Exactly Like You (song)
"Exactly Like You" is a popular song, with music written by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and published in 1930. The song was introduced by Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence in the 1930 Broadway show Lew Leslie's International Revue which also featured McHugh and Fields's "On the Sunny Side of the Street".[1]
Recorded versions
- Gene Ammons (1961)
- Martha Tilton (1946)
- Louis Armstrong (1930)[2]
- Svend Asmussen
- Tony Bennett
- Acker Bilk
- Don Byas with Thelonious Monk (1941)[2]
- Cab Calloway (1945)
- Elsie Carlisle
- Casa Loma Orchestra (1930)[2]
- Nat King Cole, Absolutely Essential Collection (2009)
- John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette (1957)
- Eddie Condon (1944)
- Sam Cooke
- Count Basie (1937)[2]
- Bing Crosby, Bing with a Beat (1957)
- Bob Crosby
- Cass Daley
- Vic Damone
- Lenny Dee, Dee-Lightful! (1955)
- Tommy Dorsey
- Duane Eddy (1963)
- Ruth Etting (1930)
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Aretha Franklin, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (1962)
- Red Garland (1958)
- Erroll Garner, Plays Misty: Original Recordings 1953–1954 (1954)
- Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, Diz and Getz (1953)[2]
- Benny Goodman with Lionel Hampton) (1936)[2]
- Glen Gray (1930)
- Coleman Hawkins
- Ted Heath
- Woody Herman
- Earl Hines
- Hot Club of Cowtown
- Harry James
- Etta Jones and Houston Person (1980)
- Diana Krall, From This Moment On (2006)[2]
- Sam Lanin Orchestra with Smith Ballew (1930)
- The Masakowski Family, N.O. Escape [3]
- Dave McKenna, Live at Maybeck Recital Hall Volume 2 (1989)[2]
- Carmen McRae (1954)
- Ramsey Lewis (1961)
- Willie Nelson
- Anita O'Day (1975)
- Patti Page (1949)
- Oscar Peterson
- Duffy Power
- Louis Prima (1950)
- Rebirth Brass Band
- Sue Raney, Songs for a Raney Day (2010)
- Don Redman (1937)
- Django Reinhardt (1937)[2]
- Harry Richman (1930)
- Duke Robillard (1987)
- Nina Simone, Nina Simone at Town Hall (1959)
- Frank Sinatra
- Kay Starr (1969)
- Mel Tormé
- Doris Troy (1970)
- Sarah Vaughan, Passing Strangers (2009)
- Andy Williams (1963)
Other appearances
- 1956 The Eddy Duchin Story - the Technicolor film biopic of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. Played as dance music on Eddy's first night at the Central Park Casino.[4]
- 1971 It was famously performed by Tom Jones on The Morecambe & Wise Show with Eric and Ernie as backing singers ("Yeah Yeah Yeah!").
- 1979 Sugar Babies - featured in Act 2 of this musical revue.
- 1982 The song was featured in the opening credits of the black comedy film Eating Raoul.
Notes
- ↑ "Exactly Like You" at Jazz Standards - retrieved on 8 June 2009
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
- ↑ Milano, Brett (8 February 2017). "The Masakowski Family, "N.O. Escape"". OffBeat Magazine. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
- ↑ "Internet Movie Database". imdb.com. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
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