It Never Entered My Mind

For the TV episode, see Jake and the Fatman.

"It Never Entered My Mind"
Song
Published	1940
Songwriter(s)	Lorenz Hart
Composer(s)	Richard Rodgers

"It Never Entered My Mind" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher , ^[1] where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.

Notable recordings

• Frank Sinatra – Frankly Sentimental (1949) Originally recorded November 5, 1947, ^[2] 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)
• Bud Powell – Bud Powell's Moods (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)
• Barbara Cook – Barbara Cook Sings "From the Heart" (1959)
• Joni James – 100 Strings and Joni (1959)
• Stan Getz – Cool Velvet: Stan Getz and Strings (1960)
• Anita O'Day – Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960) ^[3]
• 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)
• Jack Jones – Where Love Has Gone (1964)
• Eddie Fisher - Games That Lovers Play (1966)
• 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) ^[4]

Popular culture

• The Miles Davis recording was used in the following movies: Runaway Bride (1999) and the Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny (1974).

References

1. 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.
2. "It Never Entered My Mind". 25 October 2010.
3. "www.allmusic.com". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved July 3, 2024.
4. "Italia overview". Allmusic.com .