"All of You" is a
popular song written by
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film.
Born to ...
and published in
1954.
It was introduced by
Don Ameche
Don Ameche (; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, stock, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which l ...
in the Broadway musical ''
Silk Stockings
''Silk Stockings'' is a musical with a book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath
Leueen MacGrath (3 July 1914 – 27 March 1992) was an English actress and playwright and the second wife of George S. Kaufman, from 1949 until their divor ...
'' and featured in the
film version
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as well, when it was sung by
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer. He is often called the greatest dancer in Hollywood film history.
Astaire's career in stage, film, and tele ...
.
Notable recordings
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Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and educator. For six decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz.
Biography Early life
Jamal was born Fr ...
– for the album ''
Ahmad Jamal Plays'' (1955)
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Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 ...
– for the album ''
Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 ...
'' (1957)
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Anita O'Day
Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band a ...
- included on her album ''
Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May'' (1959)
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Annie Ross
Annabelle McCauley Allan Short (25 July 193021 July 2020), known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
Early life
Ross was born in Su ...
– for her album ''
Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan!
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– featured the song on his live 1961 album ''
Sunday at the Village Vanguard
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''
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop s ...
- on the album ''
Last Recording'' (1959)
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Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American musician and actor. He performed jazz, pop, rock and roll, folk, swing, and country music.
He started his career as a songwriter for Connie Fran ...
(1963) - included on the compilation album ''The Swinging Side of Bobby Darin'' (2005).
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Denny Zeitlin
Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the ...
- on his album ''Wishing on the Moon'' (2018)
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, i ...
- on her album ''
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book'' (1956)
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Karrin Allyson
Karrin Allyson (pronounced ''KAR-in''; born Karrin Allyson Schoonover on July 27, 1963) is an American jazz vocalist. She has been nominated for five Grammy Awards and has received positive reviews from several prominent sources, including the ' ...
- on her album ''
Collage'' (1996)
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Frank Sinatra - on ''
Trilogy: Past Present Future'' (1980).
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Harry Connick Jr
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- on ''
True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter'' (2019).
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Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed "The Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for " The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an ...
- for his album ''Musical Sounds Are the Best Songs'' (1956).
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Michael Holliday - included on the album ''Hi!'' (1958).
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Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...
- on ''
'Round About Midnight'' (1957).
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Modern Jazz Quartet
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- on the 1955 album ''
Concorde
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Studies started in 1954, and France and t ...
''.
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McCoy Tyner
Alfred McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938March 6, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet (from 1960 to 1965) and his long solo career afterwards. He was an NEA Jazz Master and five-time Gr ...
- on ''
Live at Newport'' (1963).
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Nancy Wilson - for her album ''
Like in Love
''Like in Love!'' is the debut album by the American vocalist Nancy Wilson, it was released in April 1960 by Capitol Records, and arranged by Billy May.
Track listing
# " On the Street Where You Live" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 1:42 ...
'' (1960)
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Robert Goulet
Robert Gérard Goulet (November 26, 1933 October 30, 2007) was an American and Canadian singer and actor of French-Canadian ancestry. Goulet was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts until age 13, and then spent his formative years in Canad ...
- on the album ''Two of Us'' (1962).
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Sammy Davis Jr. - a single release in 1956.
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Sarah Vaughan - for the album ''
After Hours at the London House
''After Hours at the London House'' is a 1959 live album by American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, recorded at The London House, Chicago.
Track listing
# "Like Someone in Love" ( Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:37
# "Detour Ahead" ( ...
'' (1958)
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Tony Bennett
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- included as a bonus track on the CD reissue of ''
When Lights Are Low'' (1964). Recorded again for ''
Steppin' Out'' (1993)
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Tony Martin - a single release in 1957.
* Vrock - a single released on his YouTube Channel in 2022 featuring JJ Ironberg,
which covers the Frank Sinatra rendition.
References
1954 songs
Songs from Cole Porter musicals
Songs written by Cole Porter
Nancy Wilson (jazz singer) songs
Fred Astaire songs
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