Them There Eyes
"Them There Eyes" is a jazz song written by Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber and William Tracey. It was published in 1930. One of the early recorded versions was done by Louis Armstrong in 1931.[1] It was made famous by Billie Holiday, who recorded her version in 1939 on Vocalion Records.
Notable performances
- Louis Armstrong
- Hal Kemp (1930)
- Duke Ellington (1931)
- Django Reinhardt
- Lester Young as "The Kansas City Six," with Freddie Green vcl (1938)
- Billie Holiday (1939), (1949)
- Kay Starr (1947)
- Doris Drew (1951)
- Anita O'Day (1952, 2006)
- Bing Crosby (1953)
- Ella Fitzgerald (1957) and her 1963 Verve release Ella and Basie!
- Benny Goodman (1957)
- Zoot Sims (1956)
- Frank Sinatra (1956)
- Peggy Lee (1961)
- Carmen McRae (1961)
- Kenny Ball (1967)
- Diana Ross (1972 and 1993)
- Barbara Cook (1980)
- Chaka Khan (1982)
- Nancy Wilson (1983)
- Joe Williams (1994)
- Oscar Peterson (1995)
- Sarah Vaughan
- Etta Jones (2001)
- Aretha Franklin (2004)
- Garry Moore (c. 1959)
- Nnenna Freelon (2008)
- Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa (2013)
- Patty Clark (1959)
- Others[2]