"Who's Sorry Now?" is a popular song with music written by Ted Snyder and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. It was published in 1923.[1]
Who's Sorry Now? was featured in the Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca (1946), directed by Archie Mayo and released by United Artists.
The song has been recorded by a number of artists. The Tiny Hill Orchestra recorded it in 1945 (Mercury Records catalog number 2041). Another one of those was an August 20, 1951 recording by Jerry Gray and his orchestra (Decca Records catalog number 27868[2]) .
The song was recorded in 1958 by Connie Francis, and since then the song has become generally associated with her due to the widespread popularity of her version. It reached #4 on the Billboard charts in the U.S. and earned a gold record for sales of one million copies, and spent six weeks at #1 in the UK.
Ella Fitzgerald included this song on ther 1960 Verve release Let No Man Write My Epitaph, accompanied only by pianist Paul Smith.
Marie Osmond did a version of the song in 1975. It reached #21 on the US Billboard charts and was the title track to her third studio album.
Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi perform the song in the film All That Jazz (1979).
Harry Connick, Jr. recorded it as a bonus track for his 2009 album Your Songs.
References
- ^ Furia, Phillip; Lasser, Michael. America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley. CRC Press. p. 36. ISBN 0415972469. "On infrequent occasions Ruby also worked on lyrics. He and Kalmar wrote the words to a Tom Snyder tune they called "Who's Sorry Now?""
- ^ Decca Records in the 27500 to 27999 series
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