When Your Lover Has Gone (song)

"When Your Lover Has Gone" is a 1931 composition by Einar Aaron Swan which, after being featured in the James Cagney film Blonde Crazy that same year, has become a jazz standard. The song was used in the 1991 film, The Rocketeer during the part where Neville Sinclair takes Jenny to The South Seas Club. This song is unusual in that, after a simple verse, it does not follow the usual 64-bar refrain that characterizes the structure of most pop music, but tells its entire story in 32 bars.

Recordings

 * Gene Austin (1931)
 * Louis Armstrong (1931)
 * Chet Baker - Baker's Holiday (1965)
 * Ethel Waters (1931)
 * Benny Goodman (1931)
 * Maxine Sullivan (1942)
 * Lee Wiley (1944)
 * Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours (1955)
 * Harry James (1944)
 * Billie Holiday (1945)
 * Nat King Cole (1951)
 * Doris Day - You're My Thrill (1949)
 * Carmen McRae (1955)
 * Julie London (1956)
 * Sonny Rollins (1956)
 * Julie Wilson (1957)
 * The Four Freshmen - Love Lost (1959)
 * Ray Charles - The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
 * Andy Williams (1959)
 * Anthony Newley (1960)
 * Sarah Vaughan - The Divine One (1961), How Long Has This Been Going On? (1978), Send in the Clowns (1981)
 * Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1962), Ella and Oscar (1975), All That Jazz (1989)
 * Vic Damone - 1963
 * Kate Smith - Kate Smith at Carnegie Hall (1963)
 * Brenda Lee - 1964
 * Marvin Gaye - When I'm Alone I Cry (1964)
 * Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band - All Smiles (1968)
 * Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle - Lush Life (1984)
 * Mina - Uiallalla (1989)
 * Carly Simon - My Romance (1990)
 * Dorothy Loudon - Saloon (1991)
 * Sue Raney - When Your Lover Has Gone/Songs For A Raney Day (1997)
 * Stacey Kent - Dreamsville (2001)
 * Derek Bailey - Ballads (2002)
 * Kevin Spacey (2004)