Recording: God Bless the Child

Performed by

Anita O'Day

Recording date

January 19, 1961

First release

On Audio album Trav'lin' Light (1961)

Comments

Anita O'Day accompanied only by Barney Kessel on guitar.

Rating

Song info

Song

God Bless the Child

Written by

Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday

First release

God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday on audio single God Bless the Child (1941)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	God Bless the Child	Billie Holiday	1941
2	God Bless the Child	Webster Young, Paul Quinichette, Mal Waldron, Joe Puma, Earl May, Ed Thigpen	1957
3	God Bless the Child	Sam Cooke	April 1959
4	God Bless the Child	Anita O'Day	1961
5	God Bless the Child	Johnny Griffin with Strings and Brass	1961
6	God Bless the Child	Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings	1961
7	God Bless the Child	Carmen McRae	1961
8	God Bless the Child	Eddie Harris	1961
9	God Bless the Child	Sonny Rollins	April 1962
10	God Bless the Child	Aretha Franklin	August 1962
11	God Bless the Child	Dinah Washington	1962
12	God Bless the Child	Bobby Timmons	1962
13	God Bless the Child	Lou Rawls with Les McCann Ltd.	1962
14	God Bless the Child	Chris Connor	1962
15	God Bless the Child	Jimmie Rodgers [1]	August 1963
16	God Bless the Child	Stanley Turrentine	1963
17	God Bless the Child	Dave Van Ronk	August 1964
18	God Bless the Child	Dave Berry	November 1964
19	God Bless the Child	Judy Henske	1964
20	God Bless the Child	Keely Smith	1964
21	God Bless the Child	Ethel Ennis	1964
22	God Bless the Child	Eric Dolphy	1964
23	God Bless the Child	Wes Montgomery with Strings	1964
24	God Bless the Child	The Righteous Brothers	December 1965
25	God Bless the Child	The Junior Mance Trio	1965
26	God Bless the Child	Andy and the Bey Sisters	1965
27	God Bless the Child	Clara Ward	1966
28	God Bless the Child	Noel Harrison	1966
29	God Bless the Child	Julie London	1966
30	God Bless the Child	Fifty Foot Hose	December 1967
31	God Bless the Child	Sonny Criss	1967
32	God Bless the Child	Stevie Wonder	December 1968
33	God Bless the Child	George Gruntz	1968
34	God Bless the Child	Blood, Sweat & Tears	January 1969
35	God Bless the Child	Kay Starr & Count Basie	1969
36	God Bless the Child	Ran Blake	1969
37	God Bless the Child	The Anita Kerr Singers	1969
38	God Bless the Child	Liza Minnelli	September 1970
39	God Bless the Child	Jack Jones	1970
40	God Bless the Child	Duffy Power	1971
41	God Bless the Child	Kenny Burrell	1971
42	God Bless the Child	Charles McPherson	1972
43	God Bless the Child	Guy Lafitte	1972
44	God Bless the Child	Richie Havens	1972
45	God Bless the Child	Diana Ross	1972
46	God Bless the Child	Gene Ammons	1973
47	God Bless the Child	Dick Hyman	1974
48	God Bless the Child	Dale Miller	1975
49	God Bless the Child	Sheila Jordan	1976
50	God Bless the Child	Rosemary Clooney	1978
51	God Bless the Child	John Klemmer	1979
52	God Bless the Child	Asleep at the Wheel	1979
53	God Bless the Child	Ernestine Anderson	1980
54	God Bless the Child	Eydie Gorme	1981
55	God Bless the Child	Houston Person	1981
56	God Bless the Child	Mary Osborne	1982
57	God Bless the Child	Willy Heynen & Ingrid Pollet	1982
58	God Bless the Child	Carrie Smith	1983
59	God Bless the Child	Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette	1983
60	God Bless the Child	Bengt Hallberg, Arne Domnérus	1984
61	God Bless the Child	Jeanie Lambe with The Danny Moss Quartet	1984
62	God Bless the Child	Crystal Gayle	1985
63	God Bless the Child	Maree Montgomery	1986
64	God Bless the Child	Mari Nakamoto	1987
65	God Bless the Child	Steve Miller	September 1988
66	God Bless the Child	Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy	1989
67	God Bless the Child	Margaret Urlich	1989
68	God Bless the Child	Yeardley Smith	December 4, 1990
69	God Bless the Child	Rudy Lozano	1990
70	God Bless the Child	Barbra Streisand	September 24, 1991
71	God Bless the Child	Eric Miller & His Orchestra	1991
72	God Bless the Child	Rosalie Sorrels	1991
73	God Bless the Child	Red Richards	1991
74	God Bless the Child	Eva Cassidy	November 1992
75	God Bless the Child	Abbey Lincoln	1992
76	God Bless the Child	Diane Schuur	1992
77	God Bless the Child	John Hicks	1993
78	God Bless the Child	Galapagos Duck	November 2, 1994
79	God Bless the Child	Floyd McDaniel	1994
80	God Bless the Child	The Erika Jazz Trio	1994
81	God Bless the Child	Ann Farholt	1994
82	God Bless the Child	John Gotting	1994
83	God Bless the Child	Kevin Mahogany	March 19, 1995
84	God Bless the Child	Jo Ann Kelly	1995
85	God Bless the Child	Dave Holland	1995
86	God Bless the Child	George Vukán & His Korg	1995
87	God Bless the Child	The Beautiful South	December 1996
88	God Bless the Child	Diane Delin	October 21, 1997
89	God Bless the Child	Angela Brown	1997
90	God Bless the Child	Barbara Morrison	1997
91	God Bless the Child	Tony Scott, Franco D'Andrea	January 13, 1998
92	God Bless the Child	Christine Collister	1998
93	God Bless the Child	Lee Morgan	1998
94	God Bless the Child	Brenda Carol	1998
95	God Bless the Child	Carol Welsman	1999
96	God Bless the Child	Zrazy	1999
97	God Bless the Child	Tony Barnard's All Hat Jazz	1999
98	God Bless the Child	Lisa Smith and the Mike Skory Trio	1999
99	God Bless the Child	Jamie Cullum Trio	1999
100	God Bless the Child	Keiko Lee	1999
101	God Bless the Child	René Marie	May 16, 2000
102	God Bless the Child	Rainer	December 18, 2000
103	God Bless the Child	Mary Coughlan	2000
104	God Bless the Child	Joe Massters, Chris Clark [1]	2001
105	God Bless the Child	Matthew Cook	2002
106	God Bless the Child	Lils Mackintosh	2002
107	God Bless the Child	Janine Alondres	2002
108	God Bless the Child	Janet Villas	2002
109	God Bless the Child	Jerry Grillo	2003
110	God Bless the Child	Jacintha	2003
111	God Bless the Child	Curtis Fuller With Brad Goode	March 16, 2004
112	God Bless the Child	Trijntje Oosterhuis	2004
113	God Bless the Child	Margie Baker and Friends	2004
114	God Bless the Child	Frédéric Yonnet	2004
115	God Bless the Child	Mikalah Gordon	May 17, 2005
116	God Bless the Child	Soulbob	2005
117	God Bless the Child	Nnenna Freelon	2005
118	God Bless the Child	Mishka Adams	2005
119	God Bless the Child	Angela Scappatura	2005
120	God Bless the Child	Anne Ducros	May 2, 2006
121	God Bless the Child	Gladys Knight	October 3, 2006
122	God Bless the Child	George Benson & Al Jarreau featuring Jill Scott	October 24, 2006
123	God Bless the Child	Kim Nalley	2006
124	God Bless the Child	LaKisha Jones	March 14, 2007
125	God Bless the Child	Rebecca Jenkins	April 2007
126	God Bless the Child	Alexis Cole	2007
127	God Bless the Child	Polly Gibbons	April 1, 2008
128	God Bless the Child	Keiko Higuchi	November 15, 2008
129	God Bless the Child	Bettye LaVette	June 16, 2009
130	God Bless the Child	Sharleen Spiteri	March 1, 2010
131	God Bless the Child	Dee Dee Bridgewater	March 2, 2010
132	God Bless the Child	Nikki Yanofsky	April 20, 2010
133	God Bless the Child	Ruth Jacott	November 16, 2010
134	God Bless the Child	Brownstone	July 5, 2011