Little Girl Blue (song)

"Little Girl Blue"
Song
Published	1935
Composer(s)	Richard Rodgers
Lyricist(s)	Lorenz Hart
Audio example
"Little Girl Blue" by Nina Simone (2013 – Remaster)" on YouTube

"Little Girl Blue" is a popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, published in 1935.[1] The song was introduced by Gloria Grafton in the Broadway musical Jumbo.[2]

Film appearances

• 1950 The Jackpot
• 1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo – sung by Doris Day
• 1990 The Handmaid's Tale
• 2022 Saint Omer – sung by Nina Simone

Recordings

Many popular and jazz artists have recorded the tune, including:

• The Afghan Whigs
• Chet Baker
• Polly Bergen – Little Girl Blue (1955)
• Donald Byrd – Byrd in Flight, as "Little Boy Blue": (Blue Note 1960)[3]
• Ann Hampton Callaway – To Ella with Love (1996)[4]
• Sam Cooke – My Kind of Blues (1961)[5]
• Doris Day – Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)[6]
• Ethel Ennis – Eyes for You (1964)[7]
• Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956)[8]
• Judy Garland – Alone (1957)[9]
• Red Garland – A Garland of Red (Prestige 1956)[10]
• The Four Freshmen – Love Lost (1959)[11]
• Johnny Hartman – And I Thought About You (1959)[12]
• The Hi-Lo's
• Milt Jackson – Reverence and Compassion (1993)
• Harry James
• Joni James – Little Girl Blue (1956)[13]
• Keith Jarrett – Standards in Norway
• Janis Joplin – I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969, although the lyrics on this version were rearranged)
• Morgana King
• Diana Krall – From This Moment On (2006)[14]
• Stacey Kent – Dreamsville (2001)[15]
• Brenda Lee – Reflections in Blue (1964)[16]
• Grant Green – Oleo with Sonny Clark
• Eddie Harris – Exodus to Jazz
• John Lewis – The John Lewis Piano (1957)[17]
• Hank Mobley – Mobley's Message (Prestige 1956)[18]
• Gerry Mulligan with Jon Eardley – California Concerts (1954)[19]
• Anita O'Day – Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960)[20]
• Oscar Peterson – My Favorite Instrument (solo piano)[21]
• The Postal Service (a remix of the Nina Simone version)
• Sue Raney – Sue Raney, Volume II (2004)
• Linda Ronstadt – For Sentimental Reasons (1986)[22]
• Diana Ross – Touch Me in the Morning (1973)[23]
• Mathilde Santing
• The Carpenters – Lovelines (1989)[24]
• Rosemary Clooney – Rosemary Clooney Sings Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein (1990)[25]
• Carly Simon – My Romance (1990)[26]
• Nina Simone (whose 1958 debut album Little Girl Blue was named after the song)[27]
• Frank Sinatra – Songs for Young Lovers (1954)[28]
• Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)[29]
• Margaret Whiting – this charted briefly in 1947[30]
• Nancy Wilson - Hello Young Lovers (1962)[31]
• Pinky Winters – Pinky (1954)
• Louis Armstrong – Pops Is Tops-The Verve Studio Albums (2018)[32]
• Laura Mvula – Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave (2013)

References

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