Bea Wain with Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - I Get Along Without You Very Well (1939)

Here we have one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful songs ever written. The music was written by Hoagy Carmichael, while he based the lyrics on a poem written by Jane Brown Thompson. The song is made even more poignant by the fact that Jane passed away a night before the song was introduced on radio. She had given Hoagy the poem while she was a student at Indiana University. He didn't know her name and it took much searching before she was identified. There are quite a few other versions of this song, but for me, this one, by Bea, is the best. The biggest hit versions in 1939 were by Red Norvo and His Orchestra (reaching #3) and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra (#9). A later version by Karen Chandler charted at #19 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1967.

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