Come Rain or Come Shine (song)
Encyclopedia
"Come Rain or Come Shine" is a popular
music
song written by Harold Arlen
with lyrics by Johnny Mercer
. The song was written for the musical St. Louis Woman
, and was published in 1946
.
Recordings were made in 1946 by Sy Oliver
(with the Tommy Dorsey
Orchestra), Dinah Shore
, Helen Forrest
and Dick Haymes
, and Margaret Whiting
. Although the song did not actually make the charts in the period following its publication, it has become a standard.
The Sy Oliver
/Tommy Dorsey
version was recorded on January 31, 1946. The recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number
20-1819.
The Dinah Shore
version was recorded on March 18, 1946. The recording was released by Columbia Records
as catalog number 36971.
The Helen Forrest
/Dick Haymes
version was recorded on April 14, 1946. The recording was released by Decca Records
as catalog number 23548.
The Margaret Whiting
version was recorded on February 17, 1946. The recording was released by Capitol Records
as catalog number 247.
James Booker
performed it live in Zurich in 1977, and the recorded track can be found in the Album New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live!
Billie Holiday
recorded it seven years before she died.
Sarah Vaughan
recorded it for Columbia in 1950 with George Treadwell
and His All-Stars. Treadwell was Vaughan's first husband.
Jo Stafford
recorded the song for two different albums. A recording on Columbia Records
was made on June 27, 1952 and released as catalog number CL 6238, and a recording on Capitol Records
was made on January 4, 1963 and released as an LP entitled The Hits of Jo Stafford (catalog number ST 1921).
Dinah Washington
performed this song on her live album "Dinah Jams
" (1954)
Georgia Gibbs
recorded a version of it in 1955
.
Claire Austin recorded a version on her album When Your Lover Has Gone
on the Bethlehem label (1956).
Judy Garland
recorded the song on March 3, 1956
for her album Judy
, conducted by Nelson Riddle
and released the same year. It also appears on her legendary concert album Judy at Carnegie Hall
.
Ray Charles
recorded the song on his album The Genius of Ray Charles
(November 1959
). This version charted in both 1960 and 1968.
The Bill Evans
trio recorded a jazz instrumental version of the song on December 28, 1959 for inclusion on his LP Portrait in Jazz
. Three other versions are also on his posthumously released "Live at Birdland" sessions performed by the same trio in early 1960
, recorded from a radio broadcast.
The song appears on the 1959
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers album Moanin'
.
Art Pepper
recorded an instrumental version of the song for his 1960
album Intensity
.
Jack Kerouac
recorded the song, which can be found on his album of selected readings and songs, Jack Kerouac Reads 'On the Road' .
Ella Fitzgerald
included her rendition on the Verve
two-record set "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
", 1961.
Richard Rodney Bennett
performs this song on a Harold Arlen compilation issued in 2001.
Frank Sinatra
recorded the song on November 22, 1961 for inclusion on his 1962
LP Sinatra and Strings
. It was released on Reprise Records
as catalog number 27020. This recording is known for its strings and horn arrangements by Don Costa
.
Jack Jones
recorded the song for his 1963 album, Wives and Lovers
.
Petula Clark
covered the song for her 1966 album I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
Liza Minnelli
recorded the song for her third A&M Records
studio album New Feelin'
in 1970.
Johnny Mercer
recorded the song for his 1974 album, My Huckleberry Friend
.
Barbra Streisand
covered the song for her 1979 concept album, Wet
. She sang it live in her 2006 concert, Streisand: Live in Concert 2006.
Dr. John
recorded a solo instrumental take for his 1982 album The Brightest Smile In Town.
Diane Schuur
recorded a version arranged by Dave Grusin
and Johnny Mandel
for her Timeless album of Jazz standards in 1986. This album was awarded a Grammy for "Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female."
Helen Merrill
recorded a duet version with jazz bassist Ron Carter for their collaborative album Duets issued on Emarcy in 1988.
Bette Midler
recorded a version for her film For the Boys
(1991
) soundtrack.
Michael Crawford
included this song in his second album, With Love in 1991.
Frank Sinatra
re-recorded the song in 1993 with Gloria Estefan
, for his album Duets
. That same year, Joe Sample
recorded his version of this song in his album Invitation.
