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Once in a While (1937 song)

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"Once in a While" is a popular song, written by Michael Edwards with lyrics by Bud Green. The song was published in 1937. The song is a much-recorded standard.

Popular recordings[edit]

Tommy Dorsey's recording in 1937 went to number one in the United States.^[1]
One of the best-known recordings was made by Patti Page in 1952 (on Mercury 5867).
The song was revived in doo-wop style by the Chimes in 1960, and their version peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1961.^[1]

"Once In Awhile"

SinglebyThe Chimes

B-side

"Summer Night"

Released

October 1960

Recorded

1960

Genre

Doo-wop

Length

2:30

Label

Tag

Songwriter(s)

Michael Edwards

The Chimes singles chronology

"Once In Awhile"
(1960)

"Only Love"
(1961)

Other recordings[edit]

Year	Performer	Album	Source
1937	Louis Armstrong		^[2]
1947	Sarah Vaughan		^[3]
1951	The Dinning Sisters		^[4]
1954	The Art Blakey Quintet	A Night at Birdland, Volume 1	^[5]
1954	Sonny Clark	Jimmy Raney Visits Paris, Volume 1	^[6]
1957	The Pied Pipers	A Tribute to Tommy Dorsey	^[7]
1958	Lem Winchester and Ramsey Lewis	A Tribute to Clifford Brown	^[8]
1961	Fats Domino	I Miss You So	^[9]
1968	Ella Fitzgerald	30 by Ella	^[10]
1974	Dean Martin	Once in a While
1976	Bing Crosby	Feels Good, Feels Right	^[11]
1977	Liza Minnelli	New York, New York
1984	Elkie Brooks	Screen Gems	^[12]
1986	Cleo Laine	That Old Feeling	^[13]
2010	Mose Allison	The Way of the World	^[14]
2011	Eddie Vedder	Ukulele Songs	^[15]
2019	Seth MacFarlane	Once in a While	^[16]

Popular culture[edit]

At the end of the instrumental "Stucco Homes" on the third volume of Frank Zappa's 1981 album Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, drummer Terry Bozzio sings the hook of this song.^[17]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard book of top 40 hits (6 ed.). New York: Billboard Books. p. 123. ISBN 0-8230-7632-6.

^ "Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra". The Red Hot Jazz Archive. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2017.

^ "1947-1949 - Sarah Vaughan". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

^ "The Best of the Dinning Sisters". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

^ "A Night at Birdland, Volume 1". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

^ "Jimmy Raney Visits Paris, Volume 1". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2024.

^ "A Tribute to Tommy Dorsey - The Pied Pipers". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 June 2019.

^ "Tribute to Clifford Brown - Lem Winchester,Ramsey Lewis Trio". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

^ "Fats Domino - I Miss You So (Imperial LP-9138, January 1961)". musicbrainz.org. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

^ "30 by Ella". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

^ "Feels Good, Feels Right - Bing Crosby". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

^ "Screen Gems - Elkie Brooks". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

^ "That Old Feeling - Cleo Laine". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

^ "The Way of the World - Mose Allison". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

^ "Ukulele Songs - Eddie Vedder". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 February 2017.

^ "Once in a While – Seth MacFarlane on iTunes". US: iTunes Store. Archived from the original on August 26, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2017.

^ "Shut up 'N Play Yer Guitar – Box Set". Archived from the original on 2016-04-27.

v t e Tommy Dorsey
Studio albums	The One and Only Tommy Dorsey (1961) Tommy Dorsey's Dance Party (1966) Tommy Dorsey (1937–1941) (1976) Yes Indeed! (1990)
Compilation albums	Up Swing (1944) Smoke Rings (1944) Starmaker (1944) The Dorsey/Sinatra Sessions (1982) Music Goes Round and Round (1991) Stop, Look and Listen (1994) This Is Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1 (2001) It's D'Lovely 1947–1950 (2004)
Songs	"Boogie Woogie" "Dolores" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "For Sentimental Reasons" "The Hucklebuck" "I Can Dream, Can't I?" "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Never Smile Again" "Imagination" "In the Blue of Evening" "In the Middle of a Dream" "Indian Summer" "It's Always You" "Just as Though You Were Here" "Let's Get Away from It All" "The Morning After" "Oh! Look at Me Now" "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" "Once in a While" "Only Forever" "Our Love Affair" "Sleep" "Stardust" "Take Me" "There Are Such Things" "This Is No Dream" "This Love of Mine" "To You" "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" "Yes, Indeed!" "You Taught Me to Love Again"
The Dorsey Brothers	"Annie's Cousin Fannie" "Tomorrow's Another Day" "Harlem Chapel Chimes" "Dese Dem Dose"
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