A Beautiful Friendship 25th in 1956

Music written by: Donald Kahn
Lyrics written by: Stanley Styne
Language: English
ISWC: T-070.010.687-1 ASCAP, BMI, ISWC, JASRAC
Published by: ETIENNE MARRIX MUSIC ASCAP, BMI
GILBERT KEYES MUSIC COMPANY ASCAP, BMI
ONE LESS CAR MUSIC ASCAP, BMI
SUNDOE MUSIC COMPANY ASCAP
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A Beautiful Friendship

First recording and first release by Ella Fitzgerald - Orchestra conducted by Buddy Bregman (March 27, 1956 / May 1956)

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A Beautiful Friendship written by Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
A Beautiful Friendship	Ella Fitzgerald - Orchestra conducted by Buddy Bregman	May 1956	First recording on March 27, 1956 First release
A Beautiful Friendship	Nat King Cole - George Shearing	March 1962
A Beautiful Friendship	Tommy Leonetti	October 1964
A Beautiful Friendship	Billy Eckstine	1964
Beautiful Friendship	Sue Raney	1964
A Beautiful Friendship	Tony Bennett	March 1967
A Beautiful Friendship	Jack Jones	March 1967
A Beautiful Friendship	Ahmad Jamal with Voices	1967
A Beautiful Friendship	Lou Rawls	June 1968
A Beautiful Friendship	The Four Freshmen - Arranged & Conducted by Ian Freebairn-Smith	September 1968
A Beautiful Friendship	Michael Dees	November 1968
A Beautiful Friendship	Helen O'Connell	1970
A Beautiful Friendship	Buddy Greco - Orchestra conducted by Bob Leaper	1973
A Beautiful Friendship	Joe Williams [US1]	1973
A Beautiful Friendship	Esther Phillips	November 1976
A Beautiful Friendship	Monty Alexander	1977	Unverified
A Beautiful Friendship	Carmen McRae	1977
A Beautiful Friendship	The Singers Unlimited with Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass	1980
A Beautiful Friendship	Dewey Erney with Ron Escheté	1983
A Beautiful Friendship	Judy Kreston and David Lahm	1985
Beautiful Friendship	Shirley Horn	April 18, 1989
A Beautiful Friendship	Julie Kelly with Tom Gavin	1989
Beautiful Friendship	Shanna Carlson	1989
A Beautiful Friendship	Swing Fever with Mary Stallings	1989
A Beautiful Friendship	The Ritz [US]	1991
A Beautiful Friendship	Jim Mair with Carmell Jones	1991
A Beautiful Friendship	Susannah McCorkle	January 24, 1992
A Beautiful Friendship	Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch	1992
Beautiful Friendship	Paula Owen, Ron Enyard (Paula Owen)	1993	Unverified
A Beautiful Friendship	Rosemary Clooney	1993
A Beautiful Friendship	Dado Moroni – Adriane West	1995
A Beautiful Friendship	Densil Pinnock, Jimmy Heath, Richard Wyands	1995
A Beautiful Friendship	Liane Carroll	1995
A Beautiful Friendship	Rebecca Parris & The Kenny Hadley Big Band	1995
Beautiful Friendship	Maurice Davis	April 23, 1996
A Beautiful Friendship	Kim Parker & Håkan Rydin Trio	September 1996
Beautiful Friendship	Marlena Shaw	1996
A Beautiful Friendship	Paul Broadnax	1996
A Beautiful Friendship	Ray Ward Trio	1997	Unverified
A Beautiful Friendship	Jeremy Davenport	1997
A Beautiful Friendship	Joe Gransden	1998
A Beautiful Friendship	Cassandre McKinley	April 20, 1999
A Beautiful Friendship	Lisa Michel	September 14, 1999
End of a Beautiful Friendship	Four Tops	September 28, 1999	Released more than 10 years after recording
A Beautiful Friendship	Julie Mason	1999	Unverified
Beautiful Friendship	Dena DeRose - Dwayne Burno, Mark Taylor	1999
Beautiful Friendship	Marlene Ver Planck	1999
A Beautiful Friendship	Joanie Pallatto and King Fleming	October 3, 2000
A Beautiful Friendship	Clairdee	2000
A Beautiful Friendship	Yoshiko Gotoh with George Gaffney	2000
A Beautiful Friendship	Alejandra Martín	2002
A Beautiful Friendship	Lynn Nelson and the Fred Brush Trio	2002
Beautiful Friendship	Janis Mann	2003
A Beautiful Friendship	Johnnie Eason	January 6, 2004
A Beautiful Friendship	Nicola Farnon	June 2004
A Beautiful Friendship	Keiko McNamara	2004
A Beautiful Friendship	Teraesa Vinson	2004
Beautiful Friendship	Jeff Baker	January 25, 2005
A Beautiful Friendship	Alyssa Graham	September 20, 2005
A Beautiful Friendship	Wesla Whitfield	2005
Beautiful Friendship	Marty Phillips Quartet	2005
A Beautiful Friendship	Ronald Douglas	2005
A Beautiful Friendship	Sliding Hammers	June 9, 2006
Beautiful Friendship	Jan Shapiro	October 6, 2006
A Beautiful Friendship	Mary Ann Hurst	2007
A Beautiful Friendship	Patti Wicks Trio	2007
A Beautiful Friendship	Scott Whitfield	2007
A Beautiful Friendship	Libby York	February 12, 2008
A Beautiful Friendship	Alexis Cole with One for All	October 20, 2010
A Beautiful Friendship	Laura Collins - Dick Pearce, Sam Dunn, Barry Green, Jeremy Brown, Matt Skelton	2010
Beautiful Friendship	Virginie Teychené	2010
A Beautiful Friendship	Sam Yahel	August 16, 2011	Unverified
A Beautiful Friendship	Yukari Matsuoka	February 2013
A Beautiful Friendship	Julian Wild	July 2014
Beautiful Friendship	Betty Bryant	November 3, 2014	Unverified
Beautiful Friendship	Ernie Andrews, The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (Ernie Andrews)	2014	Unverified
A Beautiful Friendship	Katie Thiroux	February 3, 2015
A Beautiful Friendship	Alexis Cole & Bucky Pizzarelli	June 17, 2015
A Beautiful Friendship	Kelly Eisenhour	January 20, 2017
A Beautiful Friendship	Norm Drubner	November 9, 2017
A Beautiful Friendship	Sarah McKenzie	March 29, 2019
A Beautiful Friendship	Laura Anglade	June 21, 2019
A Beautiful Friendship	Wilma Baan	July 28, 2023	Unverified

