I Thought About You

PROFILE
Composer	Jimmy Van Heusen
Lyricist	Johnny Mercer
Year Written	1939
About I Thought About You
In the biography Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer, author Gene Lees quotes Mercer about this song: “I can remember the afternoon that we wrote it. He [Van Heusen] played me the melody. I didn’t have any idea, but I had to go to Chicago that night. I think I was on the Benny Goodman program. And I got to thinking about it on the train. I was awake, I couldn’t sleep. The tune was running through my mind, and that’s when I wrote the song. On the train, really going to Chicago.” “I Thought About You” proved quite popular and has been recorded many times by jazz performers including Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Hartman, Shirley Horn, Dinah Washington and Mel Tormé.

Lyrics

I took a trip on a train
And I thought about you
I passed a shadowy lane
And I thought about you

Two or three cars parked under the stars
Winding stream
Moon shining down on some little town
And with each beam, the same old dream

And every stop that we made
Oh, I thought about you
And when I pulled down the shade
Then I really felt blue

I peeped through the crack
Looked at the track
Oh I’m going back to you
And what did I do? I thought about you

There were two or three cars parked under the stars
Winding stream
Moon shining down on some little town
And with each beam, the same old dream

And then I peeped through the crack
And looked at the track
Oh I’m going back to you
And what did I do? I thought about you

“I Thought About You” was recorded in June 1992 and was released that year on Perfectly Frank. It was arranged by Ralph Sharon.

I Thought About You
Listen to I Thought About You on Spotify. Tony Bennett · Song · 1992.

This recording released on:

1992: Columbia CD: CK 52965 — Perfectly Frank
1992: CBS/Sony CD: SRCS-6565 — Perfectly Frank [Japan
2011: Disc #58 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK57) Perfectly Frank