Recording: A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody

Performed by
Don Byas
Recording date
July 4, 1950
First release
On Audio single Summertime (1950)
Rating

Song info

Song
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
Written by
Irving Berlin
First performance
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody by John Steel in stage production Ziegfield Follies of 1919 (June 23, 1919)
First recording
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody by John Steel (June 30, 1919)
Language
English

Versions

Title Performer Release date down Info
1 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody John Steel June 23, 1919 (performance date)
2 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody John Steel 1919
3 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Samuel Ash 1919
4 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Red Nichols & His Five Pennies 1929
5 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees 1935
6 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Artie Shaw and His Orchestra 1936
7 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Seger Ellis & His Orchestra 1937
8 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Eddie South and His Orchestra 1940
9 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Kenny Baker 1940
10 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody George Shearing 1942
11 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Wayne King and His Orchestra 1946
12 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Larry Clinton & His Orchestra 1947
13 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra 1949
14 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Don Byas 1950
15 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Eddie Heywood 1951
16 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Earl Hines and His Orchestra 1953
17 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Lou Stein 1956
18 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Pat Boone October 1957
19 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Hazy Osterwald 1958
20 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Steve Allen 1959
21 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Larry Elgart and His Orchestra 1960
22 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody The Arthur Kay Ensemble 1960
23 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody The Lee Konitz Nonet 1977
24 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Svend Asmussen, featuring Derek Smith, Bucky Pizzarelli, Oliver Jackson, Jr., Milt Hinton 1984
25 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Scott Hamilton, Jake Hanna, Dave McKenna 1986
26 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Ralph Sharon Trio 1992
27 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Adam Makowicz 1992
28 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Nick Brignola, Kenny Barron, Rufus Reid, Victor Lewis 1997
29 A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Beegie Adair 2006

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