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| Recording History |
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Jane Monheit
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Mark Murphy
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Shirley Horn, May The Music Never End, UMG Recordings, Inc.
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The Nelson Riddle Orchestra
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Bobby Hutcherson, The Most Relaxing Jazz Standards In The Universe, Denon Records
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Carol Ohmart, The Scarlet Hour soundtrack
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Ahmad Jamal, I Remember Duke, Hoagy and Strayhorn, Telarc International, Inc.
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Rebecca Parris
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Dinah Washington, Blue Gardenia, UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Keith Jarrett
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Philly Joe Jones and Red Garland
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Nnenna Freelon
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Charlie Watts
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Darice Richman
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Michael Hackett
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Carol Robbins
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Jon Weber, It's Never Quite the Same, Mood Records, MD-1111, 1998
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Corky Hale, Corky Hale, Lass-Hale Productions, #CD 28064
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Zoot Sims
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Peter Martin
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Woody Herman and Thundering Herd and The Houston Symphony, Children of Lima, Fantasy Records, F-9477
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Carol Welsman
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Tierney Sutton
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Steve Kuhn
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Johnny Mathis
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Sherry Williams
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Cleo Laine, Cleo at Carnegie The 10th Anniversary Concert, DRG CDXP 2101
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Charles McPherson
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Jacky Terrasson
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Larry Willis
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Jay Livingston, demo
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The Michael Garson Trio
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Nancy Wilson, Ballads, Blues & Big Bands, The Best of Nancy Wilson, Capitol CDP, 7243 8 34886 2 9
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The Roy Hargrove Quintet, With The Tenors of Our Time
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Vivian Lord, Love Dance, Stash Records, ST241
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Melissa Manchester, Livingston & Evans Songbook, Concord Records Inc., FCD-3101-2 , 2002
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Victor Young
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Boz Scaggs, But Beautiful, Jazz Standards Vol.1, Gray Cat Records
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Damita Jo
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Ellis Marsalis
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The Don Thompson Quartet
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Diane Schur
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Elvin Jones
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Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time Vol. # The Resolution of Romance, Columbia, Ck 46143
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Double Dozen
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Janis Segal
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Sean Jones
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Ann Hampton Callaway
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Dominique Eade
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David Evans
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Stacey Kent
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Nat King Cole, The Scarlet Hour soundtrack
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Bill Evans, Alone, Verve Records, #833 801-2
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Airlines
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Nat King Cole
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Michael Feinstein, Livingston & Evans Songbook, Concord Records, FCD-3101-2, 2002
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Al Foster and McCoy Tyner
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Audre Cooper
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William Ash
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Cadence
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| Highlights |
- Written for the 1956 Paramount Pictures film The Scarlet Hour, starring Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance and Elaine Stritch, directed by Michael Curtiz.
- A woman and her lover plan her husband's untimely demise in this little-known gem of a film noir.
- Widely considered to be the last example of a classic film noir film.
- This film was a relatively bold experiment for a mid-1950s Paramount release, used a series of experimental Fujinon lenses which allowed for filming at reduced light levels given their larger than normal apertures.
- This was Elaine Stritch's film debut.
- Tom Tryon later became a writer and wrote several science fiction, horror and mystery novels of note.
- Nat King Cole performs this song in the film during a nightclub scene.
- UCLA is known to have a rare 16mm print of this film.
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| WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON |
| COPYRIGHT 1956 |
| Lyrics |
Never let me go!
Love me much too much!
If you let me go
Life would lose its touch!
What would I be without you?
There's no place for me without you!
Never let me go!
I'd be so lost if you went away.
There'd be a thousand hours in the day
Without you, I know!
Because of one caress my world was overturned
At the very start; all my bridges burned
By my flaming heart! You'd never leave me, would you?
You couldn't hurt me, could you?
Never let me go!
Never let me go!
Never let me go!
I'd be so lost if you went away.
There'd be a thousand hours in the day
Without you, I know!
Because of one caress my world was overturned
At the very start; all my bridges burned
By my flaming heart! You'd never leave me, would you?
You couldn't hurt me, could you?
Never let me go!
Never let me go!
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| NEVER LET ME GO As sung by Nat King Cole in the Paramount Picture The Scarlet Hour Famous Music Corp., 1956. Music and Words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Special Picture Release) |
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