When Your Lover Has Gone

"When Your Lover Has Gone"
"When Your Lover Has Gone"
Song
Published	1931
Genre	Jazz
Songwriter	Einar Aaron Swan

Published1931

GenreJazz

SongwriterEinar Aaron Swan

"When Your Lover Has Gone" is a 1931 composition by Einar Aaron Swan which, after being featured in the James Cagney film Blonde Crazy that same year, has become a jazz standard.

Year	Artist	Album
1931	Gene Austin	Recorded February 5, 1931, for Victor Records, catalog No. 22635.^[1] Very popular in 1931.^[2]
1931	Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra	Recorded on April 28, 1931. Label: OKeh – 41498.^[3]
1931	Ethel Waters	Recorded February 10, 1931, for Columbia Records, catalog 2409D.^[4] Ethel Waters' Greatest Years (Columbia, 1972); part of the John Hammond Collection
1931	Benny Goodman & His Orchestra	Recorded February 5, 1931, for Melotone Records, catalog No.12120.^[5]
1942	Maxine Sullivan with Charlie Shavers and His Orchestra	Recorded January 28, 1942, for Decca Records, catalog. No. 18555A.^[6] 7-inch LP, Jazztone (J-737)
1944	Eddie Condon All Stars with Lee Wiley	Recorded December 13, 1944, for Decca Records, catalog No. 23393A.^[7] Eddie Condon All Stars 1945
1944	Harry James & His Orchestra	Recorded November 24, 1944, for Columbia Records, catalog No. 36773.^[8]
1945	Irving Fazola's Dixielanders	Keynote recording, New Orleans Express (1955)
1947	Wild Bill Davison	Sweet and Hot^[9]
1949	Doris Day	You're My Thrill
1952	George Wallington Trio	Recorded September 4, 1952.^[10]
1953	Buddy DeFranco	Jazz Tones
1953	Roy Eldridge with the Oscar Peterson Trio	Dale's Wail
1955	Claire Austin	Claire Austin Sings "When Your Lover Has Gone"^[11]
1955	Earl Bostic and His Orchestra	Alto-tude
1955	Don Elliott and Rusty Dedrick	Counterpoint for Six Valves (a.k.a. Double Trumpet Doings)
1955	Urbie Green	The Lyrical Language of Urbie Green (1978).
1955	Johnny Hartman	Songs from the Heart^[12]
1955	Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra	Velvet Mood
1955	Frank Sinatra	In the Wee Small Hours^[13]
1955	Art Tatum (piano solo)	The Incomparable Art Tatum (piano solo)^[14]
1956	Art Farmer	2 Trumpets (with Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean)
1956	Herb Jeffries	Say It Isn't So^[15]
1956	Chico Hamilton Quintet	Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi Fi
1956	Morgana King	Morgana King Sings the Blues (1958).^[16]
1956	Julie London	Lonely Girl
1956	Sonny Rollins	Tenor Madness
1957	Louis Armstrong	I've Got the World on a String
1957	Nat King Cole	Just One of Those Things
1957	Jazz Giants '58: Harry Edison, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Louis Bellson and the O. Peterson Trio	Jazz Giants '58 (Verve)
1957	Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker	Reunion with Chet Baker
1957	Keely Smith	I Wish You Love^[17]
1957	Julie Wilson	My Old Flame^[18]
1958	Billie Holiday	Broadcast Performances, Vol. 3: 1956-1958 (also rel. on DVD); May 29 and July 17 on TV at Art Ford's Jazz Party
1958	Billie Holiday with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra	Sept. 29, live at the Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York City
1958	Billie Holiday	At Monterey / 1958 (1986) Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Oct. 5
1958	Sue Raney	When Your Lover Has Gone
1959	The Four Freshmen	Love Lost
1959	Ray Charles	The Genius of Ray Charles
1959	Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Shirley Scott	Bacalao^[19]
1959	Herb Ellis with Jimmy Giuffre	Herb Ellis Meets Jimmy Giuffre
1959	Red Garland Trio with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis	Moodsville Volume 1
1959	Lee Konitz with Jimmy Giuffre	Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre
1959	Carmen McRae	When You're Away^[20]
1959	Ben Webster with the Oscar Peterson Trio	Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
1959	Mary Osborne	A Girl and Her Guitar
1959	Andy Williams	Lonely Street
1960	Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers	A Night in Tunisia (first release on reissue in 1989)
1960	Ricky Nelson	More Songs by Ricky
1960	Jimmy Forrest	Forrest Fire
1960	Red Garland	Red Alone
1960	Anthony Newley	Love Is a Now and Then Thing^[21]
1961	Sarah Vaughan	The Divine One^[22]
1961	Stan Kenton	The Romantic Approach
1961	Dinah Washington with Quincy Jones and His Orchestra	I Wanna Be Loved^[23]
1962	Ella Fitzgerald with Nelson Riddle	Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
1963	Vic Damone	The Liveliest at the Basin Street East
1963	Kate Smith	Kate Smith at Carnegie Hall^[24]
1964	Marvin Gaye	When I'm Alone I Cry
1964	Brenda Lee	..."Let Me Sing"
1965	Chet Baker	Baker's Holiday (Chet Baker Sings and Plays Billie Holiday)
1968	Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band	All Smiles (a.k.a. Let's Face the Music)
1975	Ella Fitzgerald with Oscar Peterson	Ella and Oscar
1975	Joe Pass	Virtuoso in New York (2004)
1978	Diahann Carroll with the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington	A Tribute to Ethel Waters
1978	Sarah Vaughan	How Long Has This Been Going On?
1979	Art Van Damme Quintet	Blue World
1981	Sarah Vaughan and the Count Basie Orchestra	Send in the Clowns
1984	Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle	Lush Life
1989	Ella Fitzgerald	All That Jazz; Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female 1991
1989	Mina	Uiallalla
1990	Carly Simon	My Romance
1991	Melora Hardin	The Rocketeer (film) soundtrack
1991	Dorothy Loudon	Saloon
1992	Joe Pass	Meditation (2002)
1997	Carmen Lundy	Old Devil Moon
1997	Johnny Holiday	Johnny Holiday Sings^[25]
2000	June Christy with the Johnny Guarnieri Quintet	A Friendly Session, Vol. 3
2001	Stacey Kent	Dreamsville
2002	Derek Bailey	Ballads
2004	Kevin Spacey with John Wilson & The Orchestra	Beyond the Sea O.S.T.

