Jo Stafford Live - Blues in the Night

The Perry Como Show. May 25, 1957.
With The Ray Charles Singers & Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra.
"Blues in the Night" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues in the Night. The song is sung in the film by William Gillespie.
In addition, the song was recorded at least three times by Jo Stafford. Her previously unreleased 1942 version with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra was included in the 1966 Reader's Digest box set The Glenn Miller Years. On October 15, 1943, she recorded it with Johnny Mercer, the Pied Pipers, and Paul Weston's Orchestra, in a version released as a single and on an album by Capitol Records. On February 20, 1959, she recorded it with The Starlighters in a version released on an album by Columbia Records.