Recording: Once in a While

Performed by

Johnny Mathis

First release

On Audio album Once in a While (1988)

Rating

Song info

Song

Once in a While

Music written by

Michael Edwards

Lyrics written by

Bud Green

First release

Once in a While by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra on audio single Once in a While (1937)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Once in a While	Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra	1937
2	Once in a While	Greta Keller	1938
3	Once in a While	Don Byas	1945
4	Once in a While	The Ravens	July 1948
5	Once in a While	Dinah Shore	1948
6	Once in a While	Dorothy Squires	1950
7	Once in a While	Jackie Gleason	1954
8	Once in a While	George Wein	1955
9	Once in a While	Erroll Garner	1955
10	Once in a While	Pete Rugolo	1956
11	Once in a While	Sam (The Man) Taylor and His Orchestra	1957
12	Once in a While	Nat "King" Cole	1957
13	Once in a While	Dean Martin	1957
14	Once in a While	Carl Halen's Gin Bottle Seven	1958
15	Once in a While	Bill Harris [1]	1959
16	Once in a While	Julian Priester With Jimmy Heath, Tommy Flanagan, Sam Jones [1], Elvin Jones	1960
17	Once in a While	Stan Kenton	1961
18	Once in a While	Lionel Hampton	1961
19	Once in a While	Shirley Scott Trio	1961
20	Once in a While	Timi Yuro	1962
21	Once in Awhile	Henry Jerome, His Chorus and Orchestra	1963
22	Once in a While	Monty Sunshine His Clarinet and His Band	1964
23	Once in a While	The Roland Kirk Quartet	1965
24	Once in a While	Vic Dana	1965
25	Once in a While	Johnny Hartman	1966
26	Once in a While	Arne Domnérus Quintet	1966
27	Once in a While	Jack Jones	1977
28	Once in a While	Cambridge City Jassband	1978
29	Once in a While	Octopus [1]	1978
30	Once in a While	Willie Nelson	October 1983
31	Once in a While	Acker Bilk	1983
32	Once in a While	Pat Terry Jr.	1983
33	Once in a While	Elkie Brooks	1984
34	Once in a While	Johnny Mathis	1988
35	Once in a While	Houston Person, Ron Carter	1990
36	Once in a While	Toots Thielemans With The Shirley Horn Trio	1991
37	Once in a While	Jeff Jarvis	1994
38	Once in a While	Weslia Whitfield with the Mike Greensill Trio	1995
39	Once in a While	Dave McKenna, Joe Temperley	1996
40	Once in a While	Reuben Wilson	August 11, 2009
41	Once in a While	Eddie Vedder	May 31, 2011