Saxophonist David Sanborn
covered the song from his 1995 album "Pearls."
Don Henley
recorded a version of this song for the 1995
soundtrack to Leaving Las Vegas
.
Dr. John
& Dianne Reeves
recorded a version for Blue Note records
on the soundtrack of Just the Ticket
, 1999.
Eric Clapton
recorded a version of this song with B.B. King for the album Riding with the King released on December 6, 2000.
Katharine McPhee
sang a version on Season 5 of American Idol
and was given rave reviews from the judges.
Franck Amsallem
recorded a version of this song for his 2009 album Amsallem Sings.
TARRIII recorded a reggae version with Njoa pinning down the romantic styling of Billie Holiday
's version.
Marlene Dietrich
has a version wherein she repeats the lyrics in spoken word between sung variations.
Idina Menzel
has done a recording of this song as well. While it does not appear on any album, it was leaked onto the Internet after speculation that it was intended and then dropped from the film soundtrack of The Other Sister
spread.
One of the most recent movie versions was by Alison Eastwood
in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
. The film was set in Savannah, Georgia and the soundtrack was dedicated to songs by Johnny Mercer
, a Savannah native.
A live recording by Rufus Wainwright
appears on his 2007 album, Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
.
Danny Gokey
sang a version on Season 8 of American Idol
and was highly praised by the judges.
Natalie Cole
recorded a version of this song for her 2008 album still unforgettable
.
's 1983 film The King of Comedy
features Ray Charles' recording of the song in its opening credits. Later in the film, the character of Masha (played by Sandra Bernhard
) sings the tune for the kidnapped Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis
) during their "date" as he's being held hostage in her apartment.
Kazuo Ishiguro
's collection of short stories Nocturnes features a story named "Come Rain or Come Shine". The Sarah Vaughan recording is played at the story's climax.
Sylvia Brooks
recorded this song on her Dangerous Liaisons album released in 2009.
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song written by Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...
with lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
. The song was written for the musical St. Louis Woman
St. Louis Woman
St. Louis Woman is a musical by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer based upon the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps. The musical opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on March 30,1946 and ran for 113 performances...
, and was published in 1946
1946 in music
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.
Recordings were made in 1946 by Sy Oliver
Sy Oliver
Melvin "Sy" Oliver was a jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader...
(with the Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
Orchestra), Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...
, Helen Forrest
Helen Forrest
Helen Forrest was one of the most popular female jazz vocalists during America's Big Band era. She was born Helen Fogel to a Jewish family in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1917...
and Dick Haymes
Dick Haymes
Richard Benjamin "Dick" Haymes was an Argentine actor and one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, who was an actor, television host, and songwriter....
, and Margaret Whiting
Margaret Whiting
Margaret Whiting was a singer of American popular music and country music who first made her reputation during the 1940s and 1950s.-Youth:...
. Although the song did not actually make the charts in the period following its publication, it has become a standard.
The Sy Oliver
Sy Oliver
Melvin "Sy" Oliver was a jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader...
/Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
version was recorded on January 31, 1946. The recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number
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20-1819.
The Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...
version was recorded on March 18, 1946. The recording was released by Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
as catalog number 36971.
The Helen Forrest
Helen Forrest
Helen Forrest was one of the most popular female jazz vocalists during America's Big Band era. She was born Helen Fogel to a Jewish family in Atlantic City, New Jersey on April 12, 1917...
/Dick Haymes
Dick Haymes
Richard Benjamin "Dick" Haymes was an Argentine actor and one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, who was an actor, television host, and songwriter....
version was recorded on April 14, 1946. The recording was released by Decca Records
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
as catalog number 23548.
The Margaret Whiting
Margaret Whiting
Margaret Whiting was a singer of American popular music and country music who first made her reputation during the 1940s and 1950s.-Youth:...
version was recorded on February 17, 1946. The recording was released by Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
as catalog number 247.
Recordings after 1946
In no particular order:James Booker
James Booker
James Carroll Booker III was a jazz, New Orleans rhythm and blues and soul musician born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.-Biography:...
performed it live in Zurich in 1977, and the recorded track can be found in the Album New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live!
