Send in the Clowns is an American song by Glynis Johns , written and composed by Stephen Sondheim , from the musical A Little Night Music , and released in 1973 . Immediately taken up by Frank Sinatra , Cleo Laine , Bobby Short then by George Shearing , Jean Simmons and Shirley Bassey , it is re-recorded by Glynis Johns in 1975 and received theGrammy Award for Song of the Year . Send in the Clowns has since become a standard .
Awards
- 1976 : Grammy Award for the song of the year for Glynis Johns (shared with Stephen Sondheim ).
Versions
Registered in English (unless otherwise stated) by 1 , 2 :
- Karen Akers
- Lorez Alexandria
- Chris Anderson (instrumental)
- Ernestine Anderson
- John Arpin (instrumental)
- Michael Ball
- Count Basie (instrumental)
- Shirley Bassey
- Acker Bilk
- Robert Bonfiglio (instrumental)
- Teresa Brewer
- Brotherhood of Man
- Betty Buckley
- Roy Budd (instrumental)
- Ann Burton
- José Carreras
- Barbara Carroll (instrumental)
- Oscar Castro-Neves (instrumental)
- Dori Caymmi (instrumental)
- Rosemary Clooney
- Glenn Close
- Judy Collins
- Perry Como
- Sumi Jo
- Ray Conniff
- Barbara Cook
- Gemma Craven
- Peter Criss
- Bing Crosby
- Judi Dench
- Vic Damone
- Anita Dobson
- Placido Domingo
- Percy Faith (instrumental)
- Ferrante & Teicher
- Bryan Ferry
- Manfredo Fest (instrumental)
- Maureen Forrester
- James Galway (instrumental)
- Stan Getz (instrumental)
- Benny Goodman (instrumental)
- Eydie Gormé
- Ted Greene (instrumental)
- Lani Hall
- Roland Hanna (instrumental)
- Hagood Hardy (instrumental)
- Johnny Hartman (instrumental)
- Richard Hayman (instrumental)
- Los Indios Tabajaras (instrumental)
- Milt Jackson (instrumental)
- Grace Jones
- Tom Jones
- Patricia Kaas (in French: “Get clowns in”)
- Howard Keel
- Stan Kenton (instrumental)
- André Kostelanetz (instrumental)
- Krusty the clown ( Dan Castellaneta in The Simpsons )
- Patti LaBelle
- Cleo Wool
- Frankie Laine
- Angela Lansbury
- Zarah Leander (in German : Wo sind die clowns? )
- Evelyn Lear
- Liberace
- Anni-Frid Lyngstad (in Swedish : Var är min clown? )
- Carmen McRae
- Barry Manilow
- Millicent Martin
- Pat Martino (instrumental)
- Johnny Mathis
- Mabel Mercer
- Van Morrison with Chet Baker
- Olivia Newton-John
- Elaine Paige
- Emile Pandolfi
- Mandy Patinkin
- Frank Patterson
- Vicky Peña
- Jill Perryman
- Siân Phillips
- Marina Prior
- Lou Rawls
- Eric Reed (instrumental)
- Dianne Reeves
- André Rieu (instrumental)
- Kenny Rogers
- Renato Russo
- Helen Schneider
- George Shearing (instrumental)
- Bobby Short
- Jean Simmons
- Zoot Sims (instrumental)
- Frank Sinatra
- Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber (instrumental)
- Terell Stafford (instrumental)
- Barbra Streisand
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Tiger Lillies
- Mel Tormé (instrumental)
- Sarah Vaughan
- John Williams (instrumental)
- Julie Wilson
- Gheorghe Zamfir (instrumental)
- Susan Boyle
Notes and references
- ( In ) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled ” Send in the Clowns ” ( see the list of authors ) .
- ↑ ( in ) ” Send in the Clowns ” [ archive ] , on allmusic.com , All Music (accessed on 1 st December 2009 )
- ↑ ( in ) ” Send in the Clowns ” [ archive ] on Billboard (accessed on 1 st December 2009 )