The list of recordings below may not be exhaustive.
Artist | Recording | Type | Year | ## |
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Hal Kemp & his Orchestra | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1936* | US |
Vincent Lopez & his Orchestra | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1936* | US |
Henry King & his Orchestra | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1936* | US |
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1936* | US |
Paul Robeson | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1936* | US |
The Albert Sandler Trio with Hildegarde | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1936* | UK/US |
Damia | Sombre Dimanche | 10″ 78rpm | 1936 | FR |
Trío Piana-Garza-Kohan / Mercedes Simone | Triste Domingo | 10″ 78rpm | 1937 | AR |
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra | Don’t Fall Asleep | 10″ 78rpm | 1940 | US |
Billie Holiday | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1941 | US |
Don Byas | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1946 | US |
Billy Eckstine & his Orchestra | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1946 | US |
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra | Gloomy Sunday | 10″ 78rpm | 1949 | US |
Shelly Manne & Bill Russo | Deep People | LP | 1951 | US |
Jerry Wald Orchestra | Listen to The Music of Jerry Wald-2 | LP | 1955 | US |
Page Cavanaugh | Carries the Torch | LP | 1956 | US |
Leroy Holmes & his Orchestra | Music for Crazy Mixed-Up People | LP | 1957 | US |
Josh White | Josh White Sings Ballads and Blues | LP | 1957 | US |
Woody Herman & his Orchestra | Live at Peacock Lane Hollywood | live LP | 1958 | US |
The Creed Taylor Orchestra | Shock Music in Hi-Fi | LP | 1958 | US |
Mel Tormé | Tormé | LP | 1958 | US |
Mickey Baker | Wildest Guitar | LP | 1959 | US |
Miss Toni Fisher | The Big Hurt | LP | 1959 | US |
Bev Kelly | Love Locked Out | LP | 1959 | US |
Claudia Thompson | Goodbye to Love | LP | 1959 | US |
Lorez Alexandria | Sing No Sad Songs For Me | LP | 1961 | US |
The Bob Brookmeyer Orchestra | Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments | LP | 1961 | US |
Johnny Griffin with Strings & Brass | White Gardenia | LP | 1961 | US |
Sarah Vaughan | The Divine One | LP | 1961 | US |
Dorothy Ashby | Dorothy Ashby | LP | 1962 | US |
Ketty Lester | Love Letters | LP | 1962 | US |
Peter Nero | Hail The Conquering Hero | LP | 1963 | US |
Roy Hamilton | Sentimental, Lonely and Blue | LP | 1964 | US |
Jimmy Smith | Monster | LP | 1965 | US |
Stan Kenton | The World We Know | LP | 1967 | US |
Herbie Mann | The Herbie Mann String Album | LP | 1967 | US |
Anna Black | Meet Anna Black | LP | 1968 | US |
Genesis | In The Beginning | LP | 1968 | US |
Carmen McRae | The Sound Of Silence | LP | 1968 | US |
Rita Moss | Superb | LP | 1968 | US |
Ray Charles | I’m All Yours-Baby! | LP | 1969 | US |
Joanne Vent | Black and White of it is Blues | LP | 1969 | US |
Barbara Dickson | Do Right Woman | LP | 1970 | UK |
Big Maybelle | The Last of Big Maybelle | LP | 1973 | US |
Jimmy Witherspoon | Spoonful | LP | 1975 | US |
Etta Jones | My Mother’s Eyes | LP | 1977 | US |
Lydia Lunch | Queen of Siam | LP | 1980 | US |
Elvis Costello & the Attractions | Trust | LP | 1981 | UK |
The Associates | Sulk | LP | 1982 | UK |
Marc and The Mambas | Torment And Toreros | LP | 1983 | UK |
Swansway | Soul Train | single | 1983 | UK |
Hades | Born To Metalize | comp. LP | 1984 | US |
Peter Wolf | Lights Out | LP | 1985 | US |
Christian Death | Atrocities | LP | 1986 | US |
Marianne Faithfull | A Perfect Stranger | comp. LP | 1987 | UK |
Serge Gainsbourg | You’re Under Arrest | LP | 1987 | FR |
Abbey Lincoln | Abbey Sings Billie Volume 1 | LP | 1987 | US |
Cats Laughing | Cats Laughing | cassette | 1988 | US |
Carol Kidd | The Night We Called It A Day | LP | 1990 | US |
Diamanda Galás | The Singer | LP | 1992 | US |
Sinéad O’Connor | Am I Not Your Girl | LP | 1992 | IR |
Charles Brown | Just a Lucky So and So | LP | 1994 | US |
Satan’s Cheerleaders | Infinity | LP | 1994 | US |
Gitane Demone | With Love And Dementia | live LP | 1995 | US |
Louis Tillett & Charlie Owen | Midnight Rain | LP | 1995 | AU |
Sarah McLachlan | Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff | comp. LP | 1996 | CA |
Lil Darling Hot Club | All That Swing | LP | 1997 | IT |
Danny Michel | Clear | LP | 1998 | CA |
Satan’s Sadists | Sympathetic Majesties Request | comp. LP | 1998 | US |
Björk | Stormy Weather | comp. LP | 1999 | IS |
Heather Nova | Gloomy Sunday | single | 1999 | BM |
The Smithereens | God Save The Smithereens | LP | 1999 | US |
Sarah Brightman | La Luna | LP | 2000 | UK |
Kronos Quartet | Kronos Caravan | LP | 2000 | US |
Ricky Nelson | Legacy | comp. LP | 2000** | US |
Hans Koller | Lovers and Strangers | LP | 2001 | DE |
Iva Bittová | j.h. | LP | 2002 | CZ |
Singing Loins | The Complete and Utter | LP | 2004 | UK |
Venetian Snares | Rossz Csillag Alatt Született*** | LP | 2005 | CA |
Eminemmylou | Muthabanjo | LP | 2005 | UK |
Emilie Autumn | Opheliac [deluxe edition] | LP | 2009 | US |
## | Nationality | |
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AR | – | Argentina |
AU | – | Australia |
BM | – | Bermuda |
CA | – | Canada |
CZ | – | Czech Republic |
DE | – | Germany |
FR | – | France |
IR | – | Republic of Ireland |
IS | – | Iceland |
IT | – | Italy |
UK | – | United Kingdom |
US | – | United States of America |
Key | Notes |
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* | ‘Gloomy Sunday / Desire’ 10″ 78rpm released by Hal Kemp & his Orchestra on 5th March 1936 (US) |
‘Gloomy Sunday / I Don’t Want To Make History (I Just Want To Make Love)’ 10″ 78rpm released by Vincent Lopez & his Orchestra on 9th March 1936 (US) |
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‘Gloomy Sunday / A Waltz Was Born In Vienna’ 10″ 78rpm released by Henry King & his Orchestra on 10th March 1936 (US) |
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‘Gloomy Sunday / A Waltz Was Born In Vienna’ 10″ 78rpm released by Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra on 13th March 1936 (US) |
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‘Gloomy Sunday / Honey’ 10″ 78rpm released by Paul Robeson on 26th March 1936 (US) |
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‘Gloomy Sunday’ 10″ 78rpm released by The Albert Sandler Trio with Hildegarde on 3rd April 1936 (UK) |
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** | Gloomy Sunday was originally recorded by Ricky Nelson in 1958 but remained unreleased until the “Legacy” box set compilation was issued in 2000. |
*** | LP track ‘Öngyilkos Vasárnap’ samples extensively from 1941 Billie Holiday recording. |