A Beautiful Friendship written by Donald Kahn instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	Beautiful Friendship	Si Zentner His Trombone and His Orchestra	1959
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Duke Ellington	1965	Unverified
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Don Lusher Quartet	1967
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Laurindo Almeida	March 1968
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Stanley Turrentine	August 1968
i	A Beautiful Friendship	The Hanna-Fontana Band	1975
i	(This Is the End of…) A Beautiful Friendship	Gerry Wiggins	1977
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Milt Jackson & Ray Brown	1977
i	This Is the End of a Beautiful Friendship	Buster Williams Trio	1978
i	The End of a Beautiful Friendship	Dave McKenna	1978	Live
i	This Is the End of a Beautiful Friendship	Bobby Durham Trio	1979
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Gary Foster with M. Kanno Trio	1979
i	Beautiful Friendship	Ron Carter/Cedar Walton	1982
i	A Beautiful Friendship	The Don Thompson Quartet	1984
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Johnny O'Neal with Dave Young & Terry Clarke	1985	Live
i	Beautiful Friendship	Pete Petersen & The Collection Jazz Orchestra	1985
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Kenny Burrell & Grover Washington Jr.	1985
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Don Doane	1986
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Sphere	1986
i	Beautiful Friendship	The VIP Trio	1988
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Lars Erstrand Quartet with guests: John Högman & Ulf Johansson	1989
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Scott Hamilton	1989
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Spike Robinson / Rob Mullins	1989
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Howard Alden / George Van Eps	1991
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Keith Ingham	1991
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Lars Erstrand Quartet	1991
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Rick Hollander Quartet	May 1993
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra	October 1994
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Geri Allen Trio	1994
i	A Beautiful Friendship	The Great British Jazz Band	1994
i	Beautiful Friendship	Three of a Kind (Dwayne Dolphin, Peter Madsen, Bruce Cox)	1994
i	A Beautiful Friendship	The Gene Harris Quartet	March 1995
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Eric Alexander Sextet	July 1995
i	Beautiful Friendship	Buddy DeFranco Sextet (Buddy DeFranco)	1995	Unverified
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Kazuo Suzuki Quartet	1995	Unverified
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Bob Alberti Trio	1995
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Brian Lemon-Roy Williams Quintet with Warren Vaché	1995
i	Beautiful Friendship	Janusz Muniak	1995
i	Beautiful Friendship	Leonard Hochman	November 1996
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Duke Pearson	1996
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Steve Slagle Quartet	1996
i	Beautiful Friendship	Eliot Zigmund Trio feat. Steve LaSpina (Eliot Zigmund)	1998	Unverified
i	The End of a A Beautiful Friendship	S'us Four	1998	Unverified
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Albert Reifert Trio	1998
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Hendrik Meurkens	1998
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Mike Denny	1998
i	A Beautiful Friendship	The Carl Fontana Quartet	1998
i	A Beautiful Friendship	The Frank Wess Quartet	1998
i	Beautiful Friendship	Carsten Dahl Trio	1999
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Ichiro Masuda Quartet featuring Keiko Nemoto	1999
i	Beautiful Friendship	Joe Farnsworth Sextet	1999
i	Beautiful Friendship	Pastorn & Diffen	1999
i	A Beautiful Friendship	We Three [DE]	March 2000
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Fine Wine Trio	2000
