UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG

Created on 28/11/2000
Latest update on 05/11/2023

Artist: Ethel Waters
Author: Alberta Nichols/Mann Holliner
Year: 1931

As Till The Real Thing Comes Along in revue Rhapsody In Black, but never recorded by her.

Covers:

1936:

Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds Of Joy [swing band from Kansas City; first on Columbia and three weeks later on Decca with cleaned up lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin; vocal by Pha Terrel; n°1 US]

1936:

Fats Waller

1936:

Jan Garber

1941:

Ink Spots

1941:

Erskine Hawkins

1942:

Billie Holiday

1945:

Johnny Moore's Three Blazers

1947:

Ravens

1947:

Jane Russell

1953:

Billy Ward & The Dominoes

1959:

Big Maybelle

1960:

Nat King Cole

1963:

Aretha Franklin

1967:

Ernie K-Doe

1973:

Sandy Denny

1984:

Frank Sinatra

2000:

Victoria Williams

2003:

Rod Stewart

2003:

Julien Clerc [as Avant qu'on aille au fond des choses]

2008:

Natalie Cole

Contact


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