I'm through with love

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I'm Through with Love (also I'm Thru with Love ) is a pop song written by Fud Livingston , Matty Malneck (music) and Gus Kahn (lyrics) and published in 1931.

Musicians Fud Livingston and Matty Malneck wrote the ballad I'm Through with Love with songwriter Gus Kahn; it remained the only cooperation of the three. The song was first recorded in 1931 by Henry Busse and His Orchestra for Victor , and the following year by Bing Crosby for Brunswick Records . Bert Ambrose played it with his orchestra on July 15, 1931 in England (HMV 6049, vocals: Sam Browne and Ella Logan ). The song made a comeback in 1959 when Marilyn Monroe interpreted it in Some Like It Hot (directed by Billy Wilder ). Also, Nat King Cole , Etta Jones and Lorez Alexandria had him. During this time in their repertoire Keith Jarrett recorded it in 1998 and appeared on The Melody at Night, with You .

According to Jazzstandards.com, the versions by Bing Crosby, Kurt Elling , Ella Fitzgerald , Diana Krall , Carmen McRae and Dinah Washington are particularly noteworthy . The song was also used in the Woody Allen film Everyone Says I Love You (1996), sung by Natalie Portman , Alan Alda , Edward Norton , Goldie Hawn and Woody Allen himself, accompanied by Dick Hyman and a studio band.

Individual evidence

  1. a b basic information at Jazzstandards.com
  2. I'm Thru with Love at Woody Allen Pages