Under a Blanket of Blue

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• page 1: selected recordings, 1933-1947
• page 2: selected recordings, 1947-1963
• page 3: list of selected recordings, 1933-1963 (this page)

List of recordings, 1933-1963, included in the feature

Under a Blanket of Blue (m. Jerry Livingston*, w. Al J. Neiburg and Marty Symes) — 1933 standard

page 1: selected recordings, 1933-1947

• Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, vocal: Kenny Sargent — issued in 1933 on the 10-inch 78 rpm single Brunswick 6584, b/w “Love Is the Thing,” both sides recorded on 26 May 1933
• Connie Boswell with orchestra directed by Victor Young — recorded in New York on 10 June 1933; issued on the 78 rpm 10-inch single Brunswick Records 6603, as the B-side of “The River’s Takin’ Care of Me” — sources: GuyMcAfee.com (Boswell Sisters and Connie Boswell discography), 78discography.com, RateYourMusic.com
• Don Bestor and his Orchestra, vocal: Florence Case — recorded on 15 June 1933; issued on Victor 24345, as the B-side of “Hold Your Man” (m. Nacio Herb Brown, w. Arthur Freed)
• Elmer Feldkamp and his Orchestra — recorded in June 1933; issued on Crown 3510, c/w “Morning, Noon and Night”
• Roy Fox and his Band (At the Kit-Kat Restaurant, London), vocal: Peggy Dell — issued in 1933 on (UK) Decca F.3632, as the B-side of “There’s a Cabin in the Pines” (Billy Hill); according to RateYourMusic.com, the two sides were recorded on 3-4 August 1933
• Joe Loss and his Band (at the Kit-Cat Restaurant, London), vocal: Jimmy Mesene (Messini) — recorded in London, England, 19 September 1933; issued on (UK) Edison Bell Winner 5594, b/w “Isn’t It Heavenly?”
• Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans, vocal: Harry Bentley — recorded in London, 9 October 1933; issued on the single (UK) Columbia Records CB 666
  
• The Southern Sisters — recorded in London on 10 October 1933; issued on the single (UK) Decca F.3690
• Layton & Johnstone — issued in December 1933 on the 78 rpm single (UK) Columbia DB 1253, b/w “Blue Moments (Without You Dear)”
• Paramount 6247 piano roll, played by Larry Arden — 1933
• Maxine Gray with orchestra directed by David Rose — radio transcription; from the 27 June 1940 episode of the California Melodies program (see Old Time Radio Downloads, Old Time Radio Catalog OTRCAT.com)
• Glenn Miller and his Orchestra — from the 19 December 1940 episode of the Chesterfield Cigarettes “Moonlight Serenade” radio series
• Coleman Hawkins Quintet — recorded in NYC on 17 October 1944; issued on the 78 rpm single Mercury 1098, b/w “China Boy” (B-side recorded by Herbie Haymer’s Orchestra)
• Dale Evans — in the 1945 musical western film Bells of Rosarita
• Barry Wood and The Melody Maids, with orchestra directed by Henry Sylvern — radio transcription; from, according to the video provider, a 1946 episode of The Barry Wood Show
• Woody Herman with orchestra; vocal Woody Herman — recorded in Los Angeles, CA, on 7 May 1947; released in October 1947 on the 4 x 10-inch disc set Eight Shades of Blue, Columbia CL-147; same track evidently reissued on the 1955 album Twelve Shades of Blue, Columbia CL 683

page 2: selected recordings, 1947-1963

• Red Norvo’s Nine — recorded on 14 October 1947; issued in May 1948 on Capitol 15083, b/w “Hollyridge Drive” (Benny Carter)
• Leslie Scott with Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra — NYC, 10 December 1947 — Coleman Hawkins, (tenor saxophone), Hank Jones (piano), Chuck Wayne (guitar), Jack Lesberg (bass), Max Roach (drums), Leslie Scott (vocals), unidentified strings
• Helen Forrest – accompanied by either the Carmen Dragon Orchestra or the Ray Bloch Orchestra, 1949-50; included on the 1993 CD album Helen Forrest On The Sunny Side Of The Street, Audiophile ACD-47
• Benny Goodman Sextet – recorded in New York on 30 July 1952; released on the 1954 album The New Benny Goodman Sextet, Columbia CL 552 — session personnel: Benny Goodman (cl), Terry Gibbs (vib), Teddy Wilson (p), Mundell Lowe (g), Sid Weiss (b), Don Lamond (d)
• Art Tatum – Benny Carter – Louis Bellson — recorded on 25 June 1954 in Los Angeles, CA; originally released on the 1958 album Makin’ Whoopee, Verve Records MG V-8227
• Stan Kenton – from the 1954 12-inch LP Portraits on Standards, Capitol T 462 —  The 10-inch album with the same title, Capitol H 462 (released in 1953), includes only eight of the twelve recordings found on the 12-inch LP, and “Under a Blanket of Blue” is not one of them.
• Bobby Hackett — from the 1955 LP Soft Lights and Bobby Hackett, Capitol Records T-458; the 1954 10-inch Bobby Hackett album of the same title (Capitol H-458) does not include this track
• Billy Tipton Trio — from the 1955 album Sweet Georgia Brown, Tops L1522
• Patti Page with Orchestra conducted by Jack Rael — from the 1956 LP Music for Two in Love, Mercury MG-20099
• Jane Froman — from the 1957 album Songs At Sunset, Capitol Records T889/T-889; also included on the 1957 EP Songs At Sunset, Part 2, Capitol EAP 2-889
• Doris Day — from her 1957 LP Day By Night, Columbia CL 1053
• Roberta Sherwood – from her 1957 album Show Stoppers, Decca DL 8426; also issued in 1957 on the EP Torch Songs – Show Stoppers, Decca ED 2475
• Charlene Bartley — from the 1957 album The Weekend of a Private Secretary, RCA Victor LPM-1478
• Lurlean Hunter, accompanied by Phil Moore and his Orchestra — from her 1958 LP Stepping Out, Vik ‎LX-1116; album recorded on 6, 8, and 10 May 1957
• The Lou McGarity Big Eight — originally released on the 1960 album Blue Lou, Argo LP 654, LP-654 (Mono), Argo LPS-654 (Stereo); album recorded 14 & 15 September 1959 at Bell Sound Studios in New York City
• Anita O’Day and Cal Tjader — from their 1962 Verve collaboration Time For Two; album recorded in Los Angeles, CA, 26-28 February 1962
• Gene Ammons Quartet — recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 14 April 1962 — Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone) Patti Bown (piano) George Duvivier (bass) Ed Shaughnessy (drums) — released on the 1963 LP The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons, US) Moodsville MVLP 28 (Mono), Moodsville MV 28, MVST 28 (Stereo)
• Ruth Olay — from the 1963 LP Olay! Okay!!, Everest 5218, LPBR 5218

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* credited under his birth name, Jerry Levinson

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