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"Close Your Eyes"
Song
Published	1933
Songwriter(s)	Bernice Petkere

"Close Your Eyes" is a popular song written by American composer Bernice Petkere. The song was published in 1933 and first recorded that year by Freddy Martin & His Orchestra.^[1]

Recorded versions

Ruth Etting (1933)
Al Bowlly (1933)
Comedian Harmonists (1934), German version (as "Komm im Traum")
Johnny Bode (1934), Swedish version
Harry Belafonte (1949)
Tony Bennett (1954)
Humphrey Lyttelton (1956)
Ella Fitzgerald (1957)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1959 [2020]) Just Coolin' album
Oscar Peterson (1959)
Gene Ammons (1960) Boss Tenor album
Vic Damone (1962) Linger Awhile With Vic Damone
Michel Legrand (1962) Bravissimo album
Doris Day (1957) Day By Night, and Duet (1962)
Peggy Lee (1963)
Nancy Wilson (1964)
Herb Ellis & Remo Palmier (1978) Windflower album
Toni Tennille (1988) Do It Again album
Kurt Elling (1995)
Liza Minnelli (1996)
Betty Carter (1996)
Stacey Kent (1997) Close Your Eyes album
Don Tiki (1997)
Queen Latifah (2004)
Terez Montcalm (2007)
Loston Harris (2008)
Nellie McKay (2009)
Roy Hargrove (2007 [2010]) Live at the New Morning DVD release
Alexis Cole (2013)
Liv Stoveland (2010)
Leonardo Zurita (2021)

In popular culture

The song is featured in the film The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), during a murder scene, and in the 1996 BBC TV detective series The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, which starred Diana Rigg. The song was the end of transmission tune of Radio MonteCarlo in the 1960s.

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