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'{{About|the standard song|the Patti Page album|You Go to My Head (album)}} "'''You Go to My Head'''" is a 1938 [[popular song]] composed by [[J. Fred Coots]] with lyrics by [[Haven Gillespie]].<ref>[http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/yougotomyhead.htm "You Go To My Head" at jazzstandards.com] – retrieved on 8 June 2009</ref> Numerous versions of the song have been recorded, and it has since become a pop & [[jazz standard]]. [[Larry Clinton]] recorded the song with his orchestra on February 24, 1938, and the song became a hit, eventually reaching #3 on the pop charts.<ref name=Gioia>[[Ted Gioia]]: The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, Oxford University Press 2012, p. 469</ref> It inspired an [[answer song]], "You Went To My Head" (by Joseph Meyer, Bob Emmerich, and Buddy Bernier) that was recorded by [[Fats Waller]] on March 11, 1938, and again by [[Duke Ellington]] (featuring a vocal by [[Ivie Anderson]]) on April 17, 1938. The song was later recorded in 1938 by [[Teddy Wilson]] with a vocal by [[Nan Wynn]], by [[Billie Holiday]].,<ref>[http://www.wicn.org/song-week/you-go-to-my-head-1938 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625160555/http://www.wicn.org/song-week/you-go-to-my-head-1938 |date=June 25, 2009 }}</ref> and by [[Casa Loma Orchestra|Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra]]. The Wilson, Holiday, and Gray versions all placed in the top-20 of the music charts in 1938.<ref name="Gioia"/> The song is played in [[Laura (1944 film)|''Laura'' (1944 film)]] and [[The Big Sleep (1946 film)|''The Big Sleep'' (1946 film)]]. On 23 April 1961, [[Judy Garland]] performed the song at the ''[[Judy at Carnegie Hall]]'' concert. ==Recordings== *[[Teddy Wilson]] (1938) *[[Billie Holiday]] (1938) *[[Nan Wynn]] (1938) *[[Ginny Simms]] (1938) *[[Judy Garland]] *[[Leslie Hutchinson|Hutch]] (1939) *[[Marlene Dietrich]] (1939) *[[Charlie Spivak]] *[[Charlie Barnet]] *[[Bing Crosby]] *[[Peggy Lee]] *[[Bea Wain]] *[[Sarah Vaughan]] (1946) *[[Frank Sinatra]] - with [[Axel Stordahl]] (1946), ''[[Nice 'n' Easy]]'' (1960) *[[Dorothy Kirsten]] (1949) *[[Doris Day]] (1949) *[[Tony Bennett]] *[[Petula Clark]] (1950) *[[Helen Forrest]] *[[Bud Powell]] (1951) *[[Billie Holiday]] (1952) *[[Harry James]] (July 30, 1952 - Soft Lights, Sweet Trumpet) *[[Dave Brubeck]], both with [[Paul Desmond]] and with the rest of his [[Dave Brubeck Quartet|quartet]] (1953) <ref>http://www.discogs.com/Dave-Brubeck-Trioand-Quartet-Jazz-At-Storyville/release/3469524</ref> *[[Lena Horne]] *[[Teddi King]] * [[Dinah Washington]] - ''[[Dinah Jams]]'' (1954, remastered 1990) *[[Patti Page]] (1956) *[[Art Pepper]] Quartet (1956) *[[Oscar Peterson]] Trio - (1956) *[[Louis Armstrong]] (1957) *[[Dinah Shore]] *[[Dizzy Gillespie]] *[[Ella Fitzgerald]] - ''[[Hello, Love]]'' (1960) *[[Bill Evans]] - ''Interplay'' (1962) *[[Ennio Morricone]] - Album ''Musica sul velluto'' (RCA Italiana PML 10386 - 1964) *[[Lee Morgan]] - ''[[The Gigolo]]'' (1965) *[[Julie London]] (1967) *[[Shirley Bassey]] (1968) *[[Rosemary Clooney]] *[[Stéphane Grappelli]] (1973) *[[Anthony Braxton]] (1975) *[[Bryan Ferry]] - ''[[Let's Stick Together]]'' (1976) *[[Maxine Sullivan]] (1978) *[[Lio]] (1980) *[[Mathilde Santing]] (1982) <ref>*[[Colette Magny]]</ref> (1983) *[[Roseanna Vitro]] - ''[[Listen Here (Roseanna Vitro album)|Listen Here]]'' (1984) *[[Chet Baker]] - ''Diane'', with [[Paul Bley]] (1985) *[[Linda Ronstadt]] - ''[[For Sentimental Reasons (Linda Ronstadt album)|For Sentimental Reasons]]'' (1986) *[[Betty Carter]] - ''[[It's Not About the Melody]]'' (1992) *[[Royal Crown Revue]] - ''[[Greetings From Hollywood]]'' *[[Art Tatum]] *[[Michael Feinstein]] *[[Nick Brignola]] - ''[[Like Old Times]]'' (1994) *[[Bobby Caldwell]] (1996) *[[Mary Stallings]] - ''Manhattan Moods'' (1997) *[[Stacey Kent]] ''Close Your Eyes'' (1997) *[[Susannah McCorkle]] - ''[[From Bessie to Brazil]]'' (1993), ''[[Ballad Essentials]]'' (2002) *[[Rod Stewart]] (2005) *[[Michael Bolton]] (2006) *[[Smokey Robinson]] - ''[[Timeless Love]] '' (2006) *[[Diana Krall]] - ''[[The Very Best of Diana Krall]]'' (2007) *[[Rufus Wainwright]] - ''[[Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall]]'' (2007) *[[Rachael Price]] - ''The Good Hours'' (2008) *[[Daniel Matto]] - ''I'm Old Fashioned'' (2010) *[[Sylvia Brooks]] - ''Restless'' (2012) *[[Mina (singer)|Mina]] - ''[[Mina (1964 album)|Mina]]'' (1964) *Lisa Wahlandt - ''Mind Games - Kind of Swing'' (2000) *[[Mart Sander]] - ''Swing and Sweet'' (2012) *Audrey Bernstein - ''Audrey Bernstein Loves Blue'' (2013) *Felipe Villar Trío - ''Home'' (2014) *Alex De Grassi - "Bolivian Blues Bar" (1999) *[[Cassandra Wilson]] - ''Coming Forth by Day'' (2015) *[[Wayne Bergeron]] - ''Plays Well With Others'' (2007) *[[Susie Arioli]] - ''Night Lights'' (2008) ==See also== *[[List of 1930s jazz standards]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{MetroLyrics song|billie-holiday|you-go-to-my-head}}<!-- Licensed lyrics provider --> {{Billie Holiday}} [[Category:1938 songs]] [[Category:1930s jazz standards]] [[Category:Frank Sinatra songs]] [[Category:Pop standards]] [[Category:Judy Garland songs]] [[Category:Billie Holiday songs]] [[Category:Songs with music by John Frederick Coots]] [[Category:Songs with lyrics by Haven Gillespie]] [[Category:Jazz compositions in E-flat major]]'