MY WOMAN
Created on 01/09/2003Latest update on 02/03/2026
Artist: Lew Stone & The Monseigneur Band
Author: Bing Crosby/Irving Wallman/Max Wartell
Label: Decca
Year: 1932
Vocal by Al Bowlly. Trumpet by Nat Gonella. B-side of Junk Man Blues. Reissued on the soundtrack of Dennis Potter's BBC TV series Pennies From Heaven.
Covers:
- 1996:
White Town [Gonella's trumpet riff sampled under intro Your Woman; n°1 UK]
- 1998:
Mark van Dale [house DJ with same sample]
- 2010:
Wiley feat. Emeli Sande [as Never Be Your Woman]
- 2020:
Dua Lipa [clear influence of White Town's hit on Love Again]
Coauthor Bing Crosby cut My Woman first that year, for Brunswick, but for The Originals it's Nat Gonella's trumpet sample from Lew Stone's version that caused the covers.
