It Never Entered My Mind è un celebre brano jazz composto nel 1940 da Richard Rodgers, con testo di Lorenz Hart.

Storia Il brano venne presentato nel musical di Rodgers & Hart Higher and Higher a Broadway nel 1940, in cui veniva eseguita da Shirley Ross. È stata resa celebre da Frank Sinatra, che la incise nel 1947 e la incluse nell'album Frankly Sentimental del 1949.

Versioni Frank Sinatra - Frankly Sentimental (1949) - In the Wee Small Hours (1955) - She Shot Me Down (1981) Julie London - Julie Is Her Name (1955) Miles Davis - 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 e Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957) Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958) Jeri Southern - Southern Hospitality (1958) Chet Baker - Chet (1959) Barbara Cook - Barbara Cook Sings "From the Heart" (1959) Joni James - 100 Strings and Joni (1959) Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960) Stan Getz - Cool Velvet (1960) Chris Connor e Maynard Ferguson - Double Exposure (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 (1972) Jackie McLean e Great Jazz Trio - New Wine in Old Bottles (1978) Keith Jarrett - Standards (1983) Linda Ronstadt e Nelson Riddle - Lush Life (1984) Larry Coryell - Comin' Home (1984) Susannah McCorkle - Ballad Essentials (2002) Mark Murphy - Once to Every Heart (2005) Chris Botti - Italia (2007)

È inoltre presente nei film Lenny di Bob Fosse del 1974 e Se scappi, ti sposo di Garry Marshall del 1999.

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