Monday, April 07, 2008





You Must Believe In Spring
music by Michel Legrand (above)
lyric by Jacques Demy (top)
English lyric by Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman (middle)


Artist: Bill Evans
Album: You Must Believe In Spring



You're A Sweetheart

music by Jimmy McHugh (left)

lyric by Harold Adamson (right)


Album: B.G. In Hi-Fi


Album: Chick Webb And His Orchestra-1937


Sunday, April 06, 2008


You Do

music by Josef Myrow

lyric by Mack Gordon (above)
Album: Capitol Collectors Series



You Grow Sweeter As Years Go By

music and lyric by Johnny Mercer

Album: Too Marvelous For Words

You Keep Coming Back Like A Song

music and lyric by Irving Berlin
Album: A New York Singer



You Are For Loving

music by Hugh Martin (above)

lyric by Ralph Blane (top)
Album: You'd Better Love Me

You Are Always In My Heart
(Siempre En Mi Corazon)

music by Ernesto Lecuona (above)

lyric by Kim Gannon
Artist: Sylvia Syms
Album: Sylvia Is!

You're The One

music and lyric by Billy Strayhorn
Artist: Lena Horne
Album: We'll Be Together Again


You're Nearer

music by Richard Rodgers (left)

lyric by Lorenz Hart (right)
Artist: Shirley Horn
Album: Here's To Life

Saturday, April 05, 2008





When A Woman Loves A Man


lyric by Johnny Mercer (top)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Album: Trav'lin' Light

Waiter, Make Mine Blues

music by Ray Biondi

lyric by Anita O'Day (top)[aka Anita Belle Colton]
Artist: Anita O'Day
Album: Verve Jazz Masters 49


When Love Comes Your Way

music and lyric by Cole Porter
Artist: Mabel Mercer
Album: Mabel Mercer Sings Cole Porter

Where Oh Where

music and lyric by Cole Porter
Artist: Mabel Mercer
Album: Mabel Mercer Sings Cole Porter



While We're Young

music by Alec Wilder (above) & Morty Palitz

lyric by Bill Engvick

Artist:
Dick Haymes
Album: Keep It Simple
Album: You'd Better Love Me
Album: