Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" was written by Sam H. Stept with lyrics by Sidney Clare. The original publication also credited singer Bee Palmer as co-composer. The song was published in 1930. The lyrics are an admonishment between parting lovers, where the singer asks the other to either speak nicely of her, or not at all."Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" is also the name of an award winning stage play by playwright Tobias Manderson-Galvin.

A diverse group of performers have recorded this jazz standard over the years, including Ethel Waters, The Mills Brothers, Willie Nelson, Frank Sinatra, Rita Reys, Dean Martin, Ray Price, Sammy Davis, Jr, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ann-Margret, Bob Wills, Piano Red, Billie Holiday, and Bill Haley & His Comets, a duet between Harry Connick, Jr. and Carmen McRae, Leon Redbone, Helen Humes, Mose Allison, and as recently as 2007 by Manteca Beat and by The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band in 2009. Deana Martin recorded the tune on her 2009 album “Volare.” Television anchor Edwin Newman sang the song during his hosting of Saturday Night Live in 1984.

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