The Very Thought of You

"The Very Thought of You" is a pop standard recorded and published in 1934 with music and words by Ray Noble.

The song was first released by HMV in England in 1934 by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with Al Bowlly on vocals. This record was then released in the United States as Victor 24657-A. The B side was "I'll Be Good Because of You". Noble re-recorded the song in 1941 in a hit version released on Columbia Records as 36546 featuring the vocals of Snooky Lanson.

A popular version was also recorded in 1941 by Bing Crosby.

In 1944, the Warner Bros. film of the same name, The Very Thought of You, was the impetus for a 1944 version by Vaughn Monroe, sung by Marilyn Duke, released on Victor 20-1605-A.

In 1946, Luis Russell recorded the song, which went to number three on the Most-Played Juke Box Race Records charts.

Doris Day sang the song in the 1950 movie Young Man with a Horn, a fictional tale partly based on the life of early jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. An instrumental version of the song is featured in the movie Casablanca and is played in Rick Blaine's club in the scene where Sascha kisses Rick Blaine on the cheek just before Ilse Lund and Victor Lazlo enter Rick's for the first time.

In 1961, "The Very Thought of You" was on the charts again, in a rhythm & blues version recorded by Little Willie John, and three years later a rock and roll version by Ricky Nelson reached #26 on the Billboard chart, lasting 7 weeks in the Hot 100 and crossing to #11 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart.

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