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. Dinah Shore had a major hit with the song at the time of its introduction. Diane Keaton performed the song in Woody Allen's movie Radio Days.

Notable recordings

• Six Hits and a Miss (1943)^[1]
• Noël Coward - single (1945)
• Helen Merrill - Helen Merrill (with Clifford Brown) (1954)
• Rita Reys - The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956)
• Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
• Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957)
• Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair! (1957)
• Chet Baker - Chet (1958/59)
• The Coasters - One By One (1960)^[2]
• Nina Simone - Nina Simone at Newport (1960)
• Jo Stafford - Jo + Jazz (1960)
• Lee Konitz - Motion (1961)
• Nancy Wilson - Hollywood – My Way (1963)
• Ella Fitzgerald - Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (1964) with Tommy Flanagan on piano and Roy Eldridge on trumpet
• Julie London - By Myself (1965)
• Cilla Black - Cilla (1965)
• Jim Hall - Concierto (1975)
• Mel Tormé - An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982)
• Miki Matsubara - Blue Eyes (1984)
• Billy Eckstine/Helen Merrill - Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter (1986)
• Susannah McCorkle - Easy to Love—The Songs of Cole Porter (1996)
• Andy Bey - Ballads, Blues & Bey (1996)
• John Barrowman - John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter (2004)
• Coco d'Or - Coco d'Or (2004)
• Beat Kaestli - Happy, Sad and Satisfied (2005)
• Tony DeSare - Last First Kiss (2007)
• Chris Gillespie - Portraits Of Porter (2013)
• Eltjo Haselhoff - Delovely Guitar (2007)
• Mika Nakashima - Eien no Uta (2007)
• Sarah Vaughan

References