When Your Lover Has Gone
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When Your Lover Has Gone is a 1931 composition by Einar Aaron Swan which, after being featured in the James Cagney film Blonde Crazy that same year, has become a jazz standard.
[edit] Covers
It has been covered by many of the great names in the jazz and popular music world, including:
- Gene Austin (1931)
- Louis Armstrong (1931)
- Ethel Waters (1931)
- Benny Goodman (1931)
- Maxine Sullivan (1942)
- Frank Sinatra - Side B of single "I Should Care"
- Harry James (1944)
- Billie Holiday (1945)
- Nat King Cole (1951)
- Doris Day - included on the album You're My Thrill (1949)
- Carmen McRae (1955)
- Julie London (1956)
- Julie Wilson (1957)
- Ray Charles (1959)
- Andy Williams (1959)
- Ella Fitzgerald - included on the albumsElla Swings Brightly with Nelson (1962) and All That Jazz (1989)
- Vic Damone - 1963
- Brenda Lee - 1964
- Linda Ronstadt (1984)
- Carly Simon - included on the album My Romance (1990)
Also recorded by the following (dates unknown):
