You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To explained

You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
Published:	by Chappell & Co., Inc., New York^[1]
Artist:	Dinah Shore
Type:	single
B-Side:	Manhattan Serenade
Recorded:	^[2]
Venue:	Something to Shout About 1943
Genre:	Popular music, Musical film, Pop standard
Label:	Victor 20-1519

"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. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1943 but lost^[3] to "You'll Never Know".

Other recordings

• Dinah Shore had a hit with the song at the time of its introduction.^[4]
• Helen Merrill with Clifford Brown – Helen Merrill (1954)
• Cannonball Adderley – Compact Jazz - Capitol - (1955)
• Art Pepper – Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957)
• Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster – Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
• Frank Sinatra – A Swingin' Affair! (1957)
• Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney recorded the song for their radio show in 1958^[5] and it was released on the album Bing & Rosie – The Crosby-Clooney Radio Sessions (2010).^[6]
• Wes Montgomery – One Night in Indy -Resonance- Recorded live in 1959 (released 2016)
• Nina Simone – Nina Simone at Newport (1960)
• Jo Stafford with Ben Webster – Jo + Jazz (1960)
• Al Cohn and Zoot Sims – You 'n' Me (1960)
• Julie London – Julie...At Home (1960)^[7]
• The Coasters – One by One (1960)^[8]
• Lee Konitz – Motion (1961)
• Jim Hall with Chet Baker and Paul Desmond – Concierto – (1975)
• Joey DeFrancesco – Singin' and Swingin' (1999)
• Dick Hyman and Randy Sandke – Now & Again (2004)
• Tina May, accompanied by pianist Nikki Iles – A Wing and a Prayer (2006)^[9]
• Jacky Terrasson – Push (2010)
• Xiu Xiu – Nina (2013)
• Harry Connick Jr. (2019)
• Marisa Anderson, Tara Jane O'Neil (2020)
• Bernie Dresel – The Pugilist (2021)

Notes and References

1. Book: Library of Congress. Copyright Office. . Catalog of Copyright Entries 1942 2 Music New Series Vol 37 Pt 3 . 1942 . U.S. Govt. Print. Off. . United States Copyright Office . English.
2. Web site: RCA Victor 78rpm numerical listing discography: 20-1500 - 20-2000 . 2022-04-22 . www.78discography.com.
3. Book: Gioia . Ted . The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire . 2012 . Oxford University Press . New York City . 978-0-19-993739-4 . 471–473.
4. Web site: Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #9. 1972.
5. Web site: A Bing Crosby Discography. BING magazine. International Club Crosby. December 10, 2017.
6. Web site: allmusic.com. allmusic.com. December 10, 2017.
7. Web site: www.discogs.com. www.discogs.com. 1960 . December 15, 2020.
8. http://www.allmusic.com/album/one-by-one-r4191 The Coasters, One By One
9. https://www.discogs.com/release/7553659-Tina-May-A-Wing-And-A-Prayer "Tina May – A Wing And A Prayer"