"Never Let Me Go" is a 1956 song with music by Jay Livingston and lyrics by Ray Evans. The original recording was made by Nat "King" Cole with the Music of Nelson Riddle on 4 January 1956, and it was first released as the single "Too Young to Go Steady" later that year. It is a jazz standard associated with the ballad style, and its vocal versions use English lyrics. Among the singers who have recorded it are Dinah Washington, Nancy Wilson, Johnny Mathis, Carmen McRae, Liza Minnelli, Stacey Kent and Michael Feinstein. Instrumental versions include recordings by Max Roach, Bill Evans, Woody Herman and Wynton Marsalis. Singers and instrumentalists have both recorded it, so the song exists in vocal and instrumental form alike.
