Recording: Give Me the Simple Life

Performed by
Ella Fitzgerald
Recording date
October 1968
First release
On Audio album Sunshine of Your Love (1969)
Rating

Song info

Song
Give Me the Simple Life
Music written by
Rube Bloom
Lyrics written by
Harry Ruby
First performance
Give Me the Simple Life by June Haver (December 2, 1946)
First recording
Give Me the Simple Life by Bing Crosby and Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra (August 29, 1945)
First release
Give Me the Simple Life by Bing Crosby and Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra on audio single Give Me the Simple Life (1945)
Language
English

Versions

Title Performer Release date down Info
1 Give Me the Simple Life Bing Crosby and Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra 1945
2 Give Me the Simple Life June Haver December 2, 1946 (performance date)
3 Give Me the Simple Life Tony Bennett February 28, 1955
4 Give Me the Simple Life Carmen McRae 1955
5 Give Me the Simple Life J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding 1955
6 Give Me the Simple Life Ralph Sharon Trio 1956
7 Give Me the Simple Life Jerri Adams 1956
8 Give Me the Simple Life The Four Freshmen 1957
9 Give Me the Simple Life June Christy 1957
10 Give Me the Simple Life Dakota Staton 1957
11 Give Me the Simple Life Maynard Ferguson 1957
12 Give Me the Simple Life Pim and Ruud Jacobs (Piano and Bass) with Various Instrumental Accompaniments 1958
13 Give Me the Simple Life Marian McPartland 1958
14 Give Me the Simple Life Annie Ross, The Gerry Mulligan Quartet 1959
15 Give Me the Simple Life Rosemary Clooney 1960
16 Give Me the Simple Life Mavis Rivers, Arranged and Conducted by Dick Reynolds 1960
17 Give Me the Simple Life Phineas Newborn Jr. 1960
18 Give Me the Simple Life Debbie Reynolds 1960
19 Give Me the Simple Life Lorez Alexandria 1962
20 Give Me the Simple Life Leroy Kirkland 1962
21 Give Me the Simple Life Ella Fitzgerald 1969
22 Give Me the Simple Life Martha Miyake with Teddy Wilson 1972
23 Give Me the Simple Life George Shearing and Mel Tormé 1982
24 Give Me the Simple Life Weslia Whitfield with Mike Greensill Quartet, featuring Noel Jewkes 1989
25 Give Me the Simple Life Susan Krebs August 3, 1999
26 Give me the Simple Life Steve Tyrell September 21, 1999
27 Give Me the Simple Life Hanna Richardson With The Phil Flanigan Sextet 2002
28 Give Me the Simple Life Lyle Ritz, Rebecca Kilgore 2007
29 Give Me the Simple Life Dawn Lambeth 2007
30 Give Me the Simple Life Diane Hubka 2008

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