I couldn't sleep a wink last night

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I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night is a song by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Harold Adamson (lyrics) released in 1943.

The songwriting team McHugh and Adamson, who had hit the war song Comin 'In on a Wing and a Prayer the previous year , wrote "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" for the 1944 film Higher and Higher, directed by Tim Whelan , with Michèle Morgan , Jack Haley and Frank Sinatra in the lead roles. Frank Sinatra introduces the song in the film. I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night received an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1945 .

The song title I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night goes back to an expression in the English language, translated as I could n't sleep a night last night . In the lyrics of the song, the lover complains that he “couldn't sleep because of this ridiculous argument” last night. He believed all night that his "heart was breaking," and he knew that his beloved was sorry and he was too.

Sinatra's recording of the song was released on Columbia 36687 (coupled with A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening ). Was covered I Could not Sleep a Wink Last Night 1943 by Woody Herman and His Orchestra (Decca 71498) and Sonny Dunham , still in the 1940s u. a. by Count Basie Orchestra , Glenn Miller , Tommy Dorsey , Louis Armstrong , Dinah Shore (Victor 20-1562, coupled with Now I Know ) and the Ames Brothers (RCA Victor). In the 1950s, Urbie Green ( Jimmy McHugh in Hi-Fi , 1958) and Oscar Peterson ( Jimmy McHugh Songbook 1959) recorded the song. The singer Bob Dylan interpreted it on his Great American Songbook collection Triplicate (2017).

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 380481936

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs - 100 Years of American Popular Music - The Stories of the Creators and Performers . New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005 ISBN 1-57912-448-8 ) p. 275
  2. ^ The 1945 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
  3. ↑ Christine Ammer: The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition , p. 411
  4. ↑ Song I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night Lyrics in MetroLyrics
  5. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 19, 2014)