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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (song)

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1931 song by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler

"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"
Song byCab Calloway
Published	1931 (1931) byMills Music
Songwriters	Harold Arlen andTed Koehler

"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" is an Americanpopular song published in1931,^[1] with music byHarold Arlen and lyrics byTed Koehler, and first recorded byCab Calloway in 1931. It was introduced in the 1931Cotton Club showRhythmania^[2] and is now a widely recordedstandard.

Joel Whitburn identified the most successful early recordings as being by:^[3]

Cab Calloway recorded October 21, 1931^[4] forBrunswick Records (catalogue No. 6209)
Louis Armstrong performed a version featuring a trumpet solo which was recorded on January 25, 1932 and released by Columbia Records, catalogue No. 2600D.^[5]
The Boswell Sisters withThe Dorsey Brothers (Recorded March 21, 1932, Brunswick Records, No. 6291)^[6]

1933Sing, Bing, Sing –Bing Crosby sang an abridged version of the song in thisMack Sennett short.
1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – An instrumental version is played during one of the dance scenes.
1984City Heat – sung byEloise Laws.^[11]

Featured in the 2013 showAfter Midnight.

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v t e Cab Calloway
Singles	"Saint Louis Blues" (1930) "Minnie the Moocher" (1931) "St. James Infirmary" (1931) "Nobody's Sweetheart" (1931) "Six or Seven Times" (1931) "You Rascal, You" (1931) "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (1931) "Reefer Man" (1932) "I've Got the World on a String" (1932) "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (1933) "(Hep Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive" (1939) "Bye Bye Blues" (1941) "Blues in the Night" (1942) "The Honeydripper" (1946) "Little Child" (1956) "History Repeats Itself" (1966) "Minnie the Moocher" (1978)
Musical shorts	Minnie the Moocher (1932) Snow-White (1933) The Old Man of the Mountain (1933) Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934) Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935) Alright (1990)
Band members	Eddie Barefield Danny Barker Mario Bauzá Chu Berry Jerry Blake Andrew Brown Doc Cheatham Cozy Cole Shad Collins R.Q. Dickerson Panama Francis Dizzy Gillespie Tyree Glenn J. C. Heard Milt Hinton Quentin Jackson Illinois Jacquet Hilton Jefferson Keg Johnson Claude Jones Jonah Jones Al Morgan Rudy Powell Ike Quebec Reuben Reeves Edwin Swayze Walter Thomas Ben Webster Morris White Lammar Wright Sr.
Related	The Cab Calloway Orchestra Camay Calloway Murphy (daughter) Blanche Calloway (sister) Sunset Cafe The Missourians Cotton Club Hepcat Jive talk Zoot suit Jitterbug Cab Calloway School of the Arts "Hi-De-Ho"

v t e The Boswell Sisters
Martha Boswell Connee Boswell Helvetia Boswell
Singles	"I Found a Million Dollar Baby" "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" "Dinah" "Alexander's Ragtime Band" "St. Louis Blues" "Cheek to Cheek" "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"
Film Appearances	The Big Broadcast (1932) Meet the Baron (1933) Moulin Rouge (1934) Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)

Authority control databases	MusicBrainz work

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