Lover Come Back to Me

~ Recording by Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
2.5Lover Come Back to Me3:26Dizzy GillespieDizzy Gillespie, Volume 1/2 (1946–1949)Dizzy GillespieAlbum + Compilation
RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)ND 89763
2.4Lover, Come Back to Me3:34Dizzy GillespieThe Complete RCA Victor RecordingsDizzy GillespieAlbum + Compilation
  • US1995-01-24
Bluebird (US label, originally a budget subsidiary of RCA Victor)66528-2
1.9Lover, Come Back to Me3:34Dizzy GillespieGreatest HitsDizzy GillespieAlbum + Compilation
RCA Victor74321 52069 2
1.16Lover Come Back to Me3:33Dizzy GillespieCool BreezeDizzy GillespieAlbum
Past Perfect Silver Line (Infringing DE reissue label run by TIM The International Music Company AG)204341-203
1.11Lover Come Back to Me3:35Dizzy Gillespie and His OrchestraThe Chronological Classics: Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra 1947-1949Dizzy Gillespie and His OrchestraAlbum + Compilation
Classics (French jazz reissue label)1102
3.16Lover Come Back to Me3:32Dizzy GillespieSwing Low, Sweet CadillacDizzy GillespieAlbum + Compilation
Membran Music Ltd.233342
1.4Lover, Come Back to Me3:36Dizzy GillespieThe Essential JazzVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • CA2012-04-17
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)88691930332
1.26Lover, Come Back to Me3:34Dizzy GillespieThe Complete RCA Victor RecordingsDizzy GillespieAlbum + Compilation
  • MX2018-09-21
Doxy Records (DOXY around red-bordered cover; bootleg reissues)

Relationships

recorded in:New York, New York, United States (on 1948-12-29)
alto saxophone:John Brown (alto saxophone player) (on 1948-12-29)
Ernie Henry (on 1948-12-29)
baritone saxophone:Cecil Payne (on 1948-12-29)
bass, double bass and double bass [bass]:Al McKibbon (double bassist) (on 1948-12-29)
bongos:Sabu Martinez (on 1948-12-29)
congas:Joe Harris (jazz drummer/percussionist) (on 1948-12-29)
drums (drum set):Teddy Stewart (on 1948-12-29)
instruments:James Forman (piano) (on 1948-12-29)
percussion:Joe Harris (jazz drummer/percussionist) (on 1948-12-29)
Louis “Sabu” Martinez (on 1948-12-29)
piano:James Forman Jr. (piano) (on 1948-12-29)
tenor saxophone:Joe Gayles (on 1948-12-29)
Budd Johnson (on 1948-12-29)
trombone:Willie Cook (US jazz trumpeter) (on 1948-12-29)
Andy Dureya (on 1948-12-29)
Andy Duryea (on 1948-12-29)
Sam Hurt (US 1940/50s jazz trombonist) (on 1948-12-29)
Jesse Tarrant (on 1948-12-29)
Elmon Wright (US 1940-70s jazz trumpeter) (on 1948-12-29)
trumpet:Willie Cook (US jazz trumpeter) (on 1948-12-29)
Dave Bruns (trumpet) (on 1948-12-29)
Dizzy Gillespie (on 1948-12-29)
Elmon Wright (US 1940-70s jazz trumpeter) (on 1948-12-29)
vocals:Dizzy Gillespie (on 1948-12-29)
recording of:Lover, Come Back to Me (from "The New Moon") (on 1948-12-29: cover; on 1948-12-29: instrumental)

Related works

Lover, Come Back to Me (from "The New Moon")

lyricist:Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers & Hammerstein) (in 1928)
writer:Sigmund Romberg
composer:Sigmund Romberg (in 1928)
publisher:Bambalina Music Publishing Company
Redwood Music
Warner Bros., Inc. (Warner Bros. Music Division)
Warner/Chappell (Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.)
Warner Bros., Inc. (not for release label use!) (in 1928)
sub-publisher:ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部 (Warner/Chappell Music Japan K.K., Synch Division)
ヤマハミュージックパブリッシング (Yamaha Music Publishing) (until 2017-03-31)
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label) (from 2017-04-01 to present)
referred to in medleys:Lover Medley
later translated versions:Eccentric Person, Come Back to Me
Laiverd, kom weer bie mie
恋人よ我に帰れ (Lover Come Back to Me, 今は淋しく 君は去りて 忘れられない あの面影…)
part of:The New Moon: Act II