Alone Together (1932 song)

"Alone Together" is a song composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Flying Colors in 1932 by Jean Sargent.

The song soon became a hit, with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra's 1932 recording being the first to reach the charts. It is the most popular of Schwartz and Dietz's collaborations and has become a jazz standard. The first jazz artist to record the song was Artie Shaw in 1939.

Selective list of recorded versions

• Artie Shaw – (1939 & 1940)
• Dizzy Gillespie – (1950)
• Art Blakey – At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1955)
• Miles Davis – Blue Moods (1955)
• Pepper Adams - Critic's Choice (1957)
• Steve Lacy – Soprano Sax (1957)
• Julie London – Make Love to Me (1957)
• Sonny Rollins – Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders (1958)
• Dorothy Ashby – In a Minor Groove (1958)
• Chet Baker – Chet (1959)
• Kenny Dorham Quartet – Prestige Records (1959)
• Peggy Lee – Things Are Swingin' (1959)
• Tony Bennett – Alone Together (1960)
• Judy Garland – That's Entertainment! (1960) & Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961)
• Mel Tormé – My Kind of Music (1961)
• Ray Charles and Betty Carter – Ray Charles and Betty Carter (1961)
• Grant Green – Green Street (1961)
• Ella Fitzgerald and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra – Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1962)
• Eric Dolphy – Conversations (1963)
• Stanley Turrentine – Easy Walker (1966)
• Carmen McRae –Hotel (movie) (1967)
• Ray Brown – Bass Hit! (1969)
• Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie – Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (1974)
• Horace Parlan – Musically Yours (1979)
• Dinah Washington - Dinah Jams (1954, remastered 1990)
• Sun Ra - Mayan Temples (1990)
• Ron Carter and Jim Hall – Alone Together (1991)
• Joe Pass and John Pisano – Duets (1991)
• Robert Glasper Trio – Mood (2004)
• McCoy Tyner – Illuminations (2004)
• Carly Simon – Moonlight Serenade (2005)
• Billy Childs - The Child Within (2005)
• Erin Bode – Over and Over (2006)
• Stefano Bollani - "I Visionari" (2006)
• Rufus Wainwright – Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007)
• Michael Weiss – Power Station (2007)

Available in https://open.spotify.com/user/12176803321/playlist/4iN8KND8g0ykxyKf2Q7W6T

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards