Barry Manilow included Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) on his Grammy-nominated album “Manilow Sings Sinatra” (1998). Other cover versions were recorded by Perry Como, Gisele MacKenzie (1950, for radio broadcast), vocal group The Hi-Lo’s (1955), cornetist Bobby Hackett, The Nelson Riddle Orchestra (1958), Roy Hamilton (1960), the Ray Charles Singers (1966), The Singers Unlimited (1976), the Don Lanphere Quintet (1985), Eileen Farrell in an arrangement by Canada’s Robert Farnon (1991), Ranee Lee (2003), John McDermott (2006), Hit Co. Big Band (2013), and others.
The song was used in the 1962 Stanley Kubrick film titled, “Lolita,” and in the film “Inside Moves” (1980).

Almost three-quarters of a century after its first appearance, Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) still has lasting appeal.

Toronto-born Ruth Lowe (12 August 1914 – 4 January 1981) was a songwriter and pianist. As a teenager, Lowe spent her days playing the piano in Toronto music stores to promote the sale of sheet music. In the evenings, she accompanied singers in Toronto nightclubs, performed in a two-piano act with Sair Lee, and sang as part of a girl trio called the Shadows on CKNC. In 1936, 21-year old Lowe was working in the Song Shop in Toronto when Ina Rae Hutton’s all-girl band, the Melodears, came to town and suddenly found themselves in need of a last-minute substitute for an ailing pianist. Lowe got the gig and began touring the US with the band. After her second Sinatra hit, Lowe devoted herself to raising her family in Toronto, and played the piano often although not in public. She was featured in an episode of the NBC television show “This Is Your Life” on November 10, 1954, and her story was chronicled in the video documentary “I’ll Never Smile Again: The Ruth Lowe Story” (Great North Productions Inc., 2001) and broadcast as part of the television series “The Canadians”.

Paul Mann (3 September 1910 – 27 May 1983) was born in Vienna, Austria. He was a film composer in Berlin and moved to the USA around 1938. Stephan Weiss (17 August 1899, Vienna –13 August 1984, Zurich) arrived in the US around the same time. Both contributed songs to the hit Broadway revue “Hellzapoppin,” which ran from 1938 to 1941.