MEAN TO ME
(Roy Turk / Fred E. Ahlert)

Ruth Etting - 1929
Helen Morgan - 1929
Annette Hanshaw - 1929
The Dorsey Brothers Orch. - 1929
Alfredo & His Band - 1929
Valaida Snow - 1937
Teddy Wilson & His Orch. (vocal: Billie Holiday) - 1937
Billy Eckstine - 1945
Etta Jones - 1946
Stan Kenton & His Orch. (vocal: June Christy & The Kentones) - 1946
Woody Herman & His Orch. - 1946
Sarah Vaughan - 1947
Frank Sinatra - 1947
Louis Prima - 1950
Sarah Vaughan (re-recording) - 1950
Erroll Garner (Instr.) - 1951
Doris Day (feat. in the film "Love Me Or Leave Me") - 1955
Julie London (with Al Viola) - 1956
Mary Ann McCall - 1957
Rosemary Clooney - 1960
Dean Martin - 1960
Helen Humes - 1960
Betty Carter - 1960
Ray Charles - 1960
Ella Fitzgerald (with Nelson Riddle & His Orch.) - 1962
Count Basie & Sarah Vaughan - 1962
Ella Fitzgeral & Oscar Peterson - 1974
Rosemary Clooney - 1978 (re-recording)
Carmen McRae - 1986

Also recorded by:
Joanie Summers; Debbie Reynolds; Big Maybelle; Ruby Braff;
Diana Ross; Linda Ronstadt (with Nelson Riddle & His Orch);
Sonny Stitt; Marlene Dietrich; Benny Goodman; Lester Young;
Art Tatum; Charlie Spivak; Jack Jones......and many others.



Sweetheart I love you, think the world of you
But I'm afraid you don't care for me
You never show it, don't let me know it
Why do you act like you do

You're mean to me
Why must you be mean to me
Gee, honey it seems to me
You love to see me cryin'

I don't know why I stay home
Each night when you say you'll phone
You don't and I'm left alone
Singin' the blues and sighin'

You treat me coldly each day in the year
You always scold me whenever somebody is near, Dear

It must be
Great fun to be mean to me
You shouldn't, for can't you see
What you mean to me