"We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)"

Single by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra

"Tell Me at Midnight"

Released

1940

Label

RCA Victor

Songwriter(s)

Nelson Cogane, Sammy Mysels and Dick Robertson

Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra singles chronology

"Looking for Yesterday"
(1940)

"We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)"
(1940)

"You're Breaking My Heart All Over Again"
(1940)

"We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" is a ballad published in 1939 by Nelson Cogane (né Nelson Cogane Fonarow; 1902–1985), Sammy Mysels and Dick Robertson.^[1] It was a hit song in 1940 for both The Ink Spots on Decca and Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra on RCA Victor, both versions reaching No. 3 in Billboard in December.

Cover versions

The Ink Spots version was recorded in July 1940 and released on Decca in October (b/w "My Greatest Mistake").^[2]
Dolores O'Neill recorded "We Three" with the Bob Chester Orchestra on 14 August 1940 in New York City
Ella Fitzgerald, who would later record with The Ink Spots, also recorded the song for Decca in 1940; it is included on the 2003 CD compilation Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1.
Brenda Lee recorded "We Three" for her 1960 Decca album This Is...Brenda.
Bob Dylan has performed the song in concert three times, twice in 1986 and once in 1988.^[3]
Country singer Wayne Hancock covered "We Three" on his 2001 album A-Town Blues.
Paul McCartney included the song on his 2012 album of American standards, Kisses On The Bottom with Canadian pianist and singer Diana Krall.

Use in pop culture

The Ink Spots version of the song was featured in the opening scene of "Smoke", the first episode of season 4 of Better Call Saul, depicting "Gene" living in Omaha, Nebraska after the events of Breaking Bad.

The Ink Spots version of the song has been used for three video games: the 2010 BioShock 2, the 2018 Fallout 76 on the in-game Appalachia Radio, and the 2019 Man of Medan.

The Ink Spots version of the song was featured in episode 6 of Watchmen.

The Ink Spots version of the song was used in episode 1, season 2 of The Blacklist.

The Ink Spots version was also used in the final moments of the first season of Fallout.

References

^ William H. Young, Nancy K. Young Music of the Great Depression 2005 p.64 "Sinatra/ Dorsey also appeared on the charts at #34 with "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)" (words and .."
^ "Discography". Archived from the original on 2014-12-02. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
^ "Bob Dylan: Setlists". Retrieved March 17, 2016.

v t e Tommy Dorsey
Studio albums	The One and Only Tommy Dorsey (1961) Tommy Dorsey's Dance Party (1966) Tommy Dorsey (1937–1941) (1976) Yes Indeed! (1990)
Compilation albums	Up Swing (1944) Smoke Rings (1944) Starmaker (1944) The Dorsey/Sinatra Sessions (1982) Music Goes Round and Round (1991) Stop, Look and Listen (1994) This Is Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Vol. 1 (2001) It's D'Lovely 1947–1950 (2004)
Songs	"Boogie Woogie" "Dolores" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "For Sentimental Reasons" "The Hucklebuck" "I Can Dream, Can't I?" "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Never Smile Again" "Imagination" "In the Blue of Evening" "In the Middle of a Dream" "Indian Summer" "It's Always You" "Just as Though You Were Here" "Let's Get Away from It All" "The Morning After" "Oh! Look at Me Now" "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" "Once in a While" "Only Forever" "Our Love Affair" "Sleep" "Stardust" "Take Me" "There Are Such Things" "This Is No Dream" "This Love of Mine" "To You" "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" "Yes, Indeed!" "You Taught Me to Love Again"
The Dorsey Brothers	"Annie's Cousin Fannie" "Tomorrow's Another Day" "Harlem Chapel Chimes" "Dese Dem Dose"
Related articles	Jimmy Dorsey The Fabulous Dorseys Getting Sentimental over Tommy Dorsey I Remember Tommy

