Alone Together (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)
 * 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)
 * Judy Garland – That's Entertainment! (1960) & Judy at Carnegie Hall (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)
 * 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)
 * Ron Carter and Jim Hall – Alone Together (1991)
 * Joe Pass and John Pisano – Duets (1991)
 * McCoy Tyner – Illuminations (2004)
 * Carly Simon – Moonlight Serenade (2005)
 * Erin Bode – Over and Over (2006)
 * Rufus Wainwright – Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007)