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)

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 Composer(s): 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).

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