You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
| "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Janet Blair and Don Ameche | |
| Released | 1943 |
| Songwriter(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. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1943 but lost out to "You'll Never Know".
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
- Dinah Shore (1942) [1]
- Six Hits and a Miss (1943)[2]
- Noël Coward - single (1945)
- Helen Merrill - Helen Merrill (with Clifford Brown) (1954)
- Phil Woods - Do it Yourself Jazz (Signal) (Savoy)
- 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)
- Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney recorded the song for their radio show in 1958[3] and it was subsequently released on the CD Bing & Rosie - The Crosby-Clooney Radio Sessions (2010).[4]
- Paul Chambers - Bass on Top (1958)
- Chet Baker - Chet (1958/59)
- The Coasters - One By One (1960)[5]
- Nina Simone - Nina Simone at Newport (1960)
- Jo Stafford - Jo + Jazz (1960)
- Lee Konitz - Motion (1961)
- Gene Ammons - The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons (1961)
- Bobby Timmons - Sweet and Soulful Sounds
- Milt Jackson - Big Bags (1962)
- 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 - with Chet Baker and Paul Desmond (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)
- John Abercrombie and Don Thompson on 1991 album Witchcraft.
- 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
- ↑ https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/dinah_shore/youd_be_so_nice_to_come_home_to___manhattan_serenade/
- ↑ "Six Hits and a Miss Songs". Music VF. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ↑ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
- ↑ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
- ↑ The Coasters, One By One Retrieved February 22, 2012
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