What is the best ever version of "Moonlight in Vermont"?

[Lat-Literal]

I need to know because clearly it's one of the best tunes of all time.

As regular readers will appreciate, the one I like is very lounge but there are sentimental reasons.

And I'd like the definitive please one plus any imaginative googlies:

Brinky and Pims - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89yF8v-Md5o

[Quarky]

You would have to go a long way to beat Ella and Louis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esynsha53A8

Nat Cole catches the mood perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKB_RpYvDNM

[Lat-Literal]

You would have to go a long way to beat Ella and Louis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esynsha53A8

A very good start for which many thanks.

[Alain Maréchal]

You would have to go a long way to beat Ella and Louis:

not too far though: Ella, arranged and conducted by Frank de Vol, on "Hello Love" 1960.

(I have no idea what I'm doing on the Jazz board - apart from being a livelong fan of EF, "Willow weep for me", same album, might just pip it in my appreciation).

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

There's no best. But the best! is the. Gerry Mulligan/Bob Brookmeyer quartet live concert recording from 1954, Paris Salle Pleyel. When apparently they were at each other's throats. It has lodged in my mind for well over fifty years. 3 minutes nine seconds.

Johnny Smith/Stan Getz had the classic hit with it. Ray Charles recorded a good (if slightly sacarine) vocal version.

BN.

[Lat-Literal]

There's no best. But the best! is the. Gerry Mulligan/Bob Brookmeyer quartet live concert recording from 1954, Paris Salle Pleyel. When apparently they were at each other's throats. It has lodged in my mind for well over fifty years. 3 minutes nine seconds.

Johnny Smith/Stan Getz had the classic hit with it. Ray Charles recorded a good (if slightly sacarine) vocal version.

BN.

Is it anything like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-LFuSc1sSE

Quote:

"The lyrics are unusual in that they do not rhyme. Blackburn, the lyricist, has been quoted as saying, "After completing the first 12 bars of the lyric, I realized there was no rhyme and then said to Karl, 'Let’s follow the pattern of no rhyme throughout the song. It seemed right.'" The lyrics are also unconventional in that each verse (not counting the bridge) is a haiku".

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Yes, but the Paris Mulligan is more atmospheric and for me far more memorable. But almost the same arrangement. Interesting (if that Sweden date is right) that they kept it in the book. Origin being the lineup with Chet Baker.

BN.

[Jazzrook]

I need to know because clearly it's one of the best tunes of all time.

As regular readers will appreciate, the one I like is very lounge but there are sentimental reasons.

And I'd like the definitive please one plus any imaginative googlies:

Brinky and Pims - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89yF8v-Md5o

I've always liked Billie Holiday's 1957 version with Ben Webster from 'Songs For Distingue Lovers'(VERVE):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt6JC3njOi8

JR

[Richard Barrett]

Captain Beefheart surely. (slightly different title)

[Quarky]

I would have loved to hear Tommy Dorsey/ Pied Pipers/ young Sinatra perform this, but I gather it wasn't composed until 1944.

The original version by Margaret Whiting/ Billy Butterfield wasn't bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdbHf3ml0J0
It seems Margaret made a career out of singing this toon.
Jo Stafford also recorded it.

[cloughie]

Captain Beefheart surely. (slightly different title)

Or maybe Willie Nelson.

[gradus]

Sinatra and the lovely Billy May arrangement.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Sat 16/9 2.50pm ...R3 is now playing the Ella & Louis version. Beautiful, but I still hear Gerry's baritone going "dut dut dut a dut a dut". It's hard wired.

BN.