It Never Entered My Mind - Wikipedia It Never Entered My Mind `` It Never Entered My Mind '' Song from Higher and Higher Published 1940 Songwriter ( s ) Lorenz Hart Composer ( s ) Richard Rodgers `` It Never Entered My Mind '' is a 1940 show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher ( 1940 ), where it was introduced by Shirley Ross in 1940. Notable recordings Frank Sinatra - Frankly Sentimental ( 1949 ) Originally recorded November 5, 1947, In the Wee Small Hours ( 1955 ), She Shot Me Down ( 1981 ) Patty Andrews ( with Gordon Jenkins and orchestra ) ( 1951 ) Julie London - Julie Is Her Name ( 1955 ) Miles Davis - Miles Davis, Volume 3 ( Blue Note 1954 ) & Workin ' with the Miles Davis Quintet ( Prestige 1956 ) Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook ( 1956 ) Bud Powell - Bud Powell 's Moods ( 1956 ) Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster ( 1957 ) Stan Getz - Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House ( 1957 ) Jeri Southern - Southern Hospitality ( 1958 ) Stan Getz - Jazz Giants ' 58 Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan Sings Broadway : Great Songs from Hit Shows ( 1958 ) Chet Baker - Chet ( 1959 ) Barbara Cook - Barbara Cook Sings `` From the Heart '' ( 1959 ) Joni James - 100 Strings and Joni ( 1959 ) Stan Getz - Cool Velvet : Stan Getz and Strings ( 1960 ) Anita O'Day - Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart ( 1960 ) Chris Connor - Double Exposure with Maynard Ferguson ( 1961 ), Warm Cool : The Atlantic Years ( 2000 ) June Christy - The Intimate Miss Christy ( 1963 ) Rosemary Clooney - Love ( 1963 ) Johnny Hartman - The Voice That Is ! ! ( 1964 ) Jack Jones - Where Love Has Gone ( 1964 ) Leontyne Price - Right as the Rain ( 1967 ) Oscar Peterson - Another Day ( 1972 ) Jackie McLean with the Great Jazz Trio - New Wine in Old Bottles ( 1978 ) Keith Jarrett Trio - Standards ( 1983 ) Larry Coryell - Comin ' Home ( 1984 ) Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle - Lush Life ( 1984 ) George Shearing - Grand Piano ( album ) ( 1985 ) Susannah McCorkle - Ballad Essentials ( 2002 ) Beegie Adair - Centennial Composers : Richard Rodgers ( 2003 ) Mark Murphy - Once to Every Heart ( 2005 ) Hugh Masekela - Almost Like Being in Jazz ( 2005 ) Chris Botti - Italia ( 2007 ) The Miles Davis recording was used in the movies Runaway Bride ( 1999 ) and the Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny ( 1974 ). References Jump up ^ http://songbook1.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/it-never-entered-my-mind/ Jump up ^ `` Comin ' Home overview ''. Allmusic.com. Jump up ^ `` Hugh Masekela -- Almost Like Being In Jazz ''. Discogs. discogs.com. Retrieved 24 October 2017. Jump up ^ `` Italia overview ''. Allmusic.com. Rodgers and Hart Musicals The Garrick Gaieties Dearest Enemy The Girl Friend Peggy - Ann A Connecticut Yankee Present Arms Ever Green Simple Simon America 's Sweetheart Jumbo On Your Toes Babes in Arms I 'd Rather Be Right The Boys from Syracuse I Married an Angel Too Many Girls Higher and Higher Pal Joey By Jupiter Songs `` Manhattan '' `` Mountain Greenery '' `` Here in My Arms '' `` Blue Room '' `` My Heart Stood Still '' `` Thou Swell '' `` To Keep My Love Alive '' `` You Took Advantage of Me '' `` With a Song in My Heart '' `` A Ship Without a Sail '' `` Dancing on the Ceiling '' `` Ten Cents a Dance '' `` He Was Too Good to Me '' `` I 've Got Five Dollars '' `` Is n't It Romantic ? '' `` Lover '' `` Mimi '' `` Blue Moon '' `` It 's Easy to Remember ( And So Hard to Forget ) '' `` The Most Beautiful Girl in the World '' `` My Romance '' `` Little Girl Blue '' `` There 's a Small Hotel '' `` Glad to Be Unhappy '' `` Slaughter on Tenth Avenue '' `` Where or When '' `` I Wish I Were in Love Again '' `` My Funny Valentine '' `` Johnny One Note '' `` The Lady Is a Tramp '' `` Have You Met Miss Jones ? '' `` I 'll Tell the Man in the Street '' `` Spring Is Here '' `` Falling in Love with Love '' `` This Ca n't Be Love '' `` Sing for Your Supper '' `` I Like to Recognize the Tune '' `` I Did n't Know What Time It Was '' `` Give It Back to the Indians '' `` You 're Nearer '' `` It Never Entered My Mind '' `` I Could Write a Book '' `` Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered '' `` Ev'rything I 've Got '' `` Wait till You See Her '' This article about a jazz standard or composition written in the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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Question: who wrote the song it never entered my mind
Answer: Lorenz Hart