i	Beautiful Friendship	Elise Wood / John Hicks	2000
i	End of a Beautiful Friendship	Irv Williams	2000
i	Beautiful Friendship	John Thulin, Jeff Eckels	2000
i	Beautiful Friendship	Richard Wyands Trio	2000
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Ulf Johansson Werre Quartet	2000
i	Beautiful Friendship	Vladimir Shafranov Trio	2000
i	This Is the End of a Beautiful Friendship	Frans Elsen	2001	Live
i	Beautiful Friendship	Rob Madna	January 2002
i	A Beautiful Friendship	The Drummonds	February 20, 2002
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Mad & Eddie Duran	November 2002
i	Beautiful Friendship	Akira Matsuo	2003
i	Beautiful Friendship	Carsten Dahl	2003
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Charles Davis	2003
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Finn Ziegler	2003
i	A Beautiful Friendship	The Tony Corbiscello Big Band	May 2004
i	A Beautiful Friendship	The Johnny Varro Trio	2004
i	The End of a Beautiful Friendship	Dave Cliff - Phil DeGreg	2004
i	Beautiful Friendship	Jon Mayer Trio	April 26, 2005
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Arisa Kaneko	December 14, 2005	Unverified
i	A Beautiful Friendship	David Ake	2005
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Lenore Raphael	2005
i	Beautiful Friendship	Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson Trio	2006
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Olaf Polziehn Trio	August 2007
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Birgit Lindberg / Anders Färdal Quartet	2007
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Chris Flory	2008
i	Beautiful Friendship	Doug MacDonald	2008
i	A Beautiful Friendship	University Of Memphis Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra	2009	Unverified
i	Beautiful Friendship	Carsten Dahl / Mads Vinding / Alex Riel	2009
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Dan Adler	2010
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Mike Carr / Jim Mullen	2010
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Nick Manson Trio	February 2011
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Monty Alexander Trio	March 16, 2011
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Hod O'Brien Trio	March 2011
i	Beautiful Friendship	Doug Sertl	July 2012
i	Beautiful Friendship	Ares Tavolazzi Trio	2012
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Tom Dempsey / Tim Ferguson Quartet	2012
i	Beautiful Friendship	Yoshiaki Okayasu	February 20, 2013
i	Beautiful Friendship	Steve Kaldestad with Mike LeDonne Trio	June 10, 2014
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Bill Watrous / Pete Christlieb / Carl Saunders / The Gary Urwin Jazz Orchestra	September 2014
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Tarantino / Terefenko (Alexa Tarantino)	2014	Unverified
i	Beautiful Friendship	Jane Potter Trio	2014
i	Beautiful Friendship	The Fred Hughes Trio	2015
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Steve Houghton Trio	September 1, 2016	Unverified
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Massimo Faraò Trio	October 2016
i	Beautiful Friendship	Steve Nelson Jazz Quartet	December 20, 2017
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Elmar Brass Trio	December 2017
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Erik Thormod Halvorsen Sextet	February 2018
i	Beautiful Friendship	Davide Palladin Trio	April 2018
i	Beautiful Friendship	Mike Richmond	September 2018
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Dave Miller Trio	October 2019
i	A Beautiful Friendship	David Finck feat. Tedd Firth & James Saporito	May 12, 2023
i	A Beautiful Friendship	Noah Haidu - Buster Williams - Lewis Nash - Peter Washington - Steve Wilson	June 23, 2023
i	Beautiful Friendship	Borys Janczarski Quartet	December 15, 2023	Unverified

Non siamo più amici written by Gaspare Abbate, Gian Carlo Testoni Italian (not verified yet)

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Non siamo più amici	Anna D'Amico	1958	Unverified

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