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You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

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Published
  
1943

Writer(s)
  
Cole Porter

"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1943 film Something to Shout About, where it was introduced by Janet Blair and Don Ameche. Dinah Shore had a major hit with the song at the time of its introduction. Diane Keaton performed the song in Woody Allen's movie Radio Days.

Notable recordings

  • Six Hits and a Miss (1943)
  • Noël Coward - single (1945)
  • Helen Merrill - Helen Merrill (with Clifford Brown) (1954)
  • Rita Reys - The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956)
  • Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
  • Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957)
  • Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair! (1957)
  • Chet Baker - Chet (1958/59)
  • The Coasters - One By One (1960)
  • Nina Simone - Nina Simone at Newport (1960)
  • Jo Stafford - Jo + Jazz (1960)
  • Lee Konitz - Motion (1961)
  • Nancy Wilson - Hollywood – My Way (1963)
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (1964) with Tommy Flanagan on piano and Roy Eldridge on trumpet
  • Julie London - By Myself (1965)
  • Cilla Black - Cilla (1965)
  • Jim Hall - Concierto (1975)
  • Mel Tormé - An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982)
  • Miki Matsubara - Blue Eyes (1984)
  • Billy Eckstine/Helen Merrill - Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter (1986)
  • Susannah McCorkle - Easy to Love—The Songs of Cole Porter (1996)
  • Andy Bey - Ballads, Blues & Bey (1996)
  • John Barrowman - John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter (2004)
  • Coco d'Or - Coco d'Or (2004)
  • Beat Kaestli - Happy, Sad and Satisfied (2005)
  • Tony DeSare - Last First Kiss (2007)
  • Chris Gillespie - Portraits Of Porter (2013)
  • Eltjo Haselhoff - Delovely Guitar (2007)
  • Mika Nakashima - Eien no Uta (2007)
  • Sarah Vaughan

    • References

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