"Out in the Cold Again" is a song written by
Ted Koehler
Ted L. Koehler (July 14, 1894 – January 17, 1973) was an American lyricist. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
Life and career
Koehler was born in 1894 in Washington, D.C.
He started out as a photo-engraver, but w ...
and
Rube Bloom and first performed by
Glen Gray
Glenn Gray Knoblauch (June 7, 1900 – August 23, 1963), known professionally as Glen Gray, was an American jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra.''The Mississippi Rag'', "Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra," George A. Bo ...
and the
Casa Loma Orchestra. It reached #4 on the
US chart in 1934.
Other charting versions
*In 1951,
Richard Hayes released a version as a single which reached #9 on the US pop chart.
*In 1957,
The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon
''The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon'' is the only album by The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon and was released in 1956.
The album featured five singles with all singles charting on at least one chart and one single's B-side, " Who Can Ex ...
released a version as a single which reached #10 on the
US R&B chart.
Other versions
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Johnnie Ray
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blu ...
featuring
The Four Lads
The Four Lads was a Canadian male singing quartet which, in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, earned many gold singles and albums. Its million-selling signature tunes include "Moments to Remember"; " Standing on the Corner"; "No, Not Much"; "Who Needs ...
released a version of the song as the B-side to their 1952 single "
Walkin' My Baby Back Home".
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Ferlin Husky
Ferlin Eugene Husky (December 3, 1925 – March 17, 2011) was an early American country music singer who was equally adept at the genres of traditional honky-tonk, ballads, spoken recitations, and rockabilly pop tunes. He had two dozen top-20 hit ...
released a version of the song on his 1957
EP, ''Boulevard of Broken Dreams''.
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Sam Fletcher released a version of the song as a single in 1959, but it did not chart.
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool". M ...
released a version of the song on his 1959 album, ''
A Winter Romance''.
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Kay Starr
Katherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was of Iroquois and Irish heritage. Starr performed multip ...
released a version of the song as the
B-side
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to her 1960 single "Just for a Thrill".
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Sam Cooke
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released a version of the song on his 1961 album, ''
My Kind of Blues''.
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The Dovells
The Dovells were an American doo-wop group, formed at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1957, under the name 'The Brooktones'. The original members were Arnie Silver, Len Borisoff, Jerry Gross (alias Summers), Mike Freda, a ...
released a version of the song as the B-side to their 1961 single "
Bristol Stomp
"Bristol Stomp" is a song written in 1961 by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, two executives with the Cameo-Parkway record label, for The Dovells, a doo-wop singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who recorded it for Cameo-Parkway late that yea ...
".
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Clark Terry
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–51), Duke ...
released a version of the song on his 1961 album, ''
Everything's Mellow
''Everything's Mellow'' is an album by trumpeter Clark Terry featuring performances recorded in 1961 and originally released on the Moodsville label. ''.
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Gene Ammons
Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. The son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Gene Ammons is remembered for his accessible music, steeped in soul and ...
,
Sonny Stitt
Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his ...
, and
Jack McDuff
Eugene McDuff (September 17, 1926 – January 23, 2001), known professionally as "Brother" Jack McDuff or "Captain" Jack McDuff, was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era ...
released a version of the song on their 1962 album, ''
Soul Summit
''Soul Summit'' is an album by saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt with organist Jack McDuff recorded in 1962 and released on the Prestige label.Etta Jones
Etta Jones (November 25, 1928 – October 16, 2001) was an American jazz singer. Her best-known recordings are "Don't Go to Strangers" and "Save Your Love for Me". She worked with Buddy Johnson, Oliver Nelson, Earl Hines, Barney Bigard, Gene A ...
released a version of the song on her 1962 album, ''
Lonely and Blue''.
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The Earls
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released a version of the song on their 1963 album, ''Remember Me Baby''.
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Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Performing rockabilly, pop and country music, she had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade, surpassed only ...
released a version of the song as the B-side to her 1963 single "
I Wanna Be Around
"I Wanna Be Around" is a popular song. In the lyrics, the singer declares that he "wants to be around" when the woman who spurned him inevitably gets her heart broken. The song is credited to Sadie Vimmerstedt and Johnny Mercer.
Origins
Vimme ...
". It was featured in her album, ''
..."Let Me Sing"''.
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Jean DuShon
Jean DuShon (born Anna Jean Harris, later Atwell, August 16, 1935 – July 19, 2019) was an American jazz and R&B singer, and stage actor. She was best known for her recordings in the 1960s, including the first released recording of the so ...
released a version of the song as a single in 1966, but it did not chart.
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George Benson
George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist.
A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, pla ...
released a version of the song on his 1969 album, ''
Tell It Like It Is''.
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Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s songs". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performe ...
released a version of the song on her 1987 compilation album, ''The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 2 (1950-1952)''.
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The Crests
The Crests were an American doo-wop group, formed by bass vocalist J.T. Carter in the mid 1950s. The group had several Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s on Coed Records. Their most popular song, "16 Candles", rose to #2 on the ''Bi ...
released a version of the song on their 1993 compilation album, ''The Best of the Rest of Johnny Maestro & the Crests''.
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Julia Lee released a version of the song on her 1995 compilation album, ''Kansas City Star''.
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Ronnie Spector
Veronica Yvette Greenfield (; August 10, 1943 – January 12, 2022) was an American singer who co-founded and fronted the girl group The Ronettes. She is sometimes referred to as the original "bad girl of rock and roll".
Ronnie formed the ...
released a version of the song on her 2006 album, ''The Last of the Rock Stars''.
References
1934 songs
1951 singles
1957 singles
1959 singles
1966 singles
Johnnie Ray songs
The Four Lads songs
Ferlin Husky songs
The Teenagers songs
Dean Martin songs
Kay Starr songs
Sam Cooke songs
Etta James songs
Brenda Lee songs
George Benson songs
Dinah Washington songs
Mercury Records singles
Gee Records singles
Cadet Records singles
Songs with lyrics by Ted Koehler
Songs with music by Rube Bloom
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