Song: The Nearness of You

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Language

English

Comments

Despite accounts to the contrary, “The Nearness of You” was never scheduled to be included in the 1938 Paramount film Romance in the Dark.

Originals

First recording

The Nearness of You by Chick Bullock & His Orchestra (April 26, 1940)

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	The Nearness of You	Chick Bullock & His Orchestra	1940
2	The Nearness of You	Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians	1940
3	The Nearness of You	Eddy Howard	1940
4	The Nearness of You	Dinah Shore	1940
5	The Nearness of You	Larry Clinton & His Orchestra	1940
6	The Nearness of You	Connie Boswell	1940
7	The Nearness of You	Kay Kyser & His Orchestra	1940
8	The Nearness of You	Elisabeth Welch with Orchestra	1940
9	The Nearness of You	Glenn Miller and His Orchestra	1940
10	The Nearness of You	Sarah Vaughan	1950
11	The Nearness of You	Bob Manning with Orchestra Conducted by Monty Kelly	February 1953
12	The Nearness of You	Muriel Smith Accompanied by Wally Stott and His Orchestra	1953
13	The Nearness of You	Jackie Gleason	1954
14	The Nearness of You	Bill Doggett	1955
15	The Nearness of You	Milt Jackson	1955
16	The Nearness of You	Frank Morgan	1955
17	The Nearness of You	Nellie Lutcher	1956
18	Nearness of You	Mat Mathews	1956
19	The Nearness of You	Patti Page	1956
20	The Nearness of You	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	1956
21	The Nearness of You	The Cal Tjader Quintet	1956
22	The Nearness of You	Sonny Stitt	1957
23	The Nearness of You	Julie London	1957
24	The Nearness of You	Roland Kirk	1957
25	The Nearness of You	Gary Crosby, Orchestra Conducted by Bud Shank	1957
26	The Nearness of You	Lee Konitz	1958
27	The Nearness of You	Helen Merrill	1958
28	The Nearness of You	Della Reese	1958
29	The Nearness of You	Joe Albany, Warne Marsh	1958
30	The Nearness of You	Faron Young	1958
31	The Nearness of You	Pat Boone	April 1959
32	The Nearness of You	Keely Smith with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra	1959
33	The Nearness of You	Mary Martin	1959
34	The Nearness of You	Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge	1959
35	The Nearness of You	Brook Benton	1959
36	The Nearness of You	Maureen O'Hara	1959
37	The Nearness of You	The George Shearing and His Quintet	1960
38	The Nearness of You	Bev Kelly	1960
39	The Nearness of You	Noro Morales and His Quintet	1960
40	The Nearness of You	Lou Donaldson	1960
41	The Nearness of You	Shirley Bassey	1961
42	The Nearness of You	Blue Mitchell with Strings and Brass	1961
43	The Nearness of You	King Curtis	1961
44	The Nearness of You	The George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson	1961
45	The Nearness of You	Johnny "Guitar" Watson	1962
46	The Nearness of You	Art Van Damme	1962
47	The Nearness of You	Rick Nelson	December 9, 1963
48	The Nearness of You	Mina	April 1964
49	The Nearness of You	Pat Thomas	1964
50	The Nearness of You	Tony Mottola	1964
51	The Nearness of You	Peggy Lennon	1965
52	The Nearness of You	P.J. Proby	1965
53	The Nearness of You	Matt Monro	1965
54	The Nearness of You	Tom Jones	August 26, 1966
55	The Nearness of You	James Brown	April 1967
56	The Nearness of You	Barbra Streisand	October 1967
57	The Nearness of You	Johnny Lytle	1967
58	The Nearness of You	Ornella Vanoni	1968
59	The Nearness of You	Jerry Vale	1968
60	The Nearness of You	Rita Reys & Trio Pim Jacobs	1973
61	The Nearness of You	Ichiro Masuda Meets Hank Jones	1976
62	The Nearness of You	Houston Person	1978
63	The Nearness of You	George Melly	1978
64	The Nearness of You	Lennie Kesl, Alan Broadbent	1979
65	The Nearness of You	Lance Hayward	1981
66	The Nearness of You	Joe Pass	1983
67	The Nearness of You	Dave McKenna	1983
68	The Nearness of You	Amália Rodrigues	1984
69	Nearness of You	Arnett Cobb Tiny Grimes Quintet	1989
70	The Nearness of You	Lars Roos	1989
71	The Nearness of You	Paul Bley Trio	1989
72	The Nearness of You	Branford Marsalis	1989
73	The Nearness of You	Steve Nelson [1]	1990
74	The Nearness of You	Pharoah Sanders	1991
75	The Nearness of You	Jessica Williams	1992
76	The Nearness of You	Sheena Easton	1993
77	The Nearness of You	Melanie Marshall	1993
78	The Nearness of You	Kenny Rogers	October 1994
79	The Nearness of You	Jay Hoggard	1994
80	The Nearness of You	Eartha Kitt	1994
81	The Nearness of You	Etta James	May 9, 1995
82	Nearness of You	Chiaki Ogasawara	1995
83	The Nearness of You	Marlena Shaw	1996
84	The Nearness of You	David Linx	1997
85	The Nearness of You	Vic Damone	1997
86	The Nearness of You	Will Downing & Gerald Albright	1998
87	The Nearness of You	Mark Maxwell	1998
88	The Nearness of You	Maureen McGovern with Mike Renzi	1998
89	The Nearness of You	Milt Jackson Meets the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra	February 23, 1999
90	The Nearness of You	Fred Hersch	1999
91	The Nearness of You	Crystal Gayle	1999
92	The Nearness of You	Martin Taylor	2000
93	The Nearness of You	The Dave Glasser Clark Terry Barry Harris Project	2000
94	The Nearness of You	Janet Seidel and William Galison	2001
95	The Nearness of You	Denise King	2001
96	The Nearness of You	Lynne Arriale Trio	February 5, 2002
97	The Nearness of You	Bill Charlap	April 9, 2002
98	The Nearness of You	Rod Stewart	October 22, 2002
99	The Nearness of You	Lisa Lindo	2002
100	The Nearness of You	Norah Jones	2002
101	The Nearness of You	Steve Tyrell	October 28, 2003
102	The Nearness of You	Al Jarreau	August 3, 2004
103	The Nearness of You	Nicole Henry	2004
104	The Nearness of You	Bennie Wallace With Kenny Barron and Eddie Gomez	2004
105	The Nearness of You	The Rolling Stones	2004
106	The Nearness of You	Lorie Line	2004
107	The Nearness of You	Brad Mehldau Trio	2004
108	Nearness of You	Sony Holland	2006
109	The Nearness of You	Colleen Pratt with The Empire Jazz Orchestra	2007
110	The Nearness of You	Barry Crocker	2007
111	The Nearness of You	La Tanya Hall	December 9, 2008
112	The Nearness of You	Willie Nelson	August 21, 2009
113	The Nearness of You	Lily Alunan	2009
114	The Nearness of You	Emile Pandolfi	2010
115	The Nearness of You	Ruby Wilson	2010
116	Nearness of You	Lisa Lindsley	March 8, 2011
117	The Nearness of You	David and Rachel Diggs	2012

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