GONE WITH THE WIND
Music: Allie Wrubel– Lyrics: Herb Magidson
Year: 1937
Origin of the song
Margaret Mitchell published the novel Gone with the Wind on 30 June 1936. Little time later, the compositor Allie Wrubel and the songwriter Herb Magidson composed a song with this same title.
Wrubel and Magidson had written together in 1933 ‘The Sweetheart Song’ and, the following year, ‘Lullaby in Blue’. In 1937, they did it again with their greatest hit, ‘Gone with the Wind’. In 1938, their songs ‘Musica, Maestro, Please’ and ‘I’m Afraid the Masquerade Is Over’ did well again. Their last collaboration was in 1945 with ‘I’ll Buy That Dream’.
Herb Magidson wrote the lyrics of ‘The Continental’ for the film The Gay Divorcee (1934), the first song to win the Academy Award.
Allie Wrubel composed the music of the song ‘Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah’ for the film Song of the South (1946), which also won the Oscar for best song.
Versions in the top charts
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PERFORMERS |
DATE OF RECORDING |
DAY OF
ENTRANCE |
PERMANENCE WEEKS |
HIGH POSITION REACHED |
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Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians |
1937.05.28 |
1937.08.21 |
1 |
16 |
Carmen Lombardo (voc) |
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Claude Thornhill Orchestra |
1937.06.14 |
1937.08.21 |
1 |
19 |
Maxine Sullivan (voc) |
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1937.06.16 |
1937.07.03 |
9 |
1 (one week) |
Larry Cotton (voc) |
Jazz. Outstanding performances
Instrumental
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PERFORMERS |
DATE OF RECORDING |
MUSICIANS WHO TOOK IN THE RECORDING
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1937.11.29 |
Art Tatum (p) |
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1940.02.08 |
Benny Goodman (cl), Lionel Hampton (vib), Johnny Guarnieri (p), Charlie Christian (g), Artie Bernstein (b), Nick Fatool (d) |
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1946.??.??
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Don Byas (ts), Johnny Hodges (as), Billy Strayhorn (p), Remo Palmieri (g), Chubby Jackson (b), William 'Sonny' Grier (d), Leonard Feather (dir) |
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1950.05.17 |
Stan Getz (ts), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d) |
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1954.08.13 |
Clifford Brown (tp), Stu Williamson (vtb, tp), Zoot Sims (ts), Bob Gordon (bars), Russ Freeman (p), Carson Smith (b), Shelly Manne (d) |
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1954.11.09 |
Art Farmer (tp, fis), Wynton Kelley (p), Addison Farmer (b), Herbert Lovelle (d) |
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1956.08.06 |
Buddy Collette (fl, cl), Junie Cobb (ob), George W. Smith, Justin Gordon (cl), Howard Terry (cl, fg), André Previn (p), Barney Kessel (g), Buddy Clark (b), Shelly Manne (d) |
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1957.03.27 |
Al Cohn, Zoot Sims (ts, cl), Mose Allison (p), Teddy Kotick (b), Nick Stabulas (d) |
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John Frigo |
1957.??.?? |
John Frigo (vn), Cy Touff (tp), Vic Val (ts), Dick Marx (p), Ray Brown (b), Phil Faieta (d) |
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1959.04.22 |
Paul Desmond (as), Dave Brubeck (p), Gene Wright (b), Joe Morello (d) |
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1960.01.28 |
Tommy Flanagan (p), Wes Montgomery (g), Percy Heath (b), Albert Heath (d) |
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1960.05.09 |
Frank Wess (ts, fl), Tommy Flanagan (p), Eddie Jones (b), Bobby Donaldson (d) |
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1960.11.25 |
Art Pepper (as), Dolo Coker (p), Jimmy Bond (b), Frank Butler (d) |
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1962.03.28 |
Blue Mitchell (tp), Clark Terry (fis), Jerome Richardson (as), Jimmy Heath (ts), Wynton Kelly (p), Sam Jones (b), Albert Heath (d) |
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Ben Webster & Kenny Drew Trio |
1965.01.31 |
Ben Webster (ts), Kenny Drew (p), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b), Alex Riel (d) |
Vocal
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PERFORMERS |
DATE OF THE RECORDING |
MUSICIANS WHO TOOK PART IN THE RECORDING
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1937.06.14 |
Claude Thornhill (p, dir), Frankie Newton (tp), Buster Bailey (cl), Pata Brown (as), Babe Russin (ts), John Kirby (b), O´Neil Spencer (d), Maxine Sullivan (voc) |
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1947.??.?? |
Mel Tormé (voc), Dave Barbour (g), Buddy Cole (p), unidentified (arp, b) |
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1954.08.21 |
Chris Connor (voc), Ronnie Odrich (fl, cl), Don Burns (aco), Joe Cinderella (g), Vinnie Burke (b), Art Mardigan (d) |
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1955.??.?? |
Julie London (voc), Barney Kessel (g), Ray Leatherwood (b) |
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1955.05.16 |
Betty Carter (voc), Ray Bryant (p), Wendell Marshall (b), Jo Jones (d) |
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1955.12.29 |
Toni Harper (voc), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b) |
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1960.02.13 |
Ella Fitzgerald (voc), Paul Smith (p), Jim Hall (g), Wilfred Middlebrooks (b), Gus Johnson (d) |
On cinemas
The song 'Gone with the Wind' is included in the soundtrack of the following movies:
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ORIGINAL TITLE |
TITLE IN SPAIN |
YEAR OF PRODUCTION |
PERFORMERS OF THE SONG IN THE FILM |
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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore |
Alicia ya no vive aquí |
1974 |
Ellen Burstyn |
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Anything Else |
Todo lo demás |
2003 |
Wes Montgomery Quartet |
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The Notorious Bettie Page |
Bettie Page: la chica de las revistas |
2005 |
Julie London |