Little Girl Blue (song)

"Little Girl Blue"
"Little Girl Blue"
Song
Published	1935
Composer	Richard Rodgers
Lyricist	Lorenz Hart
Audio example
	"Little Girl Blue" by Nina Simone (2013 – Remaster)" on YouTube

"Little Girl Blue" is a popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, published in 1935.^[1] The song was introduced by Gloria Grafton in the Broadway musical Jumbo.^[2]

Film appearances

1950 The Jackpot
1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo – sung by Doris Day
1990 The Handmaid's Tale
2022 Saint Omer – sung by Nina Simone

Recordings

Many popular and jazz artists have recorded the tune, including:

The Afghan Whigs - Debonair (1994)
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Meets Space Jazz Trio (1988)
Polly Bergen – Little Girl Blue (1955)
Donald Byrd – Byrd in Flight, as "Little Boy Blue": (Blue Note 1960)^[3]
Ann Hampton Callaway – To Ella with Love (1996)^[4]
Barbara Cook - From the Heart: The Best of Rodgers and Hart (1959)
Sam Cooke – My Kind of Blues (1961)^[5]
Doris Day – Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)^[6]
Ethel Ennis – Eyes for You (1964)
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book (1956)^[7]
Judy Garland – Alone (1957)^[8]
Red Garland – A Garland of Red (Prestige 1956)^[9]
The Four Freshmen – Love Lost (1959)^[10]
Johnny Hartman – And I Thought About You (1959)^[11]
The Hi-Lo's - Now Hear This.^[12]
Milt Jackson – Reverence and Compassion (1993)^[13]
Harry James
Joni James – Little Girl Blue (1956)
Keith Jarrett – Standards in Norway (1995)^[14]
Janis Joplin – I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969, although the lyrics on this version were rearranged)^[15]
Morgana King - It's a Quiet Thing (1965)^[16]
Diana Krall – From This Moment On (2006)^[17]
Stacey Kent – Dreamsville (2001)^[18]
Brenda Lee – Reflections in Blue (1964)^[19]
Grant Green – Oleo with Sonny Clark (1962)^[20]
Eddie Harris – Exodus to Jazz (1961)^[21]
John Lewis – The John Lewis Piano (1957)^[22]
Hank Mobley – Mobley's Message (Prestige 1956)^[23]
Gerry Mulligan with Jon Eardley – California Concerts (1954)^[24]
Anita O'Day – Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960)^[25]
Oscar Peterson – My Favorite Instrument (solo piano)^[26]
The Postal Service (a remix of the Nina Simone version) - Verve Remixed 3 (2005)
Sue Raney – Sue Raney, Volume II (2004)^[27]
Linda Ronstadt – For Sentimental Reasons (1986)^[28]
Diana Ross – Touch Me in the Morning (1973)^[29]
Mathilde Santing Combo - Hand In Hand (1983)
The Carpenters – Lovelines (1989)^[30]
Rosemary Clooney – Rosemary Clooney Sings Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein (1990)^[31]
Carly Simon – My Romance (1990)^[32]
Nina Simone (whose 1958 debut album Little Girl Blue was named after the song)^[33]
Frank Sinatra – Songs for Young Lovers (1954)^[34]
Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)^[35]
Margaret Whiting – this charted briefly in 1947^[36]
Nancy Wilson - Hello Young Lovers (1962)^[37]
Pinky Winters – Pinky (1954)
Louis Armstrong – Pops Is Tops-The Verve Studio Albums (2018)^[38]
Laura Mvula – Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave (2013)

References

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Margaret Whiting
Albums	Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook Broadway, Right Now!
Singles	"That Old Black Magic" "Moonlight in Vermont" "It Might as Well Be Spring" "Come Rain or Come Shine" "Guilty" "Old Devil Moon" "Little Girl Blue" "But Beautiful" "Now Is the Hour" "A Tree in the Meadow" "Far Away Places" "Forever and Ever" "A Wonderful Guy" "Baby, It's Cold Outside" "Slippin' Around" "I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs)" "My Foolish Heart" "A Bushel and a Peck" "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" "I'll Walk Alone" "Outside of Heaven" "Why Don't You Believe Me?" "The Wheel of Hurt" "Only Love Can Break a Heart" "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'" "Until It's Time for You to Go"
Related articles	Richard H. Whiting Richard A. Whiting Barbara Whiting Lou Busch Margaret Young Ira Clifton Copley

Rodgers and Hart
Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart
Stage musicals	Fly with Me (1920) Poor Little Ritz Girl (1920) The Garrick Gaieties (1925) Dearest Enemy (1925) The Girl Friend (1926) Peggy-Ann (1926) A Connecticut Yankee Present Arms (1927) Chee-Chee (1928) Ever Green (1930) Simple Simon (1930) America's Sweetheart (1931) Jumbo (1935) On Your Toes (1936) Babes in Arms (1937) I'd Rather Be Right (1937) The Boys from Syracuse (1938) I Married an Angel (1938) Too Many Girls (1939) Higher and Higher (1940) Pal Joey (1940) By Jupiter (1942)
Musical films	Evergreen (1934) Babes in Arms (1939) The Boys from Syracuse (1940) Too Many Girls (1940) Higher and Higher (1944) Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
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"
Soundtracks	Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)