Down with Love (song)
Down with Love is a pop song written by Harold Arlen (music) and EY Harburg (lyrics) and released in 1937.
background
Arlen and Yarburg wrote Down with Love for Kay Thompson , the song in the Broadway - Musical Hooray for What! but was replaced by Vivian Vance before the premiere . The song was best known in the United States through the later cover versions of Judy Garland and Bobby Darin .
First recordings and later cover versions
The musicians who covered the song in the United States from October 1937 included Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (aka The Clambake Seven ; Victor, with singer Edythe White ). The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 55 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. from 1942 by Lee Wiley / Eddie Condon , Sylvia Sims , Bobby Short , Diahann Carroll , Jeri Southern / Marty Paich , Blossom Dearie , Ellis Larkins , David Allyn , Susannah McCorkle , George Melly , Julie Wilson ( Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook , 1989) and Curtis Stigers . Even Barbra Streisand (1963) coverte the song.