"It Never Entered My Mind" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher,Burlingame, Sandra (ed.). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012. p. 229. Google Books preview. Archived at Web Archive. where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.
Notable recordings Frank Sinatra – Frankly Sentimental (1949) Originally recorded November 5, 1947, 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 (Blue Note 1954) & Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige 1956) Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956) Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster – Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957) Stan Getz – Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957) Jeri Southern – Southern Hospitality (1958) Stan Getz – Jazz Giants '58 Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958) Chet Baker – Chet (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) Oscar Peterson – Another Day (1972) Jackie McLean with the Great Jazz Trio – New Wine in Old Bottles (1978) Keith Jarrett Trio – Standards (1983) Chris Botti – Italia (2007)
Popular culture The Miles Davis recording was used in the following movies: Runaway Bride (1999) and the Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny (1974).
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