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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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Bobby Hutcherson, The Most Relaxing Jazz Standards In The Universe, Denon Records
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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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Keith Jarrett
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Nnenna Freelon
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Philly Joe Jones and Red Garland
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Michael Hackett
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Darice Richman
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Corky Hale, Corky Hale, Lass-Hale Productions, #CD 28064
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Carol Robbins
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Woody Herman and Thundering Herd and The Houston Symphony, Children of Lima, Fantasy Records, F-9477
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Peter Martin
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The Don Thompson Quartet
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Steve Kuhn
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Johnny Mathis
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Double Dozen
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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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Dominique Eade
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Jay Livingston, demo
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The Michael Garson Trio
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Bill Evans, Alone, Verve Records, #833 801-2
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Vivian Lord, Love Dance, Stash Records, ST241
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David Evans
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Melissa Manchester, Livingston & Evans Songbook, Concord Records Inc., FCD-3101-2 , 2002
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Michael Feinstein, Livingston & Evans Songbook, Concord Records, FCD-3101-2, 2002
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Damita Jo
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Ellis Marsalis
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Al Foster and McCoy Tyner
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Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time Vol. # The Resolution of Romance, Columbia, Ck 46143
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Elvin Jones
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Ann Hampton Callaway
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Dinah Washington, Blue Gardenia, UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Sean Jones
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Nat King Cole, The Scarlet Hour soundtrack
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Charlie Watts
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Stacey Kent
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Nat King Cole
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Jon Weber, It's Never Quite the Same, Mood Records, MD-1111, 1998
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Zoot Sims
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Audre Cooper
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Carol Welsman
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Tierney Sutton
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Airlines
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Sherry Williams
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Jacky Terrasson
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William Ash
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Larry Willis
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The Roy Hargrove Quintet, With The Tenors of Our Time
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Cadence
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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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Boz Scaggs, But Beautiful, Jazz Standards Vol.1, Gray Cat Records
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Victor Young
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Diane Schur
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Janis Segal
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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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