In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening

Written: 1951

Music by: Hoagy Carmichael

Words by: Johnny Mercer

Written for: Here Comes the Groom
(movie, 1951)

On the Main Stage at Cafe Songbook

Margaret Whiting
with the John Pizzarelli Trio

performing

"In the Cool, Cool, Cool
of the Evening"

at a program at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
honoring Johnny Mercer, c. 1997

Margaret Whiting (vocal), John Pizzarelli (vocal and guitar), Ray Kennedy (piano), Martin Pizzarelli, (bass)

A recording of thise artists singing "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" can be found on the 1997 album
Too Marvelous for Words: Songs of Johnny Mercer

More Performances of "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
in the Cafe Songbook Record/Video Cabinet
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"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"

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The origin of the song's title may be Joan Crawford (playing the hedonistic Sadie Thompson) in the 1932 film Rain saying, "In the cool of the evening, I'll be there." The song was introduced in the 1951 movie Here Comes the Groom by Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman.

Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman introduce "In the Cool, Cool, Cool,
of the Evening," in the 1951 movie Here Comes the Groom.

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