Ridin' High (song)
Ridin' High is a 1936 popular song written by Cole Porter, for his musical Red, Hot and Blue, where it was introduced by Ethel Merman.
Notable recordings
- Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - 'Camel Caravan' (Live Broadcast Radio Program) (Nov. 2, 1937), arranged by Jimmy Mundy; Jazz Concert No. 2 (Columbia LP: ML 4590) (1952)
- Chris Connor - This is Chris (1955)
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956)
- Michel Legrand - The Columbia Album of Cole Porter (1957)
- Mark Murphy - Let Yourself Go (1958), arranged by Ralph Burns
- Jeri Southern - Southern Breeze (1958), arr. Marty Paich, reissued on CD as Southern Breeze/Coffee Cigarettes and Memories (1998)
- Peggy Lee - Things Are Swingin' (1959), arranged by Jack Marshall
- Teresa Brewer - Ridin' High (1960), arranged by Jerry Fielding
- Doris Day - Bright and Shiny (1961), arranged by Neal Hefti
- Maynard Ferguson - Ridin' High (1966)
- Cleo Laine - Portrait (1971), arranged by John Dankworth
- Sue Raney - Ridin' High (1984), with the Bob Florence quartet
- Hod O'Brien - Ridin' High (1990)
- Robert Palmer - Ridin' High (1992), arranged by Clare Fischer
- Rebecca Martin - Middlehope (2000)
- Fay Claassen - Red, Hot & Blue: The Music of Cole Porter (2008), arranged by Michael Abene
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