While My Lady Sleeps (song)

"While My Lady Sleeps" is a 1941 jazz standard composed by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song was written for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Chocolate Soldier, where it was sung by Nelson Eddy.

The song's main key is C major and its chorus has an unusual 40-bar AABC form.

Notable renditions

• Ray Noble and His Orchestra with Roy Lanson (1941)
• Chuck Wayne – The Jazz Guitarist (1953)
• Al Cohn – The Sax Section (1956)
• Phineas Newborn Jr. – While My Lady Sleeps (1957)
• John Coltrane – Coltrane (1957)
• Chet Baker – 1987 CD reissue of It Could Happen to You (1958)
• Nelson Eddy – Favorites in Stereo (1958)
• Mike Taylor – Trio (1967)
• Harold Mabern and Geoff Keezer – For Phineas (1995)
• Jan Lundgren – A Touch Of You (1998)
• Michael Feinstein – Fly Me to the Moon (2010)

References