Little Girl Blue

Little Girl Blue

Composer

Lorenz Hart

Lyricist

Richard Rodgers

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Album

Songs for Young Lovers (1954)

Artist

Frank Sinatra

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1954

Recording

November 6, 1953

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"Little Girl Blue" is a song that Frank Sinatra recorded for his 1954 Capitol album, Songs for Young Lovers.

History

"Little Girl Blue" was initially written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1935 for their musical Jumbo In this original performance of the musical, Gloria Grafton was the artist who first recorded this song.

Releases

Studio recordings

• Songs for Young Lovers (1954)

Reissues

• Concepts (1992)
• Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Rodgers & Hart (1996)
• The Capitol Years (1998)
• Young at Heart (2008)
• Frank Sinatra 5CD (2009)

Lyrics

When you were very young, the world was younger than you
As merry as a carousel
The circus tent was strung with ever star in the sky
Above the ring you loved show well
Now the young world has grown old
Gone are the silver and gold

Sit there, and count your fingers
What can you do?
Old girl you're through
Just sit there and count your little fingers
Unhappy little girl blue

Sit there and count the raindrops
Falling on you
It's time you knew
All you can count on are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue

No use, oh girl, you might as well surrender
You're hopes are getting slender
Why won't somebody send a tender
Blue boy to cheer up little girl blue.

Other artists

Other artists that have recorded "Little Girl Blue."
The Afghan Whigs Louis Armstrong Chet Baker The Carpenters Sam Cooke Doris Day Ella Fitzgerald The Four Freshmen Judy Garland Grant Green Eddie Harris Johnny Hartman Coleman Hawkins Joni James Keith Jarrett Janis Joplin Diana Krall Stacey Kent Anita O'Day The Postal Service Oscar Peterson Linda Ronstadt Diana Ross Carly Simon Nina Simone Sarah Vaughan Margaret Whiting