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
recorded it seven years before she died.
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...
recorded it for Columbia in 1950 with George Treadwell
George Treadwell
George McKinley Treadwell was an American jazz trumpeter....
and His All-Stars. Treadwell was Vaughan's first husband.
Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
recorded the song for two different albums. A recording on Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
was made on June 27, 1952 and released as catalog number CL 6238, and a recording on Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
was made on January 4, 1963 and released as an LP entitled The Hits of Jo Stafford (catalog number ST 1921).
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...
performed this song on her live album "Dinah Jams
Dinah Jams
Dinah Jams is a 1954 live album by vocalist Dinah Washington. Remastered in 1990.-Tracks:#"Lover Come Back to Me"#"Alone Together" #"Summertime" #"Come Rain or Come Shine"#"No More"#"I've Got You Under My Skin"...
" (1954)
Georgia Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
recorded a version of it in 1955
1955 in music
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.
Claire Austin recorded a version on her album When Your Lover Has Gone
When Your Lover Has Gone
"When Your Lover Has Gone" is a 1931 composition by Einar Aaron Swan which, after being featured in the James Cagney film Blonde Crazy that same year, has become a jazz standard. The song was used in the 1991 film, The Rocketeer during the part where Neville Sinclair takes Jenny to The South Seas...
on the Bethlehem label (1956).
Judy Garland
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
recorded the song on March 3, 1956
1956 in music
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for her album Judy
Judy (Judy Garland album)
Judy is a 1956 studio album by Judy Garland, her fourth LP on the Capitol label, arranged by Nelson Riddle. -Track listing:# "Come Rain or Come Shine" # "Just Imagine"...
, conducted by Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle
Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...
and released the same year. It also appears on her legendary concert album Judy at Carnegie Hall
Judy at Carnegie Hall
Judy at Carnegie Hall is a two-record live recording of a concert by Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall in New York.This concert appearance, on the night of April 23, 1961, has been called "the greatest night in show business history". Garland's live performances were big successes at the time and her...
.
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
recorded the song on his album The Genius of Ray Charles
The Genius of Ray Charles
The Genius of Ray Charles is a 1959 album by Ray Charles. In 2003, the album was ranked number 263 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time....
(November 1959
1959 in music
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). This version charted in both 1960 and 1968.
The Bill Evans
Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...
trio recorded a jazz instrumental version of the song on December 28, 1959 for inclusion on his LP Portrait in Jazz
Portrait in Jazz
Portrait in Jazz is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1960.-History:Eight months after his successful collaboration with Miles Davis on the album Kind of Blue, Evans recorded Portrait in Jazz with a new group that helped change the direction of modern jazz.Most noticeably,...
. Three other versions are also on his posthumously released "Live at Birdland" sessions performed by the same trio in early 1960
1960 in music
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, recorded from a radio broadcast.
The song appears on the 1959
1959 in music
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers album Moanin'
Moanin'
Moanin' is a jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, recorded in 1958.This was Blakey's first album for Blue Note in several years, after a period of recording for a miscellany of labels, and marked both a homecoming and a fresh start...
.
Art Pepper
Art Pepper
Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an American alto saxophonist and clarinetist.About Pepper, Scott Yanow of All Music stated, "In the 1950s he was one of the few altoists that was able to develop his own sound despite the dominant influence of Charlie Parker" and: "When Art Pepper...
recorded an instrumental version of the song for his 1960
1960 in music
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album Intensity
Intensity (Art Pepper album)
Intensity is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Dolo Coker, Jimmy Bond and Frank Butler. The album was released in 1963....
.
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...
recorded the song, which can be found on his album of selected readings and songs, Jack Kerouac Reads 'On the Road' .
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
included her rendition on the Verve
Verve Records
Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...
two-record set "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook is a 1961 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Billy May...
", 1961.
Richard Rodney Bennett
Richard Rodney Bennett
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...
performs this song on a Harold Arlen compilation issued in 2001.
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
recorded the song on November 22, 1961 for inclusion on his 1962
1962 in music
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LP Sinatra and Strings
Sinatra and Strings
Sinatra and Strings is a 1962 album by Frank Sinatra. The set of standard ballads is one of the most critically acclaimed works of Sinatra's entire Reprise period.It was Sinatra's first album with arranger Don Costa...
