TENDERLY
Created on 19/04/2006Latest update on 02/05/2024
Artist: Dick Farney
Author: Walter Gross/Jack Lawrence
Label: Majestic
Year: 1947
Brazilian crooner in the US (real name: Farnesio Dutra) with the Paul Baron Orchestra. Jack Lawrence also wrote the words to If I Didn't Care, Yes My Darling Daughter and What's Your Story Morning Glory. Writers assembled by Margaret Whiting, but she never recorded it.
Covers:
- 1947:
Sarah Vaughan [with George Treadwell's Orchestra on Musicraft]
- 1947:
Randy Brooks [instrumental]
- 1948:
Clark Dennis [with the Walter Gross Trio]
- 1949:
- 1949:
- 1950:
Walter Gross [coauthor, later also in film Torch Song]
- 1950:
Lynn Hope Quintet [instrumental R&B hit]
- 1951:
Rosemary Clooney [theme song and millionseller]
- 1952:
- 1952:
- 1952:
- 1952:
- 1953:
- 1953:
- 1953:
- 1954:
Nat King Cole [hit UK]
- 1955:
- 1955:
Chet Atkins [later in film Playing By Heart]
- 1956:
Ella Fitzgerald [and in '58 in film The Tender Game]
- 1956:
Louis Armstrong [with Ella Fitzgerald]
- 1958:
- 1959:
- 1959:
- 1959:
- 1959:
- 1960:
- 1960:
- 1960:
- 1961:
- 1964:
- 1968:
- 1979:
- 1989:
- 1990:
- 1999:
- 2002:
- 2010:
- 2015:
- 2016:
Stacey Kent [title track lp]
