Julie London - Cry Me a River [Americana] 4K Remastered 1

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Written for Ella Fitzgerald by Arthur Hamilton, and published in 1953, "Cry Me a River" had been offered to Peggy King, but Columbia Records A&R chief Mitch Miller objected to the word "plebeian" in the lyric.

Instead the song was made famous in 1955 by Julie London, backed by Barney Kessel on guitar and Ray Leatherwood on bass. The performance was inducted in 2001 into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Reaching no. 9 on US and no. 22 on the UK Singles Chart, it became a gold record, and in 2016, it was inducted by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry.

London recorded over thirty albums of pop and jazz standards between 1955 and 1969, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1974 for her portrayal of Nurse Dixie McCall in the television series Emergency!

A chain smoker from the age of 16 , at times smoking over three packs a day, she had a stroke in 1995 and was diagnosed with lung cancer in late 1999. She died in the hospital on October 18, 2000, at age 74.