# On Green Dolphin Street (song)

"On Green Dolphin Street" (originally titled "Green Dolphin Street") is a 1947 popular song composed by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Ned Washington. The song was composed for the film Green Dolphin Street, which was based on a 1944 novel of the same name by Elizabeth Goudge, and became a jazz standard in the 1950s.

## Renditions

| Date | Main recording artist | Vocalist | Album title, notes | Ref. |
| 1947 | Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra | Bill Lawrence | Soundtrack for Green Dolphin Street. The commercial recording charted briefly at No. 25 in January 1948. | |
| 1956 | Ahmad Jamal Trio | instrumental | Count 'Em 88 | |
| 1957 | Barney Kessel and the Poll Winners | instrumental | The Poll Winners | |
| 1958 | Miles Davis Sextet | instrumental | Jazz Track (with soundtrack Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), reissued as Basic Miles (1973) and 1958 Miles in Japan (1974), (also '58 Miles Featuring Stella by Starlight) | |
| 1959 | Bill Evans | instrumental | On Green Dolphin Street | |
| 1959 | Wynton Kelly | instrumental | Kelly Blue | |
| 1960 | Eric Dolphy Quintet | instrumental | Outward Bound | |
| 1960 | Duke Pearson | instrumental | Tender Feelin’s (album) | |
| 1960 | Dakota Staton | Dakota Staton | Dakota (1960) | |
| 1961 | Mark Murphy | Mark Murphy | Rah! | |
| 1961 | Dinah Washington | Dinah Washington | The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 7 (1961) | |
| 1961 | Nancy Wilson | Nancy Wilson | The Swingin's Mutual! | |
| 1961 | Grant Green | instrumental | Gooden's Corner | |
| 1962 | Oscar Peterson and Milt Jackson | instrumental | Very Tall | |
| 1962 | Mel Tormé | Mel Tormé | Comin' Home Baby! | |
| 1962 | Dodo Marmarosa | instrumental | Dodo's Back! | |
| 1962 | Sarah Vaughan | Sarah Vaughan | Included in her album You're Mine You (1962) | |
| 1963 | Albert Ayler | instrumental | My Name Is Albert Ayler | |
| 1963 | Vince Guaraldi Quintet | instrumental | In Person | |
| 1964 | Tony Bennett | Tony Bennett | When Lights Are Low | |
| 1964 | Erroll Garner | instrumental | Nightconcert (2018) - Recording from the Concertgebouw on November 7, 1964 | |
| 1965 | Sonny Rollins | instrumental | Sonny Rollins on Impulse! | |
| 1965 | Bunky Green | instrumental | Testifyin' Time | |
| 1973 | Jimmy McGriff Quintet | instrumental | Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail | |
| 1974 | Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis | instrumental | Leapin' on Lenox | |
| 1974 | Vince Guaraldi Trio | instrumental | Live on the Air | |
| 1977 | Return to Forever | instrumental | Live | |
| 1977 | Sadao Watanabe | instrumental | Live in Nemuro 1977 | |
| 1978 | Herbie Hancock | instrumental | The Piano | |
| 1982 | Tony Rice Unit | instrumental | Backwaters | |
| 1986 | Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Fitzgerald | Easy Living | |
| 1991 | Chick Corea Akoustic Band | instrumental | Alive | |
| 2021 | Alan Stassforth and Michael Lindner | instrumental | The Pandemic Sessions | [13] [14] |
| 2022 | Seth MacFarlane | Seth MacFarlane | Blue Skies |

## In popular culture

"On Green Dolphin Street" is referenced in the sixth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Stone Ocean in the name of Green Dolphin Street Prison, the primary setting of the story.