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| name       = Don't Smoke in Bed
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| artist     = [[Nina Simone]]
| album      = [[Little Girl Blue (album)|Little Girl Blue]]
| released   = {{Start date|1958}}
| recorded   = 1957
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| genre      = [[Jazz]]
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| label      = [[Bethlehem Records|Bethlehem]]
| writer     = [[Willard Robison]]
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"'''Don't Smoke in Bed'''" is a jazz song originally composed and recorded by [[Willard Robison]]<ref>John Bush, [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/willard-robison-mn0000693503/biography Willard Robison biography], AllMusic.</ref> and later associated with a recording by [[Nina Simone]] released on her 1958 debut album ''[[Little Girl Blue (album)|Little Girl Blue]]''.<ref>Thom Jurek, [http://www.allmusic.com/album/little-girl-blue-mw0000192853 Review of ''Little Girl Blue''], AllMusic.</ref>

The song had been first recorded by [[Peggy Lee]] in 1947 with [[Dave Barbour]] and His Orchestra and released on her album ''Rendezvous with Peggy Lee'' (1948).<ref name=SSS>[https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/31732/versions "Rendezvous With Peggy Lee by Peggy Lee"] at SecondHandSongs.</ref>  The liner notes to ''Peggy Lee: The Singles Collection'' suggest that the song was mostly written by Lee & Barbour from a few lines by Robison as they were concerned that Robison would not live long enough to finish the song, and wanted to gift him with a valuable copyright to provide for his daughter after his passing.  In the event, Robison lived another 20 years.

Other artists who have recorded the song include [[Corry Brokken]] (''Corry's Bed-Time Story'', 1958), [[Connie Russell]] (''Don't Smoke in Bed'', 1959), [[Julie London]] (''[[Around Midnight]]'', 1960), [[Rod McKuen]] (''Stranger in Town'', 1961), [[Jack Teagarden]] (''Think Well of Me '', 1962), [[Teresa Brewer]] (''Moments to Remember'', 1964), [[Mary Coughlan (singer)|Mary Coughlan]] (''[[Under the Influence (Mary Coughlan album)|Under the Influence]]'', 1987), [[Elkie Brooks]] (''[[Round Midnight (Elkie Brooks album)|Round Midnight]]'', 1993), [[Holly Cole]] (''[[Don't Smoke in Bed]]'', 1993), [[Patti Smith]] (''Ain't Nuthin' But a She Thing'', 1995), [[Carly Simon]] (''[[Film Noir (album)|Film Noir]]'', 1997), [[k.d. lang]] (''[[Drag (k.d. lang album)|Drag]]'', 1997), [[Janet Seidel]] (''Don't Smoke in Bed - Songs in the Key of Peggy Lee'', 2002), [[Rita Coolidge]] (''And So Is Love '', 2005), and [[Xiu Xiu]] (''[[Nina (Xiu Xiu album)|Nina]]'', 2013), Coppe' feat. Nikakoi
From the Album Milk, produced by Nikakoi
October 6, 2017.<ref>[https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/31732/versions#nav-entity "Don't Smoke in Bed" versions], SecondHandSongs.</ref>
In 2017 [[Marlene Dietrich]]'s version from her Warsaw concerts was released by Polskie Radio on CD and digital download.
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[[Category:Songs about tobacco]]
[[Category:Jazz songs]]
[[Category:Nina Simone songs]]
[[Category:American songs]]
[[Category:Year of song missing]]
[[Category:Songs with music by Willard Robison]]


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