Little Girl Blue (song)
{{Infobox song
| name = Little Girl Blue
| cover =
| alt =
| type = song
| written =
| published = 1935
| writer =
| composer = Richard Rodgers
| lyricist = Lorenz Hart
| misc = {{External music video|header=Audio example|{{YouTube|5t5IJAIkuUs|"Little Girl Blue" by Nina Simone (2013 – Remaster)"}}}}
}}
"Little Girl Blue" is a popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, published in 1935.Jacobs, Dick & Harriet Jacobs – ‘’Who Wrote That Song?’’ published by Writer’s Digest Books, 1993, The song was introduced by Gloria Grafton in the Broadway musical Jumbo.Green, Stanley – ‘’Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre’’ published by Dodd, Mead, 1976
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:
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- The Afghan Whigs
- Chet Baker
- Polly Bergen – Little Girl Blue (1955)
- Donald Byrd – Byrd in Flight, as "Little Boy Blue": (Blue Note 1960){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/byrd-in-flight-mw0000611197|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 21, 2023}}
- Ann Hampton Callaway – To Ella with Love (1996){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/to-ella-with-love-mw0000077862|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 22, 2023}}
- Sam Cooke – My Kind of Blues (1961){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/my-kind-of-blues-mw0000848370|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 23, 2023}}
- Doris Day – Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/billy-roses-jumbo-mw0000010403|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 24, 2023}}
- Ethel Ennis – Eyes for You (1964){{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/3924203-Ethel-Ennis-Eyes-For-You|website=discogs.com|date=1964 |accessdate=June 25, 2023}}
- Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000691511|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 26, 2023}}
- Judy Garland – Alone (1957){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/alone-mw0000201504|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 28, 2023}}
- Red Garland – A Garland of Red (Prestige 1956){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-garland-of-red-mw0000263595|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 29, 2023}}
- The Four Freshmen – Love Lost (1959){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/love-lost-mw0000859070|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 27, 2023}}
- Johnny Hartman – And I Thought About You (1959){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000024388|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 30, 2023}}
- The Hi-Lo's
- Milt Jackson – Reverence and Compassion (1993)
- Harry James
- Joni James – Little Girl Blue (1956){{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/4210163-Joni-James-Little-Girl-Blue|website=discogs.com|accessdate=June 29, 2023}}
- 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){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/from-this-moment-on-mw0000778468|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=July 1, 2023}}
- Stacey Kent – Dreamsville (2001){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/dreamsville-mw0000004856|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=July 3, 2023}}
- Brenda Lee – Reflections in Blue (1964){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/reflections-in-blue-mw0000746468|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 29, 2023}}
- Grant Green – Oleo with Sonny Clark
- Eddie Harris – Exodus to Jazz
- John Lewis – The John Lewis Piano (1957){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-john-lewis-piano-mw0000894199|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=July 2, 2023}}
- Hank Mobley – Mobley's Message (Prestige 1956){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mobleys-message-mw0000758267|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=July 1, 2023}}
- Gerry Mulligan with Jon Eardley – California Concerts (1954){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/california-concerts-vol-1-mw0000194211|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 30, 2023}}
- 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=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 24, 2023}}
- Oscar Peterson – My Favorite Instrument (solo piano){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000317864|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 28, 2023}}
- The Postal Service (a remix of the Nina Simone version)
- Sue Raney – Sue Raney, Volume II (2004)
- Linda Ronstadt – For Sentimental Reasons (1986){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/for-sentimental-reasons-mw0000195537|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 27, 2023}}
- Diana Ross – Touch Me in the Morning (1973){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/touch-me-in-the-morning-mw0000191532|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 26, 2023}}
- Mathilde Santing
- The Carpenters – Lovelines (1989){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lovelines-mw0000201997|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 26, 2023}}
- Rosemary Clooney – Rosemary Clooney Sings Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein (1990){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sings-rodgers-hart-hammerstein-mw0000207686|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 25, 2023}}
- Carly Simon – My Romance (1990){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/my-romance-mw0000203937|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 24, 2023}}
- Nina Simone (whose 1958 debut album Little Girl Blue was named after the song){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/little-girl-blue-mw0000192853|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 23, 2023}}
- Frank Sinatra – Songs for Young Lovers (1954){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-for-young-lovers-mw0000851214|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 22, 2023}}
- Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sarah-vaughan-sings-broadway-great-songs-from-hit-shows-mw0000124954|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 21, 2023}}
- Margaret Whiting – this charted briefly in 1947{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/454 454]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/454}}
- Nancy Wilson - Hello Young Lovers (1962){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hello-young-lovers-mw0000853095|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 20, 2023}}
- Pinky Winters – Pinky (1954)
- Louis Armstrong – Pops Is Tops-The Verve Studio Albums (2018){{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/pops-is-tops-the-verve-studio-albums-mw0003128507|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 28, 2023}}
- Laura Mvula – Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave (2013)
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References
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{{Rodgers and Hart}}
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Category:Songs from Rodgers and Hart musicals
Category:Songs with music by Richard Rodgers
Category:Songs with lyrics by Lorenz Hart
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