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Music Cover Gets Cat a Contract Music Job!


This cover I created a few years ago that I have on my Soundcloud just got me another music gig job. It just goes to show that you have to put yourself out there so people know you actually exist. I emailed my favourite author Jonathan Kellerman some time ago to tell him how much I enjoyed his books. We chatted and through him, I mentioned this cover I had done and he told me he knew the composer of it! He had just had dinner with him. The composer is quite old now but still alive. What a rare treat to be connected with someone who created one of my favourite songs and then meet someone through them who just hired me for a music job.



"Cry Me a River" is a popular American torch song, written by Arthur Hamilton, first published in 1953 and made famous in 1955 with the version by Julie London.

A bluesy jazz ballad, "Cry Me a River" was originally written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the 1920s-set film, Pete Kelly's Blues (released 1955). According to Hamilton, he and Julie London had been high school classmates, and she contacted him on behalf of her husband, Jack Webb, who was the film's director and was looking for new songs for its soundtrack.[2] After the song was dropped from the film, Fitzgerald first released her version on Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! in 1961. The song was also offered to Peggy King, but Columbia Records A&R chief Mitch Miller objected to the word "plebeian" in the lyric.[3][4]


The song's first release was by actress and singer Julie London on Liberty Records in 1955, backed by Barney Kessel on guitar and Ray Leatherwood on bass.[5] London had been urged to record the song by Bobby Troup, whom she would later marry after her divorce from Webb.[2] A performance of the song by London in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It, helped to make it a bestseller (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 in the National Recording Registry.[6]

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