VERY THOUGHT OF YOU, The

Created on 11/11/2006
Latest update on 30/04/2019

Artist: Al Bowlly
Author: Ray Noble
Label: Decca
Year: 1934

The singer Richard Thompson sings about in Al Bowlly's In Heaven. He died in a German airstrike over London during the Battle of Britain. Solo version with pianist Monia Liter.

Covers:

1934:

Ray Noble [vocal by Al Bowlly; two weeks later for HMV; version used in tv-series The Singing Detective]

1934:

Bing Crosby

1934:

Casa Loma Orch.

1939:

Billie Holiday [later in film Forever Young]

1944:

Vaughn Monroe

1944:

Guy Lombardo

1946:

Luis Russell

1950:

Doris Day [in film Young Man With A Horn]

1956:

Norrie Paramor

1956:

Lawrence Welk

1957:

Erroll Garner

1957:

Three Suns

1957:

Four Freshmen

1958:

Nat King Cole

1958:

Ahmad Jamal

1958:

Art Farmer

1960:

Pat Boone

1961:

Little Willie John

1962:

Frank Sinatra

1962:

Enoch Light

1962:

Ella Fitzgerald

1962:

Earl Grant

1964:

Rick Nelson

1964:

Nancy Wilson

1965:

Tony Bennett

1966:

Chris Montez

1966:

Andy Williams

1967:

Albert King

1983:

Don McLean

1991:

Natalie Cole

1994:

Etta James

1995:

Elvis Costello

1996:

James Hunter

1996:

Chuck Carbo

1996:

Charles Brown

1999:

Norma Waterson [in medley with Al Bowlly's In Heaven]

2002:

Rod Stewart

2003:

Julien Clerc [as Obsession]

2003:

Aaron Neville [with Linda Ronstadt]

2016:

Michael Bublé

2016:

Stacey Kent

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