After You've Gone (song)

"After You've Gone" is a 1918 popular song composed by Turner Layton with lyrics by Henry Creamer.^[1]

"After You've Gone"
Sheet music cover (1918)
Song
Published	1918
Composer(s)	Turner Layton
Lyricist(s)	Henry Creamer
Audio sample
Recording of After You've Gone, performed by Marion Harris (1918) file help
Instrumental performance by musicians from the U.S. Coast Guard Band file help

History

It was recorded by Marion Harris on July 22, 1918, and released by Victor Records.^[2]

The song became so popular that the sheet music was later decorated with tiny photographs of the 45 men who made the song famous, including Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallée, B.A. Rolfe, Guy Lombardo, and Louis Armstrong.^[3]

Composition

The chorus adheres to a standard ABAC pattern but is only 20 measures long. There are four 4-bar phrases, followed by a 4-measure tag. The song is harmonically active, with chord changes in almost every measure. The opening four notes to the chorus are identical to the opening notes of "Peg o' My Heart" (1912) — at the time songwriters often borrowed the first few notes of a hit melody.^[4]

Notable recordings

Year	Performer	Work	Source
1918	Marion Harris		[1]
1918	Henry Burr and Albert Campbell		[5]
	Billy Murray and Gladys Rice		[5]
1927	Sophie Tucker		[5]
1927	Bessie Smith		[5][1]
1927	Ruth Etting
1929	Louis Armstrong		[1]
1929	Miff Mole And His Little Molers	OKeh 41445 (78); recorded 1929/09/24
1929, 1946	Bing Crosby with Paul Whiteman		[6][7]
1930	Red Nichols with Jack Teagarden
1930	Fats Waller with Benny Payne		[8]
1931	Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Jack Teagarden, Benny Goodman
1933	Duke Ellington		[1]
1934	Gene Austin, Candy Candido, Otto Heimel	Sadie McKee
1935	Benny Goodman	Make Mine Music	[5][1]
1935	Coleman Hawkins
1936, 1949	Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli
1937	Roy Eldridge		[1]
1937	Lionel Hampton		[5]
1937	Quintette du Hot Club de France		[5]
1941	Gene Krupa with Roy Eldridge		[1]
1942	Judy Garland	For Me and My Gal
1943	Sidney Bechet
1944	Art Tatum
1944	Charlie Parker	Jazz at the Philharmonic	[1]
1949	Al Jolson		[9]
1953	Turk Murphy
1953	Frankie Laine		[10]
1954	Cal Tjader
1957	Toshiko Akiyoshi	The Many Sides of Toshiko	[11]
1957	Eydie Gorme	Eydie Swings the Blues	[12]
1957	The Dukes of Dixieland	The Phenomenal Dukes of Dixieland - You Have To Hear It To Believe It! Vol. 2	[13]
1958	Dinah Washington	Dinah Sings Bessie Smith	[14]
1959	Johnny Hartman	And I Thought About You	[15]
1959	Joni James	Joni Sings Sweet	[16]
1959	Sonny Stitt	The Hard Swing	[1]
1960	Tony Bennett	Alone Together	[17]
1961	Judy Garland	Judy at Carnegie Hall	[18]
1961	Helen Shapiro	Helen	[19]
1961	Louis Prima	Return of the Wildest	[20]
1962	Brook Benton	There Goes That Song Again	[21]
1962	Ella Fitzgerald	Rhythm Is My Business	[22]
1963	Alice Babs
1963	Shirley Horn	Shirley Horn with Horns	[23]
1963	Rita Reys	Jazz Sir, That's Our Baby	[24]
1964	Peggy Lee	In the Name of Love	[25]
1965	Bobby Darin	Bobby Darin Sings The Shadow of Your Smile	[26]
1973	Judith Durham	Judith Durham and The Hottest Band in Town	[27]
1974	Nina Simone
1975	Anita O'Day	My Ship	[28]
1978	Max Bygraves	LingaLongaMax	[29]
1979	Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Erzsebet Foldi	All That Jazz
1984	Frank Sinatra	L.A. Is My Lady	[30]
1989	Charly Antolini & Dick Morrissey	Cookin'	[31]
1991	Mel Tormé & Cleo Laine	Nothing Without You	[32]
1994	Chet Atkins & Suzy Bogguss	Read My Licks	[33]
1995	Nicholas Payton	Gumbo Nouveau	[34]
1996	Phil Collins	live at Montreux Jazz Festival
1998	Wynton Marsalis	Standard Time, Vol. 5: The Midnight Blues	[35]
1999	Joscho Stephan	Swinging Strings	[36]
2003	Anthony Braxton	23 Standards	[37]
2004	Anne Murray	I'll Be Seeing You	[38]
2004	Loudon Wainwright III	The Aviator
2004	James Gelfand
2006	Bireli Lagrene
2007	Rufus Wainwright & Lorna Luft	Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall	[39]
2007	Jamie Cullum
2010	Cécile McLorin Salvant	Cécile & the Jean-François Bonnel Paris Quintet	[40]
2011	Hugh Laurie, Dr. John	Let Them Talk	[41]
2013	Jessy Carolina	BioShock Infinite
2014	Mackenzie Davis	That Awkward Moment	[42]
2016	Salvador Sobral	Excuse Me
2020	Curtis Stigers	Gentleman	[43]
2020	Victoria Pedretti	Amazing Stories
2020	Jane Bordeaux	Songs of Others
2020	The Oxcentrics		[44]
2021	Patrick Bartley & Emmet Cohen

See also

• List of pre-1920 jazz standards