"Ill Wind" (also titled "You're Blowin' Me No Good") is a 1934 song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler. It was written for Cotton Club Parade, the 1934 Cotton Club show by Arlen and Koehler, in which Adelaide Hall sang it. Hall recalled that this production was the first Cotton Club show to use nitrogen smoke rising from the stage floor. According to an account of the song's origin, the melody came to Arlen while he visited Anya Taranda, later his wife.
Arlen recorded the song himself, with piano accompaniment by Arthur Schutt, on 6 February 1934, and the recording was released as a single in March of that year. Later versions include those by Maxine Sullivan (1939), Lena Horne (1942), Frank Sinatra on In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Dinah Washington (1956), Billie Holiday (1959), Sarah Vaughan (1961), Lee Morgan (1967) and Audra McDonald (2002). The song is also heard in Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 film The Cotton Club. It is a pop standard that became a jazz standard.
