There Will Never Be Another You
There Will Never Be Another You is a pop song written by Mack Gordon (lyrics) and Harry Warren (music) and released in 1942.
background
The composition is in the song form A-B1-A-B2 and in a through -characteristic; The A part of There Will Never Be Another You contains two longer sequences with rising quarter notes. The B parts more or less reverse this with three falling sequences of quarter notes. This creates the all-encompassing impression of rising and falling, mitigated by brief changes of direction, but without a real bridge .
First recording and reception history
There Will Never Be Another You was sung by John Payne and Joan Merrill in the film Iceland (1942). In the same year, Woody Herman and His Orchestra took it on, which reached # 23 on the US charts with its Decca recording in 1942. In the following year, Sammy Kaye and his orchestra also made it into the American charts (# 20, band singer was Nancy Norman). From the 1950s onwards, There Will Never Be Another You appeared in numerous other cover versions in jazz and swing , making the song a popular jazz standard ; the discographer Tom Lord lists 720 versions of the song. He took him alone in the 1950s and a. the Lionel Hampton Big Band, Sonny Stitt (1950), Lester Young / Oscar Peterson and Stan Getz (1952), also Art Tatum , Marian McPartland (1953), Jimmy Raney , Chet Baker with a vocal version (1954), and Buddy Collette , Max Roach , Lennie Tristano , Anita O'Day and Lee Konitz , in Europe Flavio Ambrosetti , Tubby Hayes , Bobby Jaspar , Hans Koller , Rita Reys , René Thomas , Eje Thelin , Maurice Vander , Putte Wickman and Barney Wilen . In later years u. a. also Michel Petrucciani (1985), Riccardo Del Fra (1988), David S. Ware (1991), Alexander von Schlippenbach (1992), Nils Landgren (1993), Jeanne Lee (1993), Dave Liebman (1996) and Matthew Shipp ( 2001) of the standard.