My One and Only Love

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My One and Only Love (m. Guy Wood, w. Robert Mellin)

In 1947, the song was published as “Music From Beyond the Moon,” with music by Guy B. Wood and words by Jack Lawrence. Recordings of the song with the original lyric include the following, none of which were hits:

• Jack Fina’s Music, with vocal by Harry Prime — issued in 1947 on MGM 10122 (sources: 1,2,3,4), c/w “Song of New Orleans”
• Vic Damone with music by Camarata* — recorded on 4 October 1947; issued on Mercury 5072, c/w “I’ll Always Be in Love With You”
• Tony Martin with Earle Hagen and his Orchestra — recorded in 1948; issued on RCA Victor 20-2914, b/w “If I Had You”
  

See the following article, by Mark Steyn, regarding the creation of each of the two different lyric versions of the song:

• My One And Only Love — Sinatra Song of the Century #28 @ SteynOnline.com

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Music From Beyond the Moon — selected recordings

Jack Fina’s Music, with vocal by Harry Prime — issued in 1947 on MGM 10122 (sources: 1,2,3,4), c/w “Song of New Orleans”

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audio file, VBR MP3 (6.2 MB), from the page Music From Beyond the Moon, at archive.org:

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Vic Damone with music by Camarata — recorded on 4 October 1947; issued on Mercury 5072, c/w “I’ll Always Be in Love With You”

audio file, VBR MP3 (5.3 MB), from the page Music From Beyond the Moon, at archive.org:

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audio file, VBR MP3 (5.4 MB), from the page MUSIC FROM BEYOND THE MOON, at archive.org:

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Tony Martin with Earle Hagen and his Orchestra — recorded in 1948; issued on RCA Victor 20-2914, b/w “If I Had You”

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My One and Only Love — selected recordings

In 1952, Robert Mellin wrote a new lyric. Frank Sinatra got the reworked song off to a good start with a hit recording in 1953.

Frank Sinatra – arrangement: Nelson Riddle; recorded on 2 May 1953, and issued on 15 June 1953 on the 45 rpm single Capitol F2505 (45cat.com, Discogs.com), and on Capitol 2505 (78 rpm), coupled in each case with “I’ve Got the World on a String” — In the UK it was issued in December 1953 on the 10″ 78 rpm single Capitol CL.14023, as the B-side of “From Here to Eternity”

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Ella Fitzgerald, with Orchestra directed by Camarata — issued in November 1955 on the single Decca 9-29746, b/w “(Love is) The Tender Trap”

audio file, VBR MP3 (4.5 MB), from the page My One and Only Love at archive.org:

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Art Tatum – Ben Webster Quartet – Los Angeles, CA, 11 September 1956 — Ben Webster (ts) Art Tatum (p) Red Callender (b) Bill Douglas (d)

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Roy Hamilton – from Hamilton’s 1958 LP With All My Love, (US, Canada) Epic BN 518 (Stereo), Epic LN 3519 (Mono); music arranged and conducted by Neal Hefti — also issued 29 September on the single Epic 5-9294, as the B-side of “Pledging My Love”

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June Christy — from the 1958 album June’s Got Rhythm, Capitol Records ST-1076

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Anna Maria Alberghetti – from her 1960 album Warm and Willing; arranged by Nelson Riddle. Alberghetti had previously recorded the song for her 1957 LP I Can’t Resist You.

From a review by Byron Kolln (dated 8 June 2010) at Amazon.com, of a 2010 reissue of Warm and Willing on the UK-based Flare label:

Anna Maria Alberghetti’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical debut in “Carnival!” was literally just around the corner when the talented, classically-trained singer recorded this 1960 jazz-flavoured album with arranger Nelson Riddle. Just as he’d also do to spectacular effect with Rosemary Clooney, Riddle coaxed a lush, almost hyper-romantic timbre from Alberghetti, and created a sophisticated sound for the operatic former child prodigy.

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Grant Green Quintet – recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, on 1 March 1962; released in 1985 on the album Born to Be Blue (Discogs.com, Wikipedia)

Grant Grant – guitar
Ike Quebec – tenor sax
Sonny Clark – piano
Sam Jones – bass
Louis Hayes – drums

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Doris Day and the André Previn Trio – from their 1962 collaboration, Duet

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John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman — from the album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, recorded on 7 March 1963

• John Coltrane – tenor sax
• Jimmy Garrison – double bass
• Johnny Hartman – vocals
• Elvin Jones – drums
• McCoy Tyner – piano

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Dean Martin – from his 1962 album Cha Cha de Amor

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Nancy Wilson – from her LP Gentle is My Love, released in 1965

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Oscar Peterson — solo, date unknown

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Pharoah Sanders – from the 1990 album Welcome To Love —  Pharoah Sanders (ts), William Henderson (p), Stafford James (b), Eccleston W. Wainwright (d)

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Jamie Cullum Trio – from the album Heard it All Before, released in 1999, three years before Cullum’s first major record label release

• Jamie Cullum – piano and vocals
• Raph Mizraki – bass
• Julian Jackson – drums

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Roy Haynes Trio – Heineken Jazzaldia, San Sebastian Jazz Festival, Spain, July 2009

John Patitucci – bass
Dave Kikoski – piano
Roy Haynes –  drums

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* Camarata — Salvatore “Tutti” Camarata

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