Body and Soul song: Encyclopedia - Body and Soul song

"Body and Soul" is the title of a popular song written in 1930 by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and John Green. It was introduced in the revue Three's A Crowd by Libby Holman. It was used as a soundtrack theme in the 1947 film. The song later became a jazz standard, with hundreds of versions performed and recorded by dozens of artists. By far the most famous of these is the take recorded by Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra on October 11, 1939 at their only reording session for Bluebird, a subsidiary of RCA Victor. Ha

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