Never Let Me Go is a classic jazz ballad written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for the 1956 Paramount film The Scarlet Hour. In the movie, Nat King Cole performs the song in a nightclub scene, and it was released on the The Scarlet Hour soundtrack in 1956 with arrangements by Nelson Riddle. Since then it has become a standard, covered by many artists including Dinah Washington, Cleo Laine, Nancy Wilson, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Wynton Marsalis, and the Roy Hargrove Quintet. The tune is typically performed as a slow jazz ballad and is commonly played in Bb major by instrumentalists.
