Carmen McRae, Sarah: Dedicated to You (1990).Richard 'Groove' Holmes, Soul Message (1965).Lesley Gore, I'll Cry If I Want To (1963).Garner re-recorded the song with an orchestral arrangement by Mitch Miller for his album Other Voices (1957) His original version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1991. Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1961 for use on his radio show, and it was included on the album With All My Heart (2012).Count Basie, Dance Along with Basie (1959).This version peaked at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number two in the United Kingdom. His version won a Grammy in the category of Music Arrangement of the Year. Stevens recounted that the song was recorded on the second take when experimenting in the studio. It is the title track of his twelfth studio album.

In 1975, singer Ray Stevens released an up-tempo country rendition of this song. Eastwood, a fan of Mathis, ended up paying a nominal fee for the Garner recording in his film. Chart performance Weekly singles Chart (1959–60)Īlthough there were already several released versions, the Mathis version inspired Clint Eastwood to use the instrumental in his 1971 film Play Misty for Me, a low-budget film that proved to be a box-office success. Accounts differ as to whether Garner or Garner's business manager, Martha Glaser, was in attendance when Mathis later recorded the song. Mathis heard Garner play the song, and told him that he would love to sing it if Garner had lyrics for it. Erroll Garner was inspired to write 'Misty' on a flight from San Francisco to Chicago which passed through a thunderstorm: as the plane descended into O'Hare, Garner looked through the window to see a rainbow glowing through a haze, and was moved to begin composing 'Misty' on the spot, striking imaginary piano keys on his knees as he hummed the notes he imagined (causing his neighboring passenger to summon a flight attendant to assist the apparently ill Garner).

Misty and then there was you