SWEET SUE JUST YOU

Created on 09/01/2001
Latest update on 22/04/2024

Artist: Charley Straight Orch.
Author: Victor Young/Will Harris
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1928

Written for silent film starlet Sue Carol, the future Mrs Alan Ladd. Vocal: Frank Sylvano.

Covers:

1928:

Jimmy Noone

1928:

Paul Whiteman

1929:

Bix Beiderbecke

1932:

Mills Brothers [sang it live at the Apollo Theatre in '27]

1932:

Bing Crosby

1932:

Ted Lewis

1933:

Louis Armstrong [scatting: Budd Johnson]

1934:

Nat Gonella

1935:

Ray Noble

1935:

Benny Goodman

1935:

Fats Waller

1936:

Louis Prima

1937:

Django Reinhardt

1938:

Harry James

1938:

Victor Young Orch. [vocal: Connie Boswell]

1938:

Jimmie Lunceford

1940:

Artie Shaw

1940:

Sidney Bechet

1956:

Miles Davis

1957:

Jim Reeves

1958:

Pat Boone

1958:

Tito Puente

1958:

Danny Barker

1959:

Bill Haley & His Comets

1963:

Jim Kweskin

1966:

Ray Conniff

1966:

Bachelors

1968:

Charlatans

1973:

Hurriganes [from Finland; as Sweet Sue]

1978:

Leon Redbone

1995:

Tiny Tim

And all other usual suspects: Count Basie, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Chick Webb, Erroll Garner, Nat King Cole, Chet Baker, Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Christian, Teddy Wilson.

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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