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It Never Entered My Mind

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"'It Never Entered My Mind'" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical 'Higher and Higher', where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.

Notable recordings



*Frank Sinatra 'Frankly Sentimental' (1949) Originally recorded November 5, 1947, 'In the Wee Small Hours' (1955), 'She Shot Me Down' (1981)

*Patty Andrews (with Gordon Jenkins and orchestra) (1951)

*Julie London 'Julie Is Her Name' (1955)

*Miles Davis 'Miles Davis, Volume 3' (Blue Note 1954) & 'Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet' (Prestige 1956)

*Ella Fitzgerald 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook' (1956)

*Bud Powell 'Bud Powell's Moods' (1956)

*Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster 'Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster' (1957)

*Stan Getz 'Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House' (1957)

*Jeri Southern 'Southern Hospitality' (1958)

*Stan Getz 'Jazz Giants '58'

*Sarah Vaughan 'Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows' (1958)

*Chet Baker 'Chet' (1959)

*Barbara Cook 'Barbara Cook Sings "From the Heart" ' (1959)

*Joni James '100 Strings and Joni' (1959)

*Stan Getz 'Cool Velvet: Stan Getz and Strings' (1960)

*Anita O'Day 'Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960)

*Chris Connor 'Double Exposure' with Maynard Ferguson (1961), 'Warm Cool: The Atlantic Years' (2000)

*June Christy 'The Intimate Miss Christy' (1963)

*Rosemary Clooney 'Love' (1963)

*Johnny Hartman 'The Voice That Is!!' (1964)

*Jack Jones 'Where Love Has Gone' (1964)

*Patty Waters 'College Tour' (1966)

*Leontyne Price 'Right as the Rain' (1967

*Oscar Peterson 'Another Day' (1972)

*Jackie McLean with the Great Jazz Trio 'New Wine in Old Bottles' (1978)

*Keith Jarrett Trio 'Standards' (1983)

*Larry Coryell 'Comin' Home' (1984)

*Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle 'Lush Life' (1984)

*George Shearing 'Grand Piano (album)' (1985)

*Susannah McCorkle 'Ballad Essentials' (2002)

*Beegie Adair 'Centennial Composers Collection' (2003)

*Mark Murphy 'Once to Every Heart' (2005)

*Hugh Masekela 'Almost Like Being in Jazz' (2005)

*Chris Botti 'Italia' (2007)

*Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - 'The Capitol Studios Sessions' (2018)

*Steve Nelson- 'Brothers Under the Sun' (2017)

Popular Culture



*The Miles Davis recording was used in the movies:

*'Runaway Bride' (1999)

*Lenny Bruce biopic 'Lenny' (1974).

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References



Category:Songs with music by Richard Rodgers

Category:Songs with lyrics by Lorenz Hart

Category:Ella Fitzgerald songs

Category:1940 songs

Category:Songs from Rodgers and Hart musicals

Category:1940s jazz standards


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