Sweet Lorraine

"Sweet Lorraine" is a popular song by Cliff Burwell (music) and Mitchell Parish (lyrics) that was published in 1928 and has since become a jazz standard. It has been recorded by many artists, including Rudy Vallee in 1928, Teddy Wilson in 1935, and Nat King Cole in 1940.^[1]

Notable recordings

Rudy Vallée and Cliff Burwell, piano (Victor, June 1928, test recording)^[2]
Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra (Vocalion Records 1207, August 23, 1928)^[3]^[4]
Isham Jones (and his Orchestra, vocalist, Eddie Stone) (1932)
Teddy Wilson (1935)
Muggsy Spanier, Sidney Bechet (1940)
King Cole Trio (Decca, 1940)^[5]
Frank Sinatra (1941) - The Best Of The Columbia Years 1943-1952 (1995 & 2003)
The Singers Unlimited - The Complete A Capella Sessions (2006)
Coleman Hawkins's Swing Four (December, 1943)
Art Tatum (1944)
Chet Baker (1954)
Nat King Cole (1957)
Louis Armstrong (1957)
Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band feat. Clancy Hayes - Beauty and the Beat (1957)
Benny Carter - Bar Jazz (1958)
Zoot Sims & Al Cohn - Either Way (1961)
Marvin Gaye (1965)
Stephane Grappelli, Lisa Eckinger, Ike Isaacs and the Diz Disley Trio (1975)
(Joe Turner) Effervescent (1976)
Harry Nilsson - Knnillssonn bonus track (1977)
Oscar Peterson & Count Basie - Night Rider (1978)
Jamie Cullum (1999)
June Christy - Cool Christy (2002)

↑ "Sweet Lorraine" at jazzstandards.com
↑ "Matrix BVE-Test-152. Sweet Lorraine / Rudy Vallée". University of California, Santa Barbara Library. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
↑ "Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra, Sweet Lorraine (1928)". YouTube. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
↑ Jimmie Noone: Apex Blues. The Original Decca Recordings. Liner notes by Richard Hadlock. Decca GRD-633, MCA Records and GRP Records 1994. Personnel include Jimmie Noone (clarinet), Joe Poston (alto saxophone), Earl Hines (piano), Bud Scott (banjo and guitar) and Johnny Wells (drums).
↑ "Nat King Cole – The Early Years". University of Missouri–Kansas City. Retrieved 2014-03-23.