v t e Frank Sinatra singles
Discography
Columbia singles (1939–1940)	"It's Funny to Everyone but Me" "On a Little Street in Singapore" "Ciribiribin" "All or Nothing at All"
RCA Victor singles (1940–1942)	"Imagination" "I'll Be Seeing You" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "I'll Never Smile Again" "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" "Our Love Affair" "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" "Stardust" "Dolores" "It's Always You" "Oh! Look at Me Now" "Without a Song" "Let's Get Away from It All" "This Love of Mine" "Blue Skies" "Pale Moon (An Indian Love Song)" "Embraceable You" "Just as Though You Were Here" "Take Me" "In the Blue of Evening" "How About You?" "There Are Such Things"
Bluebird singles (1942–1943)	"Night and Day" "The Night We Called It a Day" "The Song Is You"
Columbia singles (1943–1953)	"Close to You" "You'll Never Know" "Sunday, Monday, or Always" "People Will Say We're in Love" "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" "White Christmas" "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "Ol' Man River" "Stormy Weather" "When Your Lover Has Gone" "Dream" "If I Loved You" "You'll Never Walk Alone" "Mighty Lak' a Rose" "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)" "America the Beautiful" "Day by Day" "Full Moon and Empty Arms" "Soliloquy (Part 1 & 2)" "Begin the Beguine" "Silent Night" "Adeste Fideles" "Jingle Bells" "Oh! What It Seemed to Be" "September Song" "Five Minutes More" "Sweet Lorraine" "Time after Time" "Mam'selle" "Almost Like Being in Love" "Tea for Two" "My Romance" "So Far" "A Fellow Needs a Girl" "But Beautiful" "I've Got a Crush on You" "All of Me" "Nature Boy" "Everybody Loves Somebody" "My Melancholy Baby" "Autumn in New York" "Why Can't You Behave?" "Some Enchanted Evening" "Bali Ha'i" "Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk" "I Only Have Eyes for You" "The Old Master Painter" "Peachtree Street" "Goodnight, Irene" "Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)" "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" "We Kiss in a Shadow" "April in Paris" "I Could Write a Book" "The Birth of the Blues"
Capitol singles (1953–1961)	"I'm Walking Behind You" "I've Got the World on a String" "My One and Only Love" "South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)" "I Love You" "Young at Heart" "Don't Worry 'bout Me" "Three Coins in the Fountain" "The Gal That Got Away" "Someone to Watch Over Me" "Melody of Love" "Learnin' the Blues" "Love and Marriage" "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" "You're Sensational" "True Love" "Well, Did You Evah!" "Mind If I Make Love to You?" "Hey! Jealous Lover" "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" "All the Way" "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" "Witchcraft" "Mistletoe and Holly" "French Foreign Legion" "High Hopes" "Old MacDonald" "My Blue Heaven" "I'll Remember April" "I Love Paris"
Reprise singles (1961–1983)	"Granada" "I'll Be Seeing You" "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" "Without a Song" "Stardust" "Come Rain or Come Shine" "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" "Me and My Shadow" "Call Me Irresponsible" "I Have Dreamed" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "My Kind of Town" "Softly, as I Leave You" "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" "The Little Drummer Boy" "It Was a Very Good Year" "Strangers in the Night" "Summer Wind" "You Make Me Feel So Young" "That's Life" "The September of My Years" "Somethin' Stupid" "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" "My Way of Life" "My Way" "Goin' Out of My Head" "Something" "Bein' Green" "Send In the Clowns" "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" "Theme from New York, New York" "Here's to the Band" "To Love a Child"
Qwest singles (1983–1984)	"Teach Me Tonight" "Mack the Knife" "It's All Right with Me" "Until the Real Thing Comes Along"
Compositions	"This Love of Mine" "Sheila" "Peachtree Street" "Take My Love" "I'm a Fool to Want You" "Mistletoe and Holly" "Mr. Success"
Category

v t e The Ink Spots
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Singles	"If I Didn't Care" "My Prayer" "Memories of You" "I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You" "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" "Whispering Grass (Don't Tell the Trees)" "Maybe" "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" "Java Jive" "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" "I Can't Stand Losing You" "Cow Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)" "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" "I'm Making Believe" "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" "I'm Beginning to See the Light" "The Gypsy" "Prisoner of Love" "To Each His Own" "The Best Things in Life Are Free" "You're Breaking My Heart" "Echoes" "If" "It Is No Secret" (Bill Kenny solo) "Trying" "Address Unknown"
Albums	If I Didn't Care (1979)
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