Ella Fitzgerald Cry Me A River ( Verve Records 1961)

Cry Me a River is a popular American torch song, written by Arthur Hamilton and first published in 1953, and made famous in the version by Julie London, 1955. A jazzy blues ballad, Cry Me a River was originally written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the 1920sset film, Pete Kelly s Blues (released 1955) but the song was dropped. It has been said that it was dropped because, at the time of Ella s recording, film and record producers said that the audience would not believe that a colored, black person br, br,