. It was released on Reprise Records
Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...
as catalog number 27020. This recording is known for its strings and horn arrangements by Don Costa
Don Costa
Don Costa was an American pop music arranger and record producer, best known for his work with Frank Sinatra.-Career:...
.
Jack Jones
Jack Jones (singer)
John Allan "Jack" Jones is an American jazz and pop singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s.-Overview:...
recorded the song for his 1963 album, Wives and Lovers
Wives and Lovers
Wives and Lovers is a song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It has been recorded by numerous male and female vocalists, instrumentalists and ensembles. Jack Jones released a recording in 1963, earning the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, and Bacharach included it on the 1965 LP...
.
Petula Clark
Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
covered the song for her 1966 album I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
I Couldn't Live Without Your Love (album)
I Couldn't Live Without Your Love is a Petula Clark album released in the United States and the UK in September 1966. Clark's fifth US album release, I Couldn't Live Without Your Love was the first Petula Clark album to include creative personnel besides Tony Hatch, who produced the album and...
Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli....
recorded the song for her third A&M Records
A&M Records
A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...
studio album New Feelin'
New Feelin'
New Feelin' is the title of Liza Minnelli's third and last studio album for A&M Records. The fourth and last for the label would be a live album released 2 years later...
in 1970.
Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
recorded the song for his 1974 album, My Huckleberry Friend
My Huckleberry Friend
"...My Huckleberry Friend": Johnny Mercer Sings the Songs of Johnny Mercer is an album by singer/composer Johnny Mercer, released in 1974....
.
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
covered the song for her 1979 concept album, Wet
Wet (album)
Wet is an album released by Barbra Streisand in 1979. The album is a concept album of sorts with all the songs referring to, or expressing different interpretations of, water...
. She sang it live in her 2006 concert, Streisand: Live in Concert 2006.
Dr. John
Dr. John
Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...
recorded a solo instrumental take for his 1982 album The Brightest Smile In Town.
Diane Schuur
Diane Schuur
Diane Schuur is an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Deedles", she has won two Grammy Awards, headlined many of the world's most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has toured the world performing with such greats as Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, B. B...
recorded a version arranged by Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin
David Grusin is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy award and 12 Grammys...
and Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...
for her Timeless album of Jazz standards in 1986. This album was awarded a Grammy for "Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female."
Helen Merrill
Helen Merrill
Helen Merrill is an internationally known jazz vocalist.Merrill's recording career has spanned six decades and she is popular with fans of jazz in Japan and Italy as well as in her native United States...
recorded a duet version with jazz bassist Ron Carter for their collaborative album Duets issued on Emarcy in 1988.
Bette Midler
Bette Midler
Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...
recorded a version for her film For the Boys
For the Boys
For the Boys is a 1991 film which tells the story of Dixie Leonard, a 1940s actress/singer who teams up with Eddie Sparks, a famous performer to entertain American troops. The film traces her life through 50 years. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin.The film was adapted by...
(1991
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) soundtrack.
Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford OBE is an English actor and singer. He has garnered great critical acclaim and won numerous awards during his career, which covers radio, television, film, and stagework on both London's West End and on Broadway in New York City...
included this song in his second album, With Love in 1991.
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
re-recorded the song in 1993 with Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
, for his album Duets
Duets (Frank Sinatra album)
Duets is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1993.Recorded near the end of Sinatra's career, it consists of duets between Sinatra and other guest star singers from various genres; Sinatra personally chose the performers...
. That same year, Joe Sample
Joe Sample
Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample is an American pianist, keyboard player and composer.He is one of the founding members of the Jazz Crusaders, the band which became simply The Crusaders in 1971, and remained a part of the group until its final album in 1991 .- Biography :Sample began playing the piano...
recorded his version of this song in his album Invitation.
Saxophonist David Sanborn
David Sanborn
David Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school...
covered the song from his 1995 album "Pearls."
