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Little Girl Blue (song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Little Girl Blue'" is a popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, published in 1935.Jacobs, Dick & Harriet Jacobs Who Wrote That Song? published by Writers Digest Books, 1993, The song was introduced by Gloria Grafton in the Broadway musical 'Jumbo'.Green, Stanley - Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre published by Dodd, Mead, 1976
Film appearances
*1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo - sung by Doris Day
*1990 The Handmaid's Tale
Recordings
Many popular and jazz artists have recorded the tune, including:
*The Afghan Whigs
*Louis Armstrong
*Chet Baker
*Polly Bergen - 'Little Girl Blue' (1955)
*Donald Byrd - 'Byrd in Flight' (Blue Note 1960)
*Ann Hampton Callaway - 'To Ella with Love' (1996)
*The Carpenters - 'Lovelines' (1989)
*Rosemary Clooney - 'Rosemary Clooney Sings Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein' (1990)
*Sam Cooke - 'My Kind of Blues' (1961)
*Doris Day - 'Billy Rose's Jumbo' (1962)
*Ethel Ennis - 'Eyes for You' (1964)
*Ella Fitzgerald - 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook' (1956)
*The Four Freshmen - 'Love Lost' (2004)
*Judy Garland - 'Alone' (1957)
*Red Garland - 'A Garland of Red' (Prestige 1956)
*Grant Green - 'Oleo' with Sonny Clark
*Eddie Harris - 'Exodus to Jazz'
*Johnny Hartman - 'And I Thought About You' (1959)
*Coleman Hawkins - 'Body and Soul' (1956)
*The Hi-Lo's
*Milt Jackson - 'Reverence and Compassion' (1993)
*Harry James
*Joni James
*Keith Jarrett - 'Standards in Norway'
*Janis Joplin - 'I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!' (1969, although the lyrics on this version were rearranged)
*Morgana King
*Diana Krall - 'From This Moment On' (2006)
*Stacey Kent - 'Dreamsville' (2001)
*Brenda Lee - 'Reflections in Blue' (1964)
*John Lewis - 'The John Lewis Piano' (1957)
*Hank Mobley - 'Mobley's Message' (Prestige 1956)
*Gerry Mulligan with Jon Eardley - 'California Concerts' (1954)
*Laura Mvula - 'Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave' (2013)
*Anita O'Day - 'Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart' (1960)
*Oscar Peterson - 'My Favorite Instrument' (solo piano)
*The Postal Service (a remix of the Nina Simone version)
*Sue Raney - 'Sue Raney, Volume II' (2004)
*Linda Ronstadt - 'For Sentimental Reasons' (1986)
*Diana Ross - 'Touch Me in the Morning' (1973)
*Mathilde Santing
*Carly Simon - 'My Romance (1990)
*Nina Simone (whose 1958 debut album 'Little Girl Blue' was named after the song)
*Frank Sinatra - 'Songs for Young Lovers' (1954)
*Sarah Vaughan - 'Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows' (1958)
*Margaret Whiting - this charted briefly in 1947
*Nancy Wilson - 'Hello Young Lovers' (1962)
References
Category:Songs from Rodgers and Hart musicals
Category:Songs with music by Richard Rodgers
Category:Songs with lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Category:1935 songs
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