List of Versions
The following artists have released or performed versions of the song:
- Damia (1931) as "C'est mon Gigolo" (French version adapted from L. Casucci by A. Mauprey, J. Lenoir)
- Fats Waller
- Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli in Rome (1949)
- Art Tatum
- Sol Hoopii (1928)
- Louis Armstrong March 9 (1931)
- Ted Lewis and His Band (1931)
- Ben Bernie And His Orchestra (1931)
- Bing Crosby with The Gus Arnheim Orchestra (1931) - includes Paris verse.
- Leo Reisman And His Orchestra (1931)
- Jaye P. Morgan (1953)
- Louis Prima (1956)
- Sarah Vaughan (1957)
- Eino Virtanen, a Finnish version called "Kaunis Gigolo" (1958)
- Thelonious Monk (1954, 1958, 1962)
- Gus Backus
- Jean Shepherd (1965) opened the July 29, 1965 episode of his show with the song
- Erroll Garner (1965)
- Oscar Peterson (1970)
- Peter Allen (1974)
- Prima's version was covered by Alex Harvey in 1979 on his The Mafia Stole My Guitar album.
- Village People (1978) The Village People recorded a cover of Prima's version.
- Marlene Dietrich title song of film "Just a Gigolo" (1979)
- Javier Gurruchaga during the film "Besame Tonta" (1981)
- Bob (Rivers) & Zip (1985), with alternate lyrics "Just a Big Ego"
- David Lee Roth (1985) (reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100). The music video for his recording parodies a number of well-known pop-music performers and cultural trends of the first half of the 1980s.
- Tiny Tim (1987) in the record Tip Toe Through the Tulips
- Tony Martin (1985)
- Leningrad Cowboys (1993)
- Tony Slattery (1993) as the closing song for the TV show "Just a Gigolo" in which he also stars.
- In 1997 Max Raabe recorded the song in German in a mock old fashioned version, accompanied by his Palast Orchester
- Amanda Lear utilizes the song in her live repertoire and a 1998 recording can found on the compilation Made of Blood and Honey (reportedly a #1 hit in Hungary, Romania, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Andorra).
- Lou Bega (2001)
- In 2003 Israeli singer and TV star, Gidi Gov, released a Hebrew version of the song, called "Gigolo" on his album Moondance (Hebrew: ריקוד ירח).
- The University of Illinois Marching Illini are also well known for performing the song as part of their post-game show.
- Swedish dansband Ingmar Nordströms recorded a Swedish version of the song, called "Gösta Gigolo". The title is pronounced the same as in English, but refers to a man named Gösta and is hanging around the dance floor in the hotel of a small town.
- Sergio Pángaro & Baccarat (Spanish version, 2003)
- Binghamton Crosbys in the album "Crabs and Tartar Sauce" (2004)
- Tyler Lewis (2006)
- In 2007 Paolo Belli released "Io Sono Un Gigolò", an Italian version of the song.
- Matthieu Boré on the "Sometimes on my own" album (2007).
- Vic Ruggiero of The Slackers and Jesse Wagner of The Aggrolites recorded a ska influenced version live on WNYU 98.1FM Tunnel One Radio on June 19, 2012
- Mina (singer) recorded and released the song on her 2012 album 12 (american song book).
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