Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (song)

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

1. Cab Calloway recorded October 21, 1931[4] for Brunswick Records (catalogue No. 6209)
2. 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]
3. The Boswell Sisters with The Dorsey Brothers (Recorded March 21, 1932, Brunswick Records, No. 6291)[6]

• 1932 Kate Smith recorded January 28, 1932 for Columbia Records with Blues in My Heart interpolated.[7]
• 1935 Benny Goodman and orchestra (July 1, 1935 for Victor)[8] with Helen Ward on lead vocal
• 1939 Count Basie (recorded November 7, 1939)[9] featuring Helen Humes as vocalist
• 1937 Phil Harris recorded it for Vocalion Records on Feb. 27, 1937.[10]
• 1955 Ella Fitzgerald – included in her album Sweet and Hot.
• 1956 Dick Haymes – recorded for his album Moondreams.[11]
• 1957 Buddy Rich performed the song on his album Buddy Rich Just Sings
• 1957 Bing Crosby included it in the album New Tricks.
• 1957 Carmen McRae for her album After Glow.
• 1958 Perry Como included in the album Saturday Night with Mr. C.
• 1960 Bobby Darin recorded a version influenced by Latin music in Feb. 1960, released in 1964 on the album Winners.
• 1961 Ella Fitzgerald recorded it for her 1961 Verve album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
• 1961 Joni James for her album The Mood Is Romance.[12]
• 1964 Mel Tormé on his self-titled album.[13]
• 1967 Thelonious Monk played the song on his 1967 album, Straight, No Chaser
• 1993 Diana Krall – an instrumental version was included on her album Stepping Out.
• 2002 George Harrison on his posthumous final album, Brainwashed

• 1933 Sing, Bing, Sing – Bing Crosby sang an abridged version of the song in this Mack Sennett short.
• 1984 City Heat – sung by Eloise Laws.[14]

Featured in the 2013 show After Midnight.