You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To is a song from the 1943 musical film Something to Shout About , which was sung in a duet by Don Ameche and Janet Blair . Cole Porter composed it (music and text) as early as 1942. In 1944 , it was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Song category .
Dinah Shore recorded the song in 1942 and landed a hit with it. In 1943 Frank Sinatra added the song to his repertoire. Through him it became a popular jazz standard of swing and later modern jazz . Of the more recent recordings, the version by Helen Merrill on her Clifford-Brown homage Brownie is noteworthy.
Important recordings
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (1964)
- Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1959)
- Frank Sinatra - A Swingin 'Affair! (1957)
- Mel Tormé - An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982)
- Nina Simone - Nina Simone at Newport (1960)
- Jim Hall - Concierto (1975)
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 4th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Web links
- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To Frank Sinatra - The Main Event