"Blues in the Night" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues in the Night. The song is sung in the film by William Gillespie
In 1942 "Blues in the Night" was one of nine songs nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[4] Observers expected that either "Blues in the Night" or "Chattanooga Choo Choo" would win, so that when "The Last Time I Saw Paris" actually won, neither its composer, Jerome Kern, nor lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein II, was present at the ceremony. Kern was so upset at winning with a song that had not been specifically written for a motion picture and that had been published and recorded before the film came out that he petitioned the Motion Picture Academy to change the rules. Since then, a nominated song has to have been written specifically for the motion picture in which it is performed.
Recorded versions that charted in the United States were by Woody Herman,[1][7] Dinah Shore,[1][2][7] Jimmie Lunceford,[1][7] Cab Calloway,[1] Artie Shaw, and Rosemary Clooney. Recorded versions in the United Kingdom were by Shirley Bassey and Helen Shapiro.

The Woody Herman recording was released by Decca Records as catalog number 4030.[1][8] The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 2, 1942 and lasted 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.[7][9]

The Dinah Shore recording[2] was released by RCA Bluebird Records as catalog number 11436.[1][10] The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on February 13, 1942 and lasted 7 weeks on the chart, peaking at #4.[7][9]

The Jimmie Lunceford recording was released by Decca Records as catalog number 4125.[1][8] The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 30, 1942 and lasted 5 weeks on the chart, peaking at #4.[7][9]

The Cab Calloway recording was released by OKeh Records as catalog number 6422.[1][11] The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on March 6, 1942 and lasted 1 week on the chart, at #8.[9]

The Artie Shaw recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 27609.[12] The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on November 21, 1941 and lasted 1 week on the chart, at #10.[9]

The Rosemary Clooney recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39813.[13] The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on September 26, 1952 and lasted 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at #29
In addition, the song was recorded at least three times by Jo Stafford. Her previously unreleased 1942 version with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra[14] was included in the 1966 Reader's Digest box set The Glenn Miller Years.[15] On October 15, 1943, she recorded it with Johnny Mercer, the Pied Pipers, and Paul Weston's Orchestra, in a version released as a single (catalog number 10001[16]) and on an album (Songs by Johnny Mercer, catalog number CD1) by Capitol Records. On February 20, 1959, she recorded it with The Starlighters in a version released on an album (Ballad of the Blues, catalog number CL-1332) by Columbia Records.

Another version was by Billy Eckstine in his album Once More with Feeling (1960)

Dick Monda released a version of the song as a single in 1967.[17]

More recently, the rock group Chicago included the song on their "Night and Day" album in 1995. The arrangement by vocalist Bill Champlin features a guitar solo by Aerosmith's Joe Perry.

Ray Charles for his album Ain't It So (1979)

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Larry Adler and the John Kirby Orchestra
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Charlie Barnet
Shirley Bassey
Tex Beneke
Tony Bennett
Sam Butera
Cab Calloway
Eva Cassidy
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Rosemary Clooney with Percy Faith's orchestra
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Doris Day
Jula de Palma
Ella Fitzgerald
Judy Garland and the David Rose Orchestra
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Bob Grant
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Quincy Jones (the George Clooney Brad Pitt remake)
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Nellie Lutcher
Katie Melua
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Helen Shapiro
Artie Shaw
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Jo Stafford (1959)
Mel Torme Torme
Alec Templeton
Cal Tjader (arr. Clare Fischer)
Joe Turner with the Freddie Slack Trio
Joe Turner with Howard Biggs' Orchestra
Fred Waring's Singers
Ann Hampton Callaway
Lynda Carter on her 2009 album At Last.
Sylvia Brooks on her album Restless, 2012
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