Black Coffee (1948 song)
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"Black Coffee" is a song. The music was written by Sonny Burke, the lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. The song was published in 1948. Sarah Vaughan charted with this song in 1949 on Columbia. Peggy Lee first released her version in 1953. It was included in the soundtrack for the 1960 Columbia Pictures feature Let No Man Write My Epitaph, recorded on Verve by Ella Fitzgerald, also in 1960.
[edit] Cover versions
Other versions of "Black Coffee" were performed by:
- Ray Charles on his album The Great Ray Charles (1957)
- Elkie Brooks on her album Round Midnight
- Earl Grant on his albums Midnight Sun (1962) and In Motion (1968)
- Rosemary Clooney on her album Love (1963)
- Petula Clark on her album The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener (1968)
- The Pointer Sisters on the album That's a Plenty (1974)
- Janis Siegel on the album At home (1987)
- k.d. lang on the album Shadowland (1988)
- Sinéad O'Connor on the album Am I Not Your Girl? (1992)
- Martina Topley-Bird and Tricky on the album Nearly God (1996)
- Nana Mouskouri on her live album Nana Swings (2003)
- Marianne Faithfull for her album Easy Come, Easy Go (2008)
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