You Better Go Now (song)

"You Better Go Now" is a jazz standard written by Bickley Reichner and Irvin Graham.^[1][2] It was released in 1936,^[1] and written for the musical New Faces of 1937.^[3][4] It has been covered by many notable jazz singers, with probably the most known version sung by Billie Holiday in 1945,^[5][6] with a live version recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1947.^[7][6] and another live version with the Percy Faith and the Woolworth Orchestra in 1957 for the CBS radio show The Woolworth Jazz Hour (although some sources erroneously state the recording date as December 9, 1956).^[6][8] The first recorded performance of the song was by Katharyn Mayfield with Robert Bard in 1936^[9] in the musical New Faces of 1936. The lyrics express intense attraction between the singer and her partner, but the singer urges her partner to leave because she likes them "much too much," suggesting a desire to avoid inevitable heartbreak or complications.