Blues in the Night [My Mama Done Tol' Me] - Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson

Blues in the Night [My Mama Done Tol' Me] - Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson "Blues in the Night" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues in the Night. The song is sung in the film by William Gillespie.

Composer Alec Wilder said of this song, "'Blues in the Night' is certainly a landmark in the evolution of American popular music, lyrically as well as musically."