It Never Entered My Mind

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{{Short description|Show tune from the 1940 musical Higher and Higher}}

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"It Never Entered My Mind" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher, where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.

Notable recordings

Frank Sinatra – Frankly Sentimental (1949) Originally recorded November 5, 1947,{{Cite web|url=http://songbook1.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/it-never-entered-my-mind/|title = It Never Entered My Mind|date = 25 October 2010}} In the Wee Small Hours (1955), She Shot Me Down (1981)
Patty Andrews (with Gordon Jenkins and orchestra) (1951)
Julie London – Julie Is Her Name (1955)
Miles Davis – Miles Davis, Volume 3 (Blue Note 1954) & Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige 1956)
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956)
Bud Powell – Bud Powell's Moods (1956)
Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster – Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
Stan Getz – Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957)
Jeri Southern – Southern Hospitality (1958)
Stan Getz – Jazz Giants '58
Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)
Chet Baker – Chet (1959)
Barbara Cook – Barbara Cook Sings "From the Heart" (1959)
Joni James – 100 Strings and Joni (1959)
Stan Getz – Cool Velvet: Stan Getz and Strings (1960)
Anita O'Day – Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/anita-oday-and-billy-may-swing-rodgers-and-hart-mw0000687483|website=www.allmusic.com|accessdate=July 3, 2024}}
Chris Connor – Double Exposure with Maynard Ferguson (1961), Warm Cool: The Atlantic Years (2000)
June Christy – The Intimate Miss Christy (1963)
Rosemary Clooney – Love (1963)
Johnny Hartman – The Voice That Is!! (1964)
Jack Jones – Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Oscar Peterson – Another Day (1972)
Jackie McLean with the Great Jazz Trio – New Wine in Old Bottles (1978)
Keith Jarrett Trio – Standards (1983)
Chris Botti – Italia (2007){{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r1187619|pure_url=yes}}|title=Italia overview|work=Allmusic.com}}

==Popular culture==

The Miles Davis recording was used in the following movies: Runaway Bride (1999) and the Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny (1974).

Fargo season 04 end credits was used in Better Call Saul.

References

Category:Songs with music by Richard Rodgers

Category:Songs with lyrics by Lorenz Hart

Category:Ella Fitzgerald songs

Category:1940 songs

Category:Songs from Rodgers and Hart musicals

Category:1940s jazz standards