After You've Gone | |
Cover: | After Youve Gone cover.jpg |
Caption: | Sheet music cover (1918) |
Published: | 1918 |
Composer: | Turner Layton |
Lyricist: | Henry Creamer |
"After You've Gone" is a 1918 popular song composed by Turner Layton with lyrics by Henry Creamer.[1]
It was recorded by Marion Harris on July 22, 1918, and released by Victor Records.[2]
The song became so popular that the sheet music was later decorated with tiny photographs of the 45 men who made the song famous, including Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallée, B.A. Rolfe, Guy Lombardo, and Louis Armstrong.[3]
The chorus adheres to a standard ABAC pattern but is only 20 measures long. There are four 4-bar phrases, followed by a 4-measure tag. The song is harmonically active, with chord changes in almost every measure. The opening four notes to the chorus are identical to the opening notes of "Peg o' My Heart" (1912) — at the time songwriters often borrowed the first few notes of a hit melody.[4]
Year | Performer | Work | Source | |
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1918 | ||||
1918 | [5] | |||
Billy Murray and Gladys Rice | ||||
1927 | ||||
1927 | ||||
1927 | ||||
1929 | ||||
1929 | Miff Mole And His Little Molers | OKeh 41445 (78); recorded 1929/09/24 | ||
1929, 1946 | [6] [7] | |||
1930 | ||||
1930 | Fats Waller with Benny Payne | [8] | ||
1931 | ||||
1933 | ||||
1935 | Make Mine Music | |||
1935 | ||||
1936, 1949 | ||||
1937 | ||||
1937 | ||||
1937 | ||||
1941 | Gene Krupa with Roy Eldridge | |||
1943 | Sidney Bechet | |||
1944 | ||||
1944 | Jazz at the Philharmonic | |||
1949 | [9] | |||
1953 | ||||
1953 | [10] | |||
1954 | ||||
1957 | Many Sides of Toshiko | |||
1957 | Eydie Swings the Blues | |||
1957 | The Phenomenal Dukes of Dixieland - You Have To Hear It To Believe It! Vol. 2 | [11] | ||
1958 | Dinah Sings Bessie Smith | |||
1959 | And I Thought About You | [12] | ||
1959 | Joni Sings Sweet | |||
1959 | The Hard Swing | |||
1960 | Alone Together | |||
1961 | Judy at Carnegie Hall | |||
1961 | Helen | |||
1961 | Return of the Wildest | |||
1962 | There Goes That Song Again | |||
1962 | Rhythm Is My Business | |||
1963 | ||||
1963 | ||||
1964 | In the Name of Love | [13] | ||
1965 | Bobby Darin Sings The Shadow of Your Smile | |||
1973 | Judith Durham and The Hottest Band in Town | |||
1974 | ||||
1975 | My Ship | |||
1978 | LingaLongaMax | |||
1979 | Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Erzsebet Foldi | All That Jazz | ||
1984 | L.A. Is My Lady | |||
1989 | ||||
1991 | Nothing Without You | |||
1994 | Read My Licks | [14] | ||
1995 | Gumbo Nouveau | |||
1996 | ||||
1998 | ||||
1999 | Joscho Stephan | Swinging Strings | ||
2003 | 23 Standards | |||
2004 | I'll Be Seeing You | |||
2004 | The Aviator | |||
2004 | ||||
2006 | ||||
2007 | Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall | |||
2007 | ||||
2010 | Cécile | |||
2011 | Let Them Talk | [15] | ||
2013 | BioShock Infinite | |||
2014 | That Awkward Moment | [16] | ||
2016 | Excuse Me | |||
2020 | Curtis Stigers | Gentleman | ||
2020 | Victoria Pedretti | Amazing Stories | ||
2020 | Jane Bordeaux | Songs of Others | ||
2021 | Patrick Bartley & Emmet Cohen |