Little Girl Blue (song)

"Little Girl Blue" is a popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, published in 1935. The song was introduced by Gloria Grafton in the Broadway musical Jumbo.

Film appearances

 * 1950 The Jackpot
 * 1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo - sung by Doris Day
 * 1990 The Handmaid's Tale
 * 2022 Saint Omer - sung by Nina Simone

Recordings
Many popular and jazz artists have recorded the tune, including:
 * The Afghan Whigs
 * Chet Baker
 * Polly Bergen - Little Girl Blue (1955)
 * Donald Byrd - Byrd in Flight, as "Little Boy Blue": (Blue Note 1960)
 * Ann Hampton Callaway - To Ella with Love (1996)
 * Sam Cooke - My Kind of Blues (1961)
 * Doris Day - Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
 * Ethel Ennis - Eyes for You (1964)
 * Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956)
 * Judy Garland - Alone (1957)
 * Red Garland - A Garland of Red (Prestige 1956)
 * The Four Freshmen - Love Lost (1959)
 * Johnny Hartman - And I Thought About You (1959)
 * The Hi-Lo's
 * Milt Jackson - Reverence and Compassion (1993)
 * Harry James
 * Joni James - Little Girl Blue (1956)
 * Keith Jarrett - Standards in Norway
 * Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969, although the lyrics on this version were rearranged)
 * Morgana King
 * Diana Krall - From This Moment On (2006)
 * Stacey Kent - Dreamsville (2001)
 * Brenda Lee - Reflections in Blue (1964)
 * Grant Green - Oleo with Sonny Clark
 * Eddie Harris - Exodus to Jazz
 * John Lewis - The John Lewis Piano (1957)
 * Hank Mobley - Mobley's Message (Prestige 1956)
 * Gerry Mulligan with Jon Eardley - California Concerts (1954)
 * Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960)
 * Oscar Peterson - My Favorite Instrument (solo piano)
 * The Postal Service (a remix of the Nina Simone version)
 * Sue Raney - Sue Raney, Volume II (2004)
 * Linda Ronstadt - For Sentimental Reasons (1986)
 * Diana Ross - Touch Me in the Morning (1973)
 * Mathilde Santing
 * The Carpenters - Lovelines (1989)
 * Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary Clooney Sings Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein (1990)
 * Carly Simon - My Romance (1990)
 * Nina Simone (whose 1958 debut album Little Girl Blue was named after the song)
 * Frank Sinatra - Songs for Young Lovers (1954)
 * Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)
 * Margaret Whiting - this charted briefly in 1947
 * Nancy Wilson - Hello Young Lovers (1962)
 * Pinky Winters - Pinky (1954)
 * Louis Armstrong - Pops Is Tops-The Verve Studio Albums (2018)
 * Laura Mvula - Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave (2013)