Don Henley
Don Henley
Donald Hugh "Don" Henley is an American singer, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful solo career. Henley was the drummer and lead vocalist for the Eagles from 1971–1980, when the band broke up...
recorded a version of this song for the 1995
1995 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....
soundtrack to Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film directed and written by Mike Figgis, based on a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic who has ended his personal and professional life to drink himself to death in Las Vegas...
.
Dr. John
Dr. John
Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...
& Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves is an American jazz singer. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.-Early life:Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan to a very musical family. Her father, who died when she was two years old, was also a singer. Her mother, Vada Swanson, played trumpet. A cousin, George Duke, is a...
recorded a version for Blue Note records
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
on the soundtrack of Just the Ticket
Just the Ticket (film)
Just the Ticket is a 1999 film starring Andy García and Andie MacDowell. Garcia was also the producer. The movie was originally titled The Ticket Scalper.- Plot :...
, 1999.
Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
recorded a version of this song with B.B. King for the album Riding with the King released on December 6, 2000.
Katharine McPhee
Katharine McPhee
Katharine Hope McPhee is an American pop singer, songwriter, actress, model, and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol in 2006, eventually finishing as the runner-up.Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records...
sang a version on Season 5 of American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
and was given rave reviews from the judges.
Franck Amsallem
Franck Amsallem
Franck Amsallem is a French jazz pianist, composer and also singer. He was born in 1961 in Oran, then in French Algeria, but grew up in Nice, France.He started learning the piano at age 7 and also took up the classical saxophone at the local conservatory...
recorded a version of this song for his 2009 album Amsallem Sings.
TARRIII recorded a reggae version with Njoa pinning down the romantic styling of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
's version.
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
has a version wherein she repeats the lyrics in spoken word between sung variations.
Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel
Idina Kim Menzel is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is widely known for originating the roles of Maureen in Rent and Elphaba in Wicked.-Early life:...
has done a recording of this song as well. While it does not appear on any album, it was leaked onto the Internet after speculation that it was intended and then dropped from the film soundtrack of The Other Sister
The Other Sister
The Other Sister is a 1999 romantic comedy film starring Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Diane Keaton, and Tom Skerritt. Garry Marshall directed the film...
spread.
One of the most recent movie versions was by Alison Eastwood
Alison Eastwood
Alison Eastwood is an American film director, Hollywood actress, fashion model, and fashion designer. She made her directorial debut with Rails & Ties , starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden.-Early life and education:...
in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction work by John Berendt. Published in 1994, the book was Berendt's first, and became a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut....
. The film was set in Savannah, Georgia and the soundtrack was dedicated to songs by Johnny Mercer
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
, a Savannah native.
A live recording by Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...
appears on his 2007 album, Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall is the sixth album by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released through Geffen Records in December 2007. The album consists of live recordings from his sold-out June 14–15, 2006 tribute concerts at Carnegie Hall to the legendary American...
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Danny Gokey
Danny Gokey
Daniel Jay "Danny" Gokey is an American country music singer and church music director from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the third place finalist on the eighth season of American Idol...
sang a version on Season 8 of American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
and was highly praised by the judges.
Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole
Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
recorded a version of this song for her 2008 album still unforgettable
Still Unforgettable
Still Unforgettable is a 2008 studio album by American singer-songwriter and performer Natalie Cole. Cole won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Still Unforgettable at the 51st Grammy Awards.-Background:...
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In popular culture
Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
's 1983 film The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy (1983 film)
The King of Comedy is a 1983 American dark comedy film starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis, and directed by Martin Scorsese. The subject of the movie is celebrity stalking...
features Ray Charles' recording of the song in its opening credits. Later in the film, the character of Masha (played by Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is number 97 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of...
) sings the tune for the kidnapped Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
) during their "date" as he's being held hostage in her apartment.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE or ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese–English novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing...
's collection of short stories Nocturnes features a story named "Come Rain or Come Shine". The Sarah Vaughan recording is played at the story's climax.
Sylvia Brooks
Sylvia Brooks
Sylvia Brooks is an American jazz adult contemporary vocalist and song stylist. Her debut album, Dangerous Liaisons, features songs from the Great American Songbook and Jazz Standards Songbook, and was in rotation on over 500 radio stations throughout the United States and Canada.Born into a...
recorded this song on her Dangerous Liaisons album released in 2009.