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It Never Entered My Mind

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Published
  
1940

Composer(s)
  
Richard Rodgers

Writer(s)
  
Lorenz Hart

"It Never Entered My Mind" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher (1940), 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 (1954) & Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (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)
  • Jeri Southern - Southern Hospitality (1958)
  • 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)
  • Leontyne Price - Right as the Rain (1967)
  • Oscar Peterson - Another Day (Oscar Peterson album) (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: Richard Rodgers" (2003)
  • Mark Murphy - Once to Every Heart (2005)
  • Chris Botti - Italia (2007)
  • Fay Claassen - Rhythms & Rhymes (2001)
  • Lisa Donna - "Like Someone in Love"

    • The *Miles Davis recording was used in the movies *Runaway Bride (1999) and the Lenny Bruce biopic *Lenny (1974).

    References

    It Never Entered My Mind Wikipedia
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