The Song Is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)

"The Song is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)" is a popular song composed by Irving Berlin in 1927.

The song's lyric is referenced in Ira Gershwin's verse to "They Can't Take That Away from Me", in the line the song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote, the melody lingers on.

Notable recordings

• Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers (1938)
• Tony Bennett - Bennett/Berlin (1987)
• Earl Bostic And His Orchestra
• Nat King Cole - Just One of Those Things (1957)
• Sam Cooke - My Kind of Blues (1961)
• Bing Crosby - Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love (1968 version)
• Ruth Etting (1927)
• Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958)
• Dizzy Gillespie - The Melody Lingers On (1966)
• Annette Hanshaw (1927)
• Gene Harris - Listen Here (1989)
• Layton & Johnstone (1928)
• Nellie Lutcher (1947)
• Frank Sinatra - All Alone (1962)
• Jeri Southern - Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories (1958)
• Billy Taylor - Billy Taylor with Four Flutes (1959)
• Dinah Washington