It Never Entered My Mind

"It Never Entered My Mind" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher,^[1] where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.

• Frank Sinatra – Frankly Sentimental (1949) Originally recorded November 5, 1947,^[2] In the Wee Small Hours (1955), She Shot Me Down (1981)
• Patty Andrews (with Gordon Jenkins and orchestra) (1951)
• Julie London – Julie Is Her Name (1955)
• Miles Davis – Miles Davis, Volume 3 (Blue Note 1954) & Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige 1956)
• Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956)
• Bud Powell – Bud Powell's Moods (1956)
• Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster – Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
• Stan Getz – Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957)
• Jeri Southern – Southern Hospitality (1958)
• Stan Getz – Jazz Giants '58
• Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)
• Chet Baker – Chet (1959)
• Barbara Cook – Barbara Cook Sings "From the Heart" (1959)
• Joni James – 100 Strings and Joni (1959)
• Stan Getz – Cool Velvet: Stan Getz and Strings (1960)
• Anita O'Day – Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960)^[3]
• Chris Connor – Double Exposure with Maynard Ferguson (1961), Warm Cool: The Atlantic Years (2000)
• June Christy – The Intimate Miss Christy (1963)
• Rosemary Clooney – Love (1963)
• Johnny Hartman – The Voice That Is!! (1964)
• Jack Jones – Where Love Has Gone (1964)
• Eddie Fisher - Games That Lovers Play (1966)
• Oscar Peterson – Another Day (1972)
• Jackie McLean with the Great Jazz Trio – New Wine in Old Bottles (1978)
• Keith Jarrett Trio – Standards (1983)
• Chris Botti – Italia (2007)^[4]

• The Miles Davis recording was used in the following movies: Runaway Bride (1999) and the Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny (1974).