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this blog may turn out just to be a place where I can list some of my favorite things -
like my favorite songs (mid-century pop standards):
1) As Long As I Live (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
Very few songs discuss the relative merits of wearing long underwear, as this one does. Anita O'Day does this justice as few can. She sings every song as though slightly tipsy (as opposed to full-on plastered like Billie Holliday).
2) The Folks Who Live on the Hill (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein)
My fantasy - Jo Stafford sings this beautfilly.
3) Have You Got Any Castles, Baby? (Richard Whiting/Johnny Mercer)
Margaret Whiting does justice to Johnny Mercer's lyric and her father's tune.
4)I Can't Get Started (Vernon Duke/Ira Gershwin)
I LOVE songs that read like novels! This rather Hemingwayesque adventure finds the narrator squelching revolutions and charting the North Pole among other exploits.
Lady Day does my favorite of about a million versions out there.
5) It Never Entered My Mind (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)
Sarah Vaughn gives a delicious spin to my favorite lyric, turning "get into my hair again" into a double entendre.
6) Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn)
...And this one reads like a short story by Fitzgerald. Simply the greatest song ever.
7) Midnight Sun (Sonny Burke/Lionel Hampton/Johnny Mercer)
Definitely in the top 10 of the most romantic songs of the century. I think Jo Stafford does this best, but June Christy isn't bad either.
8) The Way You Look Tonight (Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields)
Another ultra-romantic lyric. I love the way Fred Astaire gives this such a wistful rendition. What an underrated singer he was!
9) When the World Was Young (Philippe Bloch/Angele Vannier/Johnny Mercer)
I like to listen to Blossom Dearie's version of this on "Needlepoint Magic."
10) You Go to My Head (J. Fred Coots/Haven Gillespie)
A great song about the pleasures of dissipation.
like my favorite songs (mid-century pop standards):
1) As Long As I Live (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
Very few songs discuss the relative merits of wearing long underwear, as this one does. Anita O'Day does this justice as few can. She sings every song as though slightly tipsy (as opposed to full-on plastered like Billie Holliday).
2) The Folks Who Live on the Hill (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein)
My fantasy - Jo Stafford sings this beautfilly.
3) Have You Got Any Castles, Baby? (Richard Whiting/Johnny Mercer)
Margaret Whiting does justice to Johnny Mercer's lyric and her father's tune.
4)I Can't Get Started (Vernon Duke/Ira Gershwin)
I LOVE songs that read like novels! This rather Hemingwayesque adventure finds the narrator squelching revolutions and charting the North Pole among other exploits.
Lady Day does my favorite of about a million versions out there.
5) It Never Entered My Mind (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)
Sarah Vaughn gives a delicious spin to my favorite lyric, turning "get into my hair again" into a double entendre.
6) Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn)
...And this one reads like a short story by Fitzgerald. Simply the greatest song ever.
7) Midnight Sun (Sonny Burke/Lionel Hampton/Johnny Mercer)
Definitely in the top 10 of the most romantic songs of the century. I think Jo Stafford does this best, but June Christy isn't bad either.
8) The Way You Look Tonight (Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields)
Another ultra-romantic lyric. I love the way Fred Astaire gives this such a wistful rendition. What an underrated singer he was!
9) When the World Was Young (Philippe Bloch/Angele Vannier/Johnny Mercer)
I like to listen to Blossom Dearie's version of this on "Needlepoint Magic."
10) You Go to My Head (J. Fred Coots/Haven Gillespie)
A great song about the pleasures of dissipation.
posted by Helene H. at 6:12 PM
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