Barbara Lea - I'm Coming Virginia (1956).

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"I'm Coming Virginia" is a song composed in 1926 by Donald Heywood with lyrics by Will Marion Cook. It is often wrongly attributed to vocalist Ethel Waters, who first recorded it on September 18, 1926 with Will Marion Cook's Singing Orchestra. Waters is credited with popularizing it. Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, pianist Fats Waller (with Fletcher Henderson) and the Paul Whiteman Orchestra featuring Bing Crosby all recorded it in 1927. The song has become a jazz standard performed by Dixieland musicians.

Ethel Waters first recorded it for Columbia Records on September 18, 1926 and she identified Heywood and Cook as the authors in her autobiography. The following year, Waters first sang it during her Broadway premiere in a production of Africana at Daly's Sixty-third Street Theatre.

After the Waters release, the tune was adopted by numerous Dixieland groups, who increased the tempo. Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke recorded the song in 1927 with Frankie Trumbauer, and it was subsequently widely recorded in the late 1920s and 1930s by artists such as Fats Waller (with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in New York on 11 May 1927), Bing Crosby with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra on April 29, 1927 in one of Crosby's earliest recordings, Django Reinhardt, Artie Shaw, Art Tatum (The Genius of Art Tatum, 1953), Maxine Sullivan, Sidney Bechet, and Louis Armstrong. Teddy Wilson recorded the song in 1937. In 1938, Benny Goodman featured it in his Carnegie Hall concert of that year. Paul Whiteman re-recorded the song, and had a second hit with it in December. In following decades, it was recorded by Erroll Garner, Gene Krupa, Al Cohn, and Steve Lacy. Billie Holiday adopted the tune, and performed it "Chicago style". The song remains a staple of Dixieland musicians.

Jimmy Rushing also recorded "I'm Coming Virginia" with his big band in 1958. In 1974, guitarist Charlie Byrd performed a rendition of the tune at the Concerts by the Sea in Redondo Beach, California, which appeared on his Byrd by the Sea album. Billboard praised the sensitivity and delicate nature of the album recording. Violinist Stephane Grappelli recorded it with George Shearing for their 1976 album The Reunion. In 2000, bassist Michael Moore's trio recorded it for the History of Jazz, Vol. 1 compilation...
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Barbara Lea (April 10, 1929 – December 26, 2011) was an American jazz singer.

Lea was born and raised in Detroit. Her father was a clarinetist before becoming attorney general of Michigan. He changed the family name from LeCocq to Leacock, which she changed to Lea when beginning her singing career. She decided at an early age to become a singer, participating in contests and singing with dance bands. She attended Wellesley College near Boston and studied music theory. She worked at the Storyville club when singer Lee Wiley performed there in the early 1950s. Her debut solo album, Woman in Love, was released in 1955.

She became an actress during the 1960s, then moved to California in the 1970s and received a degree in drama from California State University, Northridge.

In the 1970s, Lea was invited to the National Public Radio series American Popular Song with Alec Wilder and Friends. In 1976, she appeared in two shows, one featuring the songs of Willard Robison and one featuring songs performed and recorded by Lee Wiley.

Lea appeared in the JVC, Kool, and Newport Jazz Festivals several times, but her increasing devotion to the songs as written led to concerts of the works of Rodgers and Hart, Arthur Schwartz, Cy Coleman, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, and the Gershwins, as well as cabaret appearances devoted to Kurt Weill, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, and Yip Harburg.

She died in 2011 from complications of Alzheimer's disease...(Wiki)

https://barbaralea.com/
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Barbara Lea - Barbara Lea with the Johnny Windhurst Quintets (1956).
Tracklist:
1. I'm Coming Virginia (Donald Heywood/Will Marion Cook.).
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Personnel:
1. Barbara Lea - vocals
2. Johnny Windhurst - trumpet, leader
3. Richard Lowman - piano
4. Dick Cary - alto horn
5. Al Hall - bass
6. Osie Johnson - drums.
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Genre: Jazz/Swing
Recorded: at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, N.J.; October 18, 1956.
Label: Prestige – PRLP 7065
Release: 1956 (US)
Format: LP
Cover – Parent
Lacquer Cut By – RVG
Liner Notes – Robert S.Altshuler
Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
Supervised By – Bob Weinstock.