"The Thrill Is Gone" | |
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Song | |
Released | 1931 |
Genre | Traditional pop, Jazz |
Composer(s) | Ray Henderson |
Lyricist(s) | Lew Brown |
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a popular song composed by Ray Henderson with lyrics by Lew Brown which was first sung by Everett Marshall in the Broadway revue George White's Scandals in 1931. [1]
The song was first recorded in 1931 by Rudy Vallée And His Connecticut Yankees on the Victor label. [2] It became a hit at #10 on the charts and was recorded later by many other popular jazz artists throughout the following decades, eventually becoming a jazz standard. [3]
After listening to Chet Baker's cover, Elvis Costello became inspired and wrote Almost Blue off the album Imperial Bedroom, trying to capture its "erie" quality. [4]
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