Recording: Lady Be Good

Performed by
Larry Adler
Recording date
April 1936
First release
On Audio single Lady Be Good (1936)
Rating

Song info

Song
Oh, Lady Be Good
Music written by
George Gershwin
Lyrics written by
Ira Gershwin
First performance
Oh, Lady Be Good by Walter Catlett in stage production Lady, Be Good! (December 1, 1924)
First recording
Oh, Lady Be Good! by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (December 29, 1924)
Language
English

Versions

Title Performer Release date down Info
1 Oh, Lady Be Good Walter Catlett December 1, 1924 (performance date)
2 Oh, Lady Be Good! Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra March 1925
3 Lady Be Good Sol Hoopii and His Hawaiian Trio 1925
4 Lady Be Good Coleman Hawkins 1935
5 Lady Be Good Larry Adler 1936
6 Lady Be Good Nat Gonella & His Georgians 1937
7 Oh! Lady Be Good Brian Lawrance and His Lansdowne House Sextet 1937
8 Oh, Lady Be Good Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys December 1938
9 Oh, Lady Be Good Art Shaw and His New Music 1939
10 Lady Be Good Sv. Asmussens Kvartet 1941
11 Oh! Lady Be Good Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers 1941
12 Oh, Lady Be Good Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra 1941
13 Oh, Lady Be Good Frankie Laine - Paul Dunlap Orchestra November 1947
14 Oh, Lady Be Good! Ella Fitzgerald with Bob Haggart and His Orchestra 1947
15 Lady Be Good Albert Ammons 1948
16 Lady Be Good Jimmy Rowles Trio 1955
17 Oh, Lady Be Good The Jack Kelly Trio 1956
18 Oh, Lady Be Good! Billy Ward and The Dominoes 1957
19 Oh, Lady Be Good Buddy DeFranco 1958
20 Oh, Lady Be Good Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith 1958
21 Lady Be Good Johnny Hodges and His Strings 1959
22 Lady Be Good Pearl Bailey 1959
23 Lady Be Good Booker Pittman 1959
24 Lady Be Good Albert Nicholas 1960
25 Oh, Lady Be Good Stuff Smith 1960
26 Oh, Lady Be Good Les Brown and His Band of Renown October 20, 1961
27 Lady Be Good Fats Navarro, The Tadd Dameron Quintet 1961
28 Lady Be Good Tony Almerico featuring Molly Duncan 1961
29 Oh, Lady Be Good Rose Murphy, Featuring Slam Stewart 1962
30 Oh, Lady Be Good Willis Jackson 1962
31 Oh, Lady Be Good Herb Ellis, Charlie Byrd 1965
32 Lady Be Good Count Basie with the Alan Copeland Singers 1966
33 Lady Be Good Ken Colyer 1967
34 Oh, Lady Be Good Dave Shepherd Quintet 1969
35 Lady Be Good Slam Stewart featuring Milt Buckner and Jo Jones 1971
36 Oh Lady Be Good Hein van der Gaag 1972
37 Lady Be Good Ray Brown 1973
38 Oh, Lady Be Good Supersax 1973
39 Oh, Lady Be Good Jimmy Witherspoon 1973
40 Oh, Lady Be Good Roy Eldridge 1974
41 Oh, Lady Be Good Herb Ellis and Joe Pass 1974
42 Lady Be Good Dink Johnson 1975
43 Oh, Lady Be Good Chris Barber with Ray Nance 1975
44 Oh, Lady Be Good Joe Venuti and George Barnes 1975
45 Oh, Lady Be Good Zoot Sims 1975
46 Oh! Lady Be Good Eiji Kitamura, Shoji Suzuki 1976
47 Lady Be Good Arne Domnérus 1977
48 Oh, Lady Be Good Joe Venuti and Dave McKenna 1977
49 Oh, Lady Be Good Lou Levy 1977
50 Lady Be Good Lee Konitz 1978
51 Oh! Lady Be Good Butch & Bucky - Butch Miles Sings with the Bucky Pizzarelli Trio 1978
52 Lady Be Good Eddie Jefferson 1979
53 Lady Be Good Bengt Hallberg 1979
54 Lady Be Good Dave Pell's Prez Conference Featuring Joe Williams 1979
55 Lady Be Good Benny Waters 1981
56 Lady Be Good Bireli Lagrene Ensemble 1981
57 Lady Be Good Swing Band Ferdinanda Havlíka 1981
58 Oh, Lady Be Good Pete Fountain and Friends 1981
59 Lady Be Good Toots & Louis 1982
60 Oh, Lady Be Good Judy Carmichael 1984
61 Oh! Lady Be Good Kenny Davern, Dick Wellstood, Chuck Riggs 1986
62 Oh, Lady Be Good Gevleugelde vrienden 1987
63 Oh, Lady Be Good Carol Sloane 1987
64 Oh! Lady Be Good Spike Robinson, Strings Arranged and Conducted by Jimmy Deuchar 1988
65 Lady Be Good Jørgen Svare Jazz Quartet 1989
66 Lady Be Good Melissa Manchester 1989
67 Oh, Lady Be Good Herb Ellis & Red Mitchell 1989
68 Oh, Lady Be Good Lee Konitz & Franco D'Andrea 1989
69 Oh, Lady Be Good Cleo Laine July 9, 1991
70 Lady Be Good Spanky Wilson 1991
71 Lady Be Good Clark Terry 1991
72 Oh, Lady Be Good Turtle Island String Quartet 1991
73 Oh, Lady Be Good Keith Ingham 1991
74 Oh, Lady Be Good Spiegle Willcox 1992
75 Oh, Lady Be Good The Butch Thompson Trio 1992
76 Oh, Lady Be Good Kid Ory and His Creole Band 1992
77 Oh, Lady Be Good Martin Taylor 1994
78 Lady Be Good Donna Byrne November 21, 1995
79 Lady Be Good Butch Miles and Friends 1995
80 Oh, Lady Be Good! Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orchestra 1995
81 Oh, Lady Be Good Gene Harris Quartet With Special Guest Frank Wess 1995
82 Oh, Lady Be Good! Barney Wilen 1995
83 Oh, Lady Be Good Lee Konitz - Harold Danko 1995
84 Oh Lady Be Good The Tremè Brass Band 1995
85 Oh, Lady Be Good Ann Hampton Callaway 1996
86 Oh Lady Be Good Dee Dee Bridgewater 1997
87 Oh, Lady Be Good Pearl Django November 16, 1999
88 Lady Be Good Joscho Stephan January 31, 2000
89 Oh, Lady Be Good Mundell Lowe & Lloyd Wells October 17, 2000
90 Oh Lady Be Good Christiane Noll 2000
91 Oh, Lady Be Good The David Leonhardt Jazz Group 2000
92 Oh, Lady Be Good Hot Club de Norvège 2000
93 Lady Be Good Mundell Lowe & Hendrik Meurkens 2001
94 Oh, Lady Be Good Skitch Henderson 2001
95 Oh, Lady Be Good John Hasbrouck 2002
96 Oh, Lady Be Good Jeff Midkiff 2003
97 Lady Be Good Bill Tapia 2005
98 Lady Be Good John Cipolla and Doc Livingston 2005
99 Lady Be Good Randy Reinhart Jesper Thilo Sextet March 28, 2006
100 Lady Be Good Frank Vignola April 17, 2007
101 Lady Be Good Kim Hoorweg May 2007
102 Oh, Lady Be Good! Dianne Reeves June 5, 2007
103 Oh, Lady Be Good Meral Guneyman and Dick Hyman June 5, 2007
104 Oh, Lady, Be Good! Jim Tisdall with David Bromberg and Tyrone Brown 2008
105 Lady Be Good Slade September 28, 2009
106 Oh, Lady Be Good Ethan Iverson, Albert Tootie Heath, Ben Street 2010
107 Oh, Lady Be Good Joanna MacGregor 2011

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