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Discography
Columbia singles (1939–1940)	"It's Funny to Everyone but Me" "On a Little Street in Singapore" "Ciribiribin" "All or Nothing at All"
RCA Victor singles (1940–1942)	"Imagination" "I'll Be Seeing You" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "I'll Never Smile Again" "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" "Our Love Affair" "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" "Stardust" "Dolores" "It's Always You" "Oh! Look at Me Now" "Without a Song" "Let's Get Away from It All" "This Love of Mine" "Blue Skies" "Pale Moon (An Indian Love Song)" "Embraceable You" "Just as Though You Were Here" "Take Me" "In the Blue of Evening" "How About You?" "There Are Such Things"
Bluebird singles (1942–1943)	"Night and Day" "The Night We Called It a Day" "The Song Is You"
Columbia singles (1943–1953)	"Close to You" "You'll Never Know" "Sunday, Monday, or Always" "People Will Say We're in Love" "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" "White Christmas" "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "Ol' Man River" "Stormy Weather" "When Your Lover Has Gone" "Dream" "If I Loved You" "You'll Never Walk Alone" "Mighty Lak' a Rose" "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)" "America the Beautiful" "Day by Day" "Full Moon and Empty Arms" "Soliloquy (Part 1 & 2)" "Begin the Beguine" "Silent Night" "Adeste Fideles" "Jingle Bells" "Oh! What It Seemed to Be" "September Song" "Five Minutes More" "Sweet Lorraine" "Time after Time" "Mam'selle" "Almost Like Being in Love" "Tea for Two" "My Romance" "So Far" "A Fellow Needs a Girl" "But Beautiful" "I've Got a Crush on You" "All of Me" "Nature Boy" "Everybody Loves Somebody" "My Melancholy Baby" "Autumn in New York" "Why Can't You Behave?" "Some Enchanted Evening" "Bali Ha'i" "Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk" "I Only Have Eyes for You" "The Old Master Painter" "Peachtree Street" "Goodnight, Irene" "Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)" "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" "We Kiss in a Shadow" "April in Paris" "I Could Write a Book" "The Birth of the Blues"
Capitol singles (1953–1961)	"I'm Walking Behind You" "I've Got the World on a String" "My One and Only Love" "South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)" "I Love You" "Young at Heart" "Don't Worry 'bout Me" "Three Coins in the Fountain" "The Gal That Got Away" "Someone to Watch Over Me" "Melody of Love" "Learnin' the Blues" "Love and Marriage" "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" "You're Sensational" "True Love" "Well, Did You Evah!" "Mind If I Make Love to You?" "Hey! Jealous Lover" "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" "All the Way" "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" "Witchcraft" "Mistletoe and Holly" "French Foreign Legion" "High Hopes" "Old MacDonald" "My Blue Heaven" "I'll Remember April" "I Love Paris"
Reprise singles (1961–1983)	"Granada" "I'll Be Seeing You" "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" "Without a Song" "Stardust" "Come Rain or Come Shine" "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" "Me and My Shadow" "Call Me Irresponsible" "I Have Dreamed" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "My Kind of Town" "Softly, as I Leave You" "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" "The Little Drummer Boy" "It Was a Very Good Year" "Strangers in the Night" "Summer Wind" "You Make Me Feel So Young" "That's Life" "The September of My Years" "Somethin' Stupid" "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" "My Way of Life" "My Way" "Goin' Out of My Head" "Something" "Bein' Green" "Send In the Clowns" "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" "Theme from New York, New York" "Here's to the Band" "To Love a Child"
Qwest singles (1983–1984)	"Teach Me Tonight" "Mack the Knife" "It's All Right with Me" "Until the Real Thing Comes Along"
Compositions	"This Love of Mine" "Sheila" "Peachtree Street" "Take My Love" "I'm a Fool to Want You" "Mistletoe and Holly" "Mr. Success"
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