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🎶I’ll Never Smile Again🎶 is a jazz and pop standard written in 1939 by Canadian songwriter Ruth Lowe. Ruth Lowe personally presented the song to Tommy Dorsey. The song is most famous for its 1940 recording by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers. The Pied Pipers consisted of Jo Stafford, John Huddleston, Clark Yocum, & Chuck Lowry.

This recording was made in New York on May 23, 1940.

Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra performed the song in the 1941 Paramount Pictures musical Las Vegas Nights. The Dorsey and Sinatra recording was also released as a V-disc in February, 1946 by the U.S. War Department for the armed forces.
🗝Key Facts🗝
☑Heartbreaking Origin: Ruth Lowe wrote the song as a personal lament following the death of her husband, Harold Cohen, who died during surgery just a year into their marriage.
☑Billboard History: The version by Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra was the first-ever number-one hit on Billboard’s first “National List of Best Selling Retail Records,” where it remained for 12 weeks.
☑Career Launcher: This song is credited with elevating Frank Sinatra to international stardom, becoming his first major hit.
First Performance: While Sinatra made it famous, it was first performed in 1939 by Percy Faith on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio program Music by Faith.
Hall of Fame: The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982 and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The song has been recorded by many other artists since, becoming a jazz and pop standard.