Violets for Your Furs

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"Violets for Your Furs" is a 1941 song written by Matt Dennis with words by Tom Adair.

The song describes the wearing of violets with furs on an evening in Manhattan.

Selected recordings

Frank Sinatra — Songs for Young Lovers (1954)

Beverly Kenney — Come Swing with Me (1956)

John Coltrane — Coltrane (1957)

Jutta Hipp — Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1957)

Billie Holiday — Lady in Satin (1958)

Shirley Horn — Violets for Your Furs (1981)

Stacey Kent — Dreamsville (2001)

Johnny Hartman — The Tokyo Albums (2005)

Barry Manilow — In the Swing of Christmas (2007)

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