Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (1942, 2 weeks, rising to #20). Cab Calloway and His Orchestra with Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet (1942, one week at #8). Dinah Shore (1942, 7 weeks, peaking at #4). Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra (1942, Willie Smith, vocal, 5 weeks, peaking at #4). Woody Herman and His Orchestra (1942, 18 weeks, peaking at #1). Artie Shaw and His Orchestra (1941, one week at #10). “Blues in the Night” charted on Billboard several times: (The Broadway show of the same name, which opened in June, 1982, is an entirely different production with music by a variety of composers and lyricists.) Lloyd Nolan plays the gangster who hires them to play his club, and Betty Field is his hard-hearted ex-girlfriend. Playing band members are Priscilla Lane and Jack Carson (husband and wife with problems), Richard Whorf, and a young Elia Kazan. 
The film is little known and seldom shown, although most reviewers praise this musical drama about a jazz band that gets involved with gangsters.
LYRICS TO BLUES IN THE NIGHT FREE PDF MOVIE
The song, nominated for an Academy Award, was featured in the movie as background music, as an instrumental played by the on-camera band, and sung by William Gillespie. “Blues in the Night” was written by composer Harold Arlen and lyricist Johnny Mercer for a 1941 movie originally titled Hot Nocturne which became Blues in the Night because of the song’s appeal. “Is there a more evocative American song? Musically, that theme.is not only catchy it gets locked into the brain by the blues convention of repetition.”
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