It Never Entered My Mind

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

Last updated January 17, 2026

"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)
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)
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)
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

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

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[jazzstandards_itneverentered-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 .

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v t e Rodgers and Hart
Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart
Musicals	Fly with Me Poor Little Ritz Girl The Garrick Gaieties Dearest Enemy The Girl Friend Peggy-Ann A Connecticut Yankee Present Arms Chee-Chee Ever Green Simple Simon America's Sweetheart Jumbo On Your Toes Babes in Arms I'd Rather Be Right The Boys from Syracuse I Married an Angel Too Many Girls Higher and Higher Pal Joey By Jupiter
Songs	"Manhattan" "Mountain Greenery" "Here in My Arms" "Blue Room" "My Heart Stood Still" "Thou Swell" "To Keep My Love Alive" "You Took Advantage of Me" "With a Song in My Heart" "A Ship Without a Sail" "Dancing on the Ceiling" "Ten Cents a Dance" "He Was Too Good to Me" "I've Got Five Dollars" "Isn't It Romantic?" "Lover" "Mimi" "You Are Too Beautiful" "Blue Moon" "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "My Romance" "Little Girl Blue" "There's a Small Hotel" "Glad to Be Unhappy" "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" "Where or When" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "My Funny Valentine" "Johnny One Note" "The Lady Is a Tramp" "Have You Met Miss Jones?" "I'll Tell the Man in the Street" "Spring Is Here" "Falling in Love with Love" "This Can't Be Love" "Sing for Your Supper" "I Like to Recognize the Tune" "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" "Give It Back to the Indians" "You're Nearer" "It Never Entered My Mind" "I Could Write a Book" "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" "Ev'rything I've Got" "Wait till You See Her"

It Never Entered My Mind

Contents

Notable recordings

Popular culture

References