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| Recording History |
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Jane Monheit
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Mark Murphy
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The Nelson Riddle Orchestra
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Shirley Horn, May The Music Never End, UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Carol Ohmart, The Scarlet Hour soundtrack
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Dinah Washington, Blue Gardenia, UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Bobby Hutcherson, The Most Relaxing Jazz Standards In The Universe, Denon Records
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The Don Thompson Quartet
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Charlie Watts
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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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Double Dozen
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Jon Weber, It's Never Quite the Same, Mood Records, MD-1111, 1998
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Keith Jarrett
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Dominique Eade
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Carol Welsman
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Philly Joe Jones and Red Garland
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Nnenna Freelon
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Sherry Williams
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Bill Evans, Alone, Verve Records, #833 801-2
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Darice Richman
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Michael Hackett
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Larry Willis
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David Evans
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Carol Robbins
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Corky Hale, Corky Hale, Lass-Hale Productions, #CD 28064
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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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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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Michael Feinstein, Livingston & Evans Songbook, Concord Records, FCD-3101-2, 2002
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Al Foster and McCoy Tyner
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Victor Young
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Steve Kuhn
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Ann Hampton Callaway
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Zoot Sims
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Johnny Mathis
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Cleo Laine, Cleo at Carnegie The 10th Anniversary Concert, DRG CDXP 2101
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Tierney Sutton
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Nat King Cole, The Scarlet Hour soundtrack
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Charles McPherson
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Jay Livingston, demo
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The Michael Garson Trio
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Vivian Lord, Love Dance, Stash Records, ST241
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Nat King Cole
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Jacky Terrasson
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Melissa Manchester, Livingston & Evans Songbook, Concord Records Inc., FCD-3101-2 , 2002
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Damita Jo
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Audre Cooper
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The Roy Hargrove Quintet, With The Tenors of Our Time
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Ellis Marsalis
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Elvin Jones
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Boz Scaggs, But Beautiful, Jazz Standards Vol.1, Gray Cat Records
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Airlines
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Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time Vol. # The Resolution of Romance, Columbia, Ck 46143
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Diane Schur
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Sean Jones
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William Ash
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Janis Segal
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Stacey Kent
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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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