You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To is a song from the musical film 1943er Something to Shout About, which was sung by Don Ameche and Janet Blair as a duet. Cole Porter composed it (music and text) already in 1942.

Dinah Shore recorded the song in 1942 and thus landed a hit. In 1943, Frank Sinatra the song to his repertoire. He became a popular jazz standard of the swing and later of Modern Jazz by him. Of the recordings in recent times the version of Helen Merrill on their Clifford Brown Brownie tribute is noteworthy.

Important shots

• Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1959 )
• Frank Sinatra - A Swingin ' Affair! (1957)
• Mel Tormé - An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982 )
• Jim Hall - Concierto (1975 )