It Never Entered My Mind

"It Never Entered My Mind"
Song from Higher and Higher
Published	1940
Writer(s)	Lorenz Hart
Composer(s)	Richard Rodgers

"It Never Entered My Mind" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher (1940), where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.

Notable recordings

Frank Sinatra - Frankly Sentimental (1949) Originally recorded November 5, 1947,^[1] In the Wee Small Hours (1955), She Shot Me Down (1981)
Patty Andrews (with Gordon Jenkins and orchestra) (1951)
Julie London - Julie Is Her Name (1955)
Miles Davis - Miles Davis, Volume 3 (1954) & Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1956)
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956)
Bud Powell - Bud Powell's Moods (1956)
Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
Jeri Southern - Southern Hospitality (1958)
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)
Chet Baker - Chet (1959)
Barbara Cook - Barbara Cook Sings "From the Heart" (1959)
Joni James - 100 Strings and Joni (1959)
Stan Getz - Cool Velvet: Stan Getz and Strings (1960)
Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960)
Chris Connor - Double Exposure with Maynard Ferguson (1961), Warm Cool: The Atlantic Years (2000)
June Christy - The Intimate Miss Christy (1963)
Rosemary Clooney - Love (1963)
Johnny Hartman - The Voice That Is!! (1964)
Jack Jones - Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Leontyne Price - Right as the Rain (1967)
Oscar Peterson - Another Day (Oscar Peterson album) (1972)
Jackie McLean with the Great Jazz Trio - New Wine in Old Bottles (1978)
Keith Jarrett Trio - Standards (1983)
Larry Coryell - Comin' Home (1984)^[2]
Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle - Lush Life (1984)
George Shearing - Grand Piano (album) (1985)
Susannah McCorkle - Ballad Essentials (2002)
Beegie Adair - "Centennial Composers: Richard Rodgers" (2003)
Mark Murphy - Once to Every Heart (2005)
Chris Botti - Italia (2007) ^[3]
Lisa Donna - "Like Someone in Love"

The *Miles Davis recording was used in the movies *Runaway Bride (1999) and the Lenny Bruce biopic *Lenny (1974).

References

Rodgers and Hart

Musicals	The Garrick Gaieties Dearest Enemy The Girl Friend Peggy-Ann A Connecticut Yankee Present Arms Ever Green Simple Simon America's Sweetheart Jumbo On Your Toes Babes in Arms I'd Rather Be Right The Boys from Syracuse I Married an Angel Too Many Girls Higher and Higher Pal Joey By Jupiter

Songs	"Manhattan" "Mountain Greenery" "Here in My Arms" "Blue Room" "My Heart Stood Still" "Thou Swell" "To Keep My Love Alive" "You Took Advantage of Me" "With a Song in My Heart" "A Ship Without a Sail" "Dancing on the Ceiling" "Ten Cents a Dance" "He Was Too Good to Me" "I've Got Five Dollars" "Isn't It Romantic?" "Lover" "Mimi" "Blue Moon" "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "My Romance" "Little Girl Blue" "There's a Small Hotel" "Glad to Be Unhappy" "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" "Where or When" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "My Funny Valentine" "Johnny One Note" "The Lady Is a Tramp" "Have You Met Miss Jones?" "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" "Spring Is Here" "Falling in Love with Love" "This Can't Be Love" "Sing for Your Supper" "I Like to Recognize the Tune" "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" "Give It Back to the Indians" "You're Nearer" "It Never Entered My Mind" "I Could Write a Book" "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" "Ev'rything I've Got" "Wait till You See Her"

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