It's you or no one

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It's You Or No One is a film song written by Jule Styne (music) and Sammy Cahn (text) and released in 1948.

background

Doris Day introduced the song in 1948 in her film debut From Romance on the High Seas (directed by Michael Curtiz ) and on record (Columbia 38290). From December 1947, Sarah Vaughan (Musicraft) and Harry James took him on; in the 1950s, versions by Gene Ammons , Hampton Hawes , Tony Scott , Cal Tjader , JJ Johnson , Charlie Mariano , Lurlean Hunter , Jackie McLean , Stu Phillips , Earl Coleman , Don Elliott , Mary Ann McCall , Hazel Scott , Richie Kamuca followed / Bill Holman , Johnny Griffin , Hank Mobley , Max Roach , Lee Konitz , Warne Marsh, and Sonny Stitt . In the field of jazz, the discographer Tom Lord lists 301 cover versions of the song (as of 2017), among which Jazz standards.com the versions by Acker Bilk , Art Blakey , Tal Farlow , Ahmad Jamal , Christian Jacob , Don Patterson and Lennie Tristano stand out.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b basic information at Jazzstandards.com
  2. ↑ It's You or No One
  3. ↑ Tom Santopietro: Considering Doris Day 2008, p. 343
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 25, 2017)