"It Never Entered My Mind" is a

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from the 1940

Rodgers and Hart Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895–1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart' ...

musical '' Higher and Higher'', where it was introduced by

Shirley Ross Shirley Ross (born Bernice Maude Gaunt, January 7, 1913 – March 9, 1975) was an American actress and singer, notable for her duet with Bob Hope, " Thanks for the Memory" from ''The Big Broadcast of 1938''. She appeared in 25 feature films be ...

Notable recordings

* Frank Sinatra – ''

Frankly Sentimental ''Frankly Sentimental'' is the fourth studio album by Frank Sinatra, released on June 20, 1949 as a set of four 78 rpm records and a 10" LP album. The tracks were arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl and his orchestra. The album is composed ...

'' (1949) Originally recorded November 5, 1947, '' In the Wee Small Hours'' (1955), '' She Shot Me Down'' (1981) * Patty Andrews (with

Gordon Jenkins Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s. Jenkins worked with The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, Lo ...

and orchestra) (1951) * Julie London – ''

Julie Is Her Name ''Julie Is Her Name'' is the first LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records in December, 1955, under catalog numbers LRP-3006, in monaural form. It was subsequently reprocessed to produce a stereophonic album, and this stereophonic ve ...

'' (1955) *

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 ...

– '' Miles Davis, Volume 3'' (Blue Note 1954) & ''

Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet ''Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet'' is a studio album by the Miles Davis quintet recorded in 1956 and released circa January 1960. Two sessions on May 11, 1956, and October 26 in the same year resulted in four albums—this one, '' Relaxin' ...

'' (Prestige 1956) *

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, in ...

– ''

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook ''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book'' is a 1956 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lore ...

'' (1956) * Bud Powell – ''

Bud Powell's Moods ''Bud Powell's Moods'' is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released in 1956 by Norgran, featuring sessions that Powell recorded in 1954 and 1955. The album was re-issued by Verve, and released as a CD replica by Verve (Japan) in 200 ...

'' (1956) *

Coleman Hawkins Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Yanow, Scot"Coleman Hawkins: Artist Biography" AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2013. One of the first p ...

and

Ben Webster Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Career Early life and career A native of Kansas City, Missouri, he studied violin, learned how to play blues on the piano from ...

– '' Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster'' (1957) * Stan Getz – ''

Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House ''Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House'' is a 1957 live album by Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson. They were accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio and Connie Kay on drums. Two different versions of the same material, one recorded in Chicago ...

'' (1957) *

Jeri Southern Jeri Southern (born Genevieve Lillian Hering, August 5, 1926 – August 4, 1991) was an American jazz singer and pianist. Early years Born Genevieve Lillian Hering in Royal, Nebraska, United States, Southern was the granddaughter of a German pi ...

– ''Southern Hospitality'' (1958) * Stan Getz – '' Jazz Giants '58'' * Sarah Vaughan – '' Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows'' (1958) * Chet Baker – '' Chet'' (1959) *

Barbara Cook Barbara Cook (October 25, 1927 – August 8, 2017) was an American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals '' Plain and Fancy'' (1955), ''Candide'' (1956) and ''The Music Man'' ( ...

– ''Barbara Cook Sings "From the Heart" '' (1959) *

Joni James Giovanna Carmella Babbo (September 22, 1930 – February 20, 2022), known professionally as Joni James, was an American singer of traditional pop music. Biography Giovanna Carmella Babbo was born to an Italian-American family in Chicago, Illino ...

– ''100 Strings and Joni'' (1959) * Stan Getz – '' Cool Velvet: Stan Getz and Strings'' (1960) *

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 app ...

– '' Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960) * Chris Connor – ''

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'' with Maynard Ferguson (1961), ''Warm Cool: The Atlantic Years'' (2000) * June Christy – '' The Intimate Miss Christy'' (1963) * Rosemary Clooney – ''

Love Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love o ...

'' (1963) *

Johnny Hartman John Maurice Hartman (July 3, 1923 – September 15, 1983) was an American jazz singer who specialized in ballads. He sang and recorded with Earl Hines' and Dizzy Gillespie's big bands and with Erroll Garner. Hartman is best remembered for his ...

– '' The Voice That Is!!'' (1964) * Jack Jones – '' Where Love Has Gone'' (1964) *

Patty Waters Patty Waters (born March 11, 1946) is a jazz vocalist best known for her free jazz recordings in the 1960s for the ESP-Disk label. Career Waters was born in Iowa and started singing semi-professionally in high school. After school, she sang for ...

– ''College Tour'' (1966) *

Leontyne Price Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano who was the first African American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, where she was the first Af ...

– ''Right as the Rain'' (1967 *

Oscar Peterson Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards ...

– '' Another Day'' (1972) *

Jackie McLean John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their deat ...

with the Great Jazz Trio – ''New Wine in Old Bottles'' (1978) * Keith Jarrett Trio – '' Standards'' (1983) * Larry Coryell – ''Comin' Home'' (1984) *

Linda Ronstadt Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American ...

with Nelson Riddle – '' Lush Life'' (1984) *

George Shearing Sir George Albert Shearing, (13 August 1919 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 ...

– '' Grand Piano (album)'' (1985) *

Susannah McCorkle Susannah McCorkle (January 1, 1946 – May 19, 2001) was an American jazz singer. Life and career A native of Berkeley, California, McCorkle studied Italian literature at the University of California at Berkeley before dropping out to move to ...

– '' Ballad Essentials'' (2002) * Beegie Adair – '' Centennial Composers Collection'' (2003) * Mark Murphy – '' Once to Every Heart'' (2005) *

Hugh Masekela Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for ...

– '' Almost Like Being in Jazz'' (2005) *

Chris Botti Christopher Stephen Botti ( ; born October 12, 1962) is an award-winning American trumpeter and composer. In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album ''Impressions''. He was also nominated in ...

– ''

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'' (2007) * Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - '' The Capitol Studios Sessions'' (2018) * Steve Nelson- ''Brothers Under the Sun'' (2017)

Popular Culture

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References

Songs with music by Richard Rodgers Songs with lyrics by Lorenz Hart Ella Fitzgerald songs 1940 songs Songs from Rodgers and Hart musicals 1940s jazz standards {{Show-tune-stub