The Thrill Is Gone (1931 song)

{{Infobox song|name=The Thrill Is Gone|type=Song|released=1931|genre=Traditional pop, Jazz|composer=Ray Henderson|lyricist=Lew Brown}}

"The Thrill Is Gone" is a popular song composed by Ray Henderson with lyrics by Lew Brown which was first sung by Everett Marshall in the Broadway revue George White's Scandals in 1931.{{Cite web|last=Songfacts|title=The Thrill Is Gone by Rudy Vallée - Songfacts|url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/rudy-vallee/the-thrill-is-gone|access-date=2021-03-18|website=www.songfacts.com|language=en}}

The song was first recorded in 1931 by Rudy Vallée And His Connecticut Yankees on the Victor label.{{Citation|title=Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees – My Song / The Thrill Is Gone (1931, Shellac)|url=https://www.discogs.com/Rudy-Vallee-And-His-Connecticut-Yankees-My-Song-The-Thrill-Is-Gone/release/6922934|language=en|access-date=2021-03-18}} It became a hit at #10 on the charts and was recorded later by many other popular jazz artists throughout the following decades, eventually becoming a jazz standard.{{Cite web|title=Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (The Thrill Is Gone)|url=https://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-7/thethrillisgone.htm|access-date=2021-03-18|website=www.jazzstandards.com}}

After listening to Chet Baker's cover, Elvis Costello became inspired and wrote Almost Blue off the album Imperial Bedroom, trying to capture its "erie" quality.{{Cite book|last=Costello|first=Elvis|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/919068291|title=Unfaithful music & disappearing ink|date=2015|isbn=978-0-399-16725-6|location=New York|pages=390|oclc=919068291}}