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"Cry Me A River"
Written by Arthur Hamilton
Published 1953
Recorded by Julie London
Ella Fitzgerald
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"Cry Me a River" is a popular American torch song, written by Arthur Hamilton and first published in 1953.

A jazzy blues ballad, "Cry Me a River" was originally written for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the 1920s-set film, Pete Kelly's Blues (released 1955) but the song was dropped. Fitzgerald first released a recording of the song on Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! in 1961.

The song's first release and most famous recording was by actress/singer Julie London in 1955. A sultry performance of the song by London in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It helped to make it a million-selling blockbuster (#9 US/#22 UK).

In 1970, British blues rocker Joe Cocker made the chart with an upbeat hard-rock rendition on the album, Mad Dogs and Englishmen. In 1995, British actress Denise Welch's double A-side "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" / "Cry Me a River" spent three weeks in the UK Singles Chart, reaching #23. In 2009, Canadian singer Michael Bublé entered the charts with a big-band jazz version, which is also the opening track of his fourth album Crazy Love. This adaption of the song was used in the BBC's advertising for, and theme music for coverage of, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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Cry Me a River (film)

Cry Me a River (河上的爱情 Heshang de aiqing, literally "love on the river") is a 2008 short film directed by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film is a romance recounting the reunion of four college friends and lovers after ten years. The leads are played by Jia regulars Zhao Tao and Wang Hongwei, and Hao Lei and Guo Xiaodong, who starred together in Lou Ye's 2006 film Summer Palace. Jia has stated that he was inspired by the classic Chinese film Spring in a Small Town, also about the reuniting of former lovers in a rural river town in eastern China.

The film was produced by Jia's own Xstream Pictures.

Release

The film premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival out-of-competition as one of two Chinese films in the lineup (Yu Lik-wai's Plastic City was the other). The short film also screened with Jia's feature length 24 City as a companion piece at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2008.

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    Cry Me a River (disambiguation)

    "Cry Me a River" is a 1953 popular song written by Arthur Hamilton and recorded by various artists.

    Cry Me a River may also refer to:

    Books and theatre

  • Cry Me a River (play), a 1997 revised version of Joyce Carol Oates's 1991 play Black
  • Cry Me a River, a 1993 novel by T. R. Pearson

    • Film and TV

  • Cry Me a River (film), a 2008 short film directed by Jia Zhangke

    • Music

  • "Cry Me a River" (Justin Timberlake song), a 2002 single by American singer Justin Timberlake
  • "Cry Me a River", a song by Pride and Glory from Pride and Glory


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    Cry Me a River

    by: Ella Fitzgerald

    Now you say you're lonely
    you cry the long night through
    well, you can cry me a river
    cry me a river
    i cried a river over you
    now you say you're sorry
    for being so untrue
    well, you can cry me a river
    cry me a river
    i cried a river over you
    you drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head
    while you never shed a tear
    remember, i remember, all that you said?
    you told me love was too plebeian
    told me you were through with me and
    Now you say you love me
    well, just to prove that you do
    come on and cry me a river
    cry me a river
    i cried a river over you
    i cried a river over you
    i cried a river... over you...
    You drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head
    while you never shed a tear
    remember, i remember, all that you said?
    you told me love was too plebeian
    told me you were through with me and
    Now you say you love me
    well, just to prove that you do
    come on and cry, cry, cry me a river
    cry me a river
    i cried, i cried, i cried a river over you
    if my pillow talk, imagine what it would have said
    could it be a river of tears i cried instead?
    well you can cry me a river
    go ahead and cry me a river
    'cause i cried, i cried a river over you




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