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
- Chuck Wayne – The Jazz Guitarist
- Al Cohn – The Sax Section
- Phineas Newborn Jr. – While My Lady Sleeps
- John Coltrane – Coltrane
- Chet Baker – 1987 CD reissue of It Could Happen to You
- Nelson Eddy – Favorites in Stereo
- Mike Taylor – Trio
- Harold Mabern and Geoff Keezer – For Phineas
- Jan Lundgren – A Touch Of You
- Michael Feinstein – ''Fly Me to the Moon''