"It Never Entered My Mind" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher (1940), where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Never_Entered_My_Mind
As good as Miles does it. There are similarities--the clarity of instrumental phrasing; but there are differences too--the emotional coolness, like Davis's version, but its Baker's coolness with emotion seething beneath the surface chopping away at a frontal iciness this piece too often presents. Its bluesy but not defeatist or weepy. Its all Chet & his Quartet.
Chet Baker Quartet - It Never Entered My Mind (1958)
Personnel: Chet Baker (trumpet), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Paul Chambers (bass), Connie Kay (drums)
from the album 'CHET'
***EXTRA ADDED BONUS***
Jane Monheit one of my favorite cabaret torch-song chanteuses:
It Never Entered My Mind
I don't care if there's powder on my nose
I don't care if my hairdo is in place
I've lost the very meaning of repose
I never put a mudpack on my face
Oh, who'd have thought that I'd walk in a daze now
I never go to show at night, but just to matinees now
I see the show, and home I go...
Once I laughed when I heard you saying
That I'd be playing solitaire
Uneasy in my easy chair
It never entered my mind
Once you told me that I was mistaken
That I'd awaken with the sun
And order orange juice for one
It never entered my mind
You have what I lack myself
And now I even have to scratch my back myself
Once you warned me that if you scorned me
I'd sing the maiden's prayer again
And wish that you were there again
To get into my hair again
It never entered my mind
--song written by Rodgers and Hart
