Everything about Misty Song totally explained
"
Misty" is a
jazz standard written in
1954 by the pianist
Erroll Garner. Originally composed as an instrumental following the traditional 32-bar format, the tune later had lyrics by
Johnny Burke and became the
signature song of
Johnny Mathis. It has been covered numerous times, perhaps most notably by
Ella Fitzgerald,
Sarah Vaughan (
1959), and also by
Ray Stevens (
1975) as a
country song. It was also used as a theme song for
NBC's
Today Show for most of the 1960s. "Misty" was the first song played on the air by disc jockey Domenic A. Conti on his debut into radio in
1958.
Erroll Garner's version of the song was inducted into the
Grammy Hall of Fame in
1991, and
Johnny Mathis version of the song was inducted in
2002.
Other singers, bands, and titles who have covered this song are as follows:
Ella Fitzgerald |
Frank Sinatra |
Aretha Franklin |
Dave Chapelle|
Donny Hathaway |
Chris Conner |
Hadda Brooks |
Jim Bajor | VIP Service |
Eric Miller (musician) and his orchestra |
Earl Grant |
Stephane Grapelli & Diverse |
Brian Auger |
Dorothy Moore | Ladies only Cafe Springs |
Freddie Hubbard |
Benny Green |
Janis Siegel |
McCoy Tyner |
Duke Ellington |
Ray Stevens |
Lloyd Price |
Frank Vignola |
Etta James (Two covers of Misty) |
Bill Tapia |
Billy Eckstine |
Julie London |
Claude Bolling |
Joe Pass |
Dave Koz |
Buddy Merrill |
Nana Gualdi & das Orchester Rolf Kühn | The
Benny Carter Group |
Pharoah Sanders |
Erroll Garner |
Dennis Marcelina &
Mark Stefani |
Jackie Gleason |
Brandon Fields & The Gina Kronstadt Strings
Los Angeles (orchestra) |
Byard Lancaster |
Ben Webster |
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson |
Chris Connor |
Christy Baron |
Richard "Groove" Holmes |
Dexter Gordon |
Dee Dee Bridgewater |
Johnny Mathis |
Mark Maxwell |
Dianna Reeves |
Kenny Rogers |
Diahann Carroll |
Les Brown & His Band of Renown |
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra,
Doc Severinsen |
Sally Fletcher |
Sarah Vaughan |
Dakota Staton |
Hank Crawford |
J.J Johnson |
Oscar Peterson |
Bob Brookmeyer | Atlantic Jazz |
Ahmad Jamal |
Itzhak Perlman &
Oscar Peterson|
Roy Buchanan with
Mundell Lowe |
Björk & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar |
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet |
Wes Montgomery |
Roland Dyens |
Didier Lockwood |
Tom Selleck (in the episode of
Magnum P.I. "The man of Marseilles")
The song plays a key role in the plot of the movie
Play Misty for Me (1971).
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