'Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone' by Walt Smith @ Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2010

'Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone' (Sam Stept / Sidney Clare) performed by Walt Smith @ Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival 2010 in the Grassmarket

"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" is a popular song.
The music was written by Sam H. Stept, the lyrics by Sidney Clare. Original publication also credited singer Bee Palmer as co-composer. The song was published in 1930. The chorus uses virtually the same chord sequence as the 1925 composition 'Has Anybody Seen My Gal?'. A diverse group of performers have recorded this song over the years, including The Mills Brothers, Willie Nelson, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ann-Margret, Bob Wills, Piano Red, Billie Holiday, and Bill Haley & His Comets, a duet between Harry Connick, Jr. and Carmen McRae, Leon Redbone, and as recently as 2007 by Manteca Beat and by The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band in 2009. In August 2007, a recording of the song with Dean Martin and Robbie Williams was released. Jamie Cullum also performed the song on the last Michael Parkinson chat show in December 2007.
This song is also featured on Ella Fitzgerald's 1979 performance with Count Basie & His Orchestra, A Perfect Match.
The song is also sung by the character Michigan J. Frog in the Warner Bros. animated short One Froggy Evening (1955).

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