental piano version. English composition, even while composer Johnny Green and the first performers were Americans.
Covers:
- 1930:
Jack Hylton [vocal version (also for HMV) with Edward Heyman/Robert Sour lyrics; vocal: Pat O'Malley]
- 1930:
- 1930:
Ambrose [vocal: Sam Browne]
- 1930:
- 1930:
Leo Reisman [in Broadway show Broadway Follies; vocal: Frank Luther]
- 1930:
- 1930:
Louis Armstrong [& his Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra]
- 1930:
Paul Whiteman [n°1 US; vocal: Jack Fulton]
- 1930:
Libby Holman [in Broadway revue Three's A Crowd; recording for Brunswick; banned on radio, still n°3 US; when Libby finally introduced this Tin Pan Alley standard on Broadway (October '30), the song had been recorded 22 times; Gertrude Lawrence had it on her setlist by then but never recorded it]
- 1935:
Henry 'Red' Allen [influential jazz version for Vocalion]
- 1935:
- 1937:
- 1938:
Chu Berry [with groundbreaking trumpet solo by Roy Eldridge, highly influential on Dizzy Gillespie]
- 1939:
Coleman Hawkins [on Bluebird, best-known early version, reissued on soundtrack The Color Purple in '86]
- 1939:
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- 1940:
Duke Ellington [with Jimmy Blanton]
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- 1949:
James Moody [for Prestige on the same day as his Moody's Mood For Love]
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- 1952:
Eddie Jefferson [vocalese version of James Moody's interpretation]
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- 1958:
Sonny Rollins [solo]
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- 1979:
Manhattan Transfer [inspired by Eddie Jefferson's version with new lyrics but crediting the original lyricists]
- 1981:
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- 1986:
Dexter Gordon [in film Round Midnight]
- 1990:
- 1990:
Tony Bennett [and in 2011 in duet with Amy Winehouse, her very last performance recorded]
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- 2010:
Johnny Green and Edward Heyman also cowrote Easy Come Easy Go and I Cover The Waterfront.
