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You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1943 film Something to Shout About, where it was introduced by Janet Blair and Don Ameche. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1943 but lost^[3] to "You'll Never Know".

Other recordings[edit]

• Dinah Shore had a hit with the song at the time of its introduction.^[3][4]
• Helen Merrill with Clifford Brown – Helen Merrill (1954)^[3]
• Cannonball Adderley – Compact Jazz - Capitol - (1955)^[3]
• Frankie Laine - Jazz Spectacular (1956)^[5]
• Art Pepper – Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957)^[3]
• Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster – Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)^[3]
• Frank Sinatra – A Swingin' Affair! (1957)^[6]
• Sonny Stitt - Personal Appearance (1957)^[7]
• Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney recorded the song for their radio show in 1958^[8] and it was released on the album Bing & Rosie – The Crosby-Clooney Radio Sessions (2010).^[9]
• Johnny Mathis - on his album, Swing Softly (1958)^[10]
• Wes Montgomery – One Night in Indy -Resonance- Recorded live in 1959 (released 2016)^[11]
• Sarah Vaughan - for the album After Hours at the London House (1959)^[12]
• Anita O'Day - included on her album Anita O'Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May (1959)^[13]
• Nina Simone – Nina Simone at Newport (1960)^[3]
• Jo Stafford with Ben Webster – Jo + Jazz (1960)^[3]
• Al Cohn and Zoot Sims – You 'n' Me (1960)^[14]
• Julie London – Julie...At Home (1960)^[15]
• The Coasters – One by One (1960)^[16]
• Lee Konitz – Motion (1961)^[3]
• Jim Hall with Chet Baker and Paul Desmond – Concierto – (1975)^[3]
• Miki Matsubara - Blue Eyes (1984).^[17]
• Susannah McCorkle- Easy to Love: The Songs of Cole Porter (1996)^[18]
• Joey DeFrancesco – Singin' and Swingin' (1999)^[3]
• Dick Hyman and Randy Sandke – Now & Again (2004)^[3]
• John Barrowman - Swings Cole Porter (2004)^[19]
• Tina May, accompanied by pianist Nikki Iles – A Wing and a Prayer (2006)^[20]
• Jacky Terrasson – Push (2010)^[21]
• Xiu Xiu – Nina (2013)^[22]
• Harry Connick Jr. - True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter. (2019)^[23]
• Marisa Anderson & Tara Jane O'Neil (2020)^[24]
• Bernie Dresel – The Pugilist (2021)^[25]

References[edit]

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