It Never Entered My Mind (song)

"It Never Entered My Mind" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher (1940), where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.

Notable recordings

 * Chet Baker - Chet (1959)
 * Chris Botti - Italia (2007)
 * June Christy - The Intimate Miss Christy (1963)
 * Rosemary Clooney - Love (1963)
 * Chris Connor - Double Exposure with Maynard Ferguson (1961), Warm Cool: The Atlantic Years (2000)
 * Barbara Cook - Barbara Cook Sings "From the Heart"  (1959)
 * Larry Coryell - Comin' Home (1984)
 * Miles Davis - Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1956)
 * Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook (1956)
 * Stan Getz - Cool Velvet: Stan Getz and Strings (1960)
 * Johnny Hartman - The Voice That Is!! (1964)
 * Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
 * Joni James - 100 Strings and Joni (1959)
 * Keith Jarrett Trio - Standards (1983)
 * Jack Jones - Where Love Has Gone (1964)
 * Julie London - Julie Is Her Name (1955)
 * Susannah McCorkle - Ballad Essentials (2002)
 * Jackie McLean with the Great Jazz Trio - New Wine in Old Bottles (1978)
 * Anita O'Day - ''Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960)
 * Oscar Peterson - Another Day (Oscar Peterson album) (1972)
 * Bud Powell - Bud Powell's Moods (1956)
 * Leontyne Price - Right as the Rain (1967)
 * Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle - Lush Life (1984)
 * Jeri Southern - Southern Hospitality (1958)
 * Frank Sinatra - Frankly Sentimental (1949) Originally recorded November 5, 1947, In the Wee Small Hours (1955), She Shot Me Down (1981)
 * Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows (1958)

The *Miles Davis recording was used in the movies *The Runaway Bride (1999) and the Lenny Bruce biopic *Lenny (1974).