Recording: Cocktails for Two

Performed by

Earl Bostic and His Orchestra

Recording date

January 27, 1955

First release

On Audio single When Your Lover Has Gone (1955)

Comments

Instrumental

Rating

Song info

Song

Cocktails for Two

Written by

Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston

First performance

Cocktails for Two by Carl Brisson in movie Murder at the Vanities (May 18, 1934)

First recording

Cocktails for Two by Johnny Green and His Orchestra (March 17, 1934)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Cocktails for Two	Carl Brisson	May 18, 1934 (performance date)
2	Cocktails for Two	Johnny Green and His Orchestra	1934
3	Cocktails for Two	Duke Ellington and His Orchestra	1934
4	Cocktails for Two	Will Osborne and His Orchestra	1934
5	Cocktails for Two	Art Tatum	1934
6	Cocktails for Two	Slim Green	1935
7	Cocktails for Two	Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra	1939
8	Cocktails for Two	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	1941
9	Cocktails for Two	Spike Jones and His City Slickers	1945
10	Cocktails for Two	Maurice Rocco and His Rockin' Rhythm	1945
11	Cocktails for Two	Ted Nash	1946
12	Cocktails for Two	Carl Brisson	1946
13	Cocktails for Two	Arnett Cobb and His Orchestra	1951
14	Cocktails for Two	Dizzy Gillespie	1952
15	Cocktails for Two	Erroll Garner	1952
16	Cocktails for Two	Billy May & His Orchestra	1953
17	Cocktails for Two	Earl Bostic and His Orchestra	1955
18	Cocktails for Two	The Amazing Jean "Toots" Thielemans	1955
19	Cocktails for Two	Bobby Hackett	1956
20	Cocktails for Two	Jimmy Forrest	1956
21	Cocktails for Two	Joe Newman Sextet	1957
22	Cocktails for Two	Randy Weston	1959
23	Cocktails for Two	Mary Martin	1959
24	Cocktails for Two	Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge	1959
25	Cocktails for Two	Keely Smith with Billy May and His Orchestra	1959
26	Cocktails for Two	Sonny Stitt	1959
27	Cocktails for Two	Tony Crombie	1960
28	Cocktails for Two	Ray Charles and Betty Carter	September 1961
29	Cocktails for Two	Milt Buckner	1962
30	Cocktails for Two	The George Shearing Quintet	1962
31	Cocktails for Two	Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra	1963
32	Cocktails for Two	Marian McPartland	1969
33	Cocktails for Two	Joe Turner [1]	1976
34	Cocktails for Two	Danny Stiles 5 featuring Bill Watrous	1978
35	Cocktails for Two	David Allyn, Orchestra Arranged and Conducted by Johnny Mandel	1978
36	Cocktails for Two	Joe Albany	1979
37	Cocktails for Two	Sammy Price	1980
38	Cocktails for Two	Lol Coxhill	1985
39	Cocktails for Two	Scott Hamilton, Jake Hanna, Dave McKenna	1986
40	Cocktails for Two	Mike Jones	1993
41	Cocktails for Two	Javon Jackson, Billy Pierce, Kirk Lightsey, Christian McBride, Louis Hayes	1997
42	Cocktails for Two	Bennie Wallace With Kenny Barron and Eddie Gomez	2004
43	Cocktails for Two	Harry Allen, Joe Temperley, John Bunch, Greg Cohen, Jake Hanna	July 17, 2007
44	Cocktails for Two	Rick Trolsen	2007
45	Cocktails for Two	Rob Schneiderman, Charles McPherson, Todd Coolman, Leroy Williams	May 20, 2008
46	Cocktails for Two	Les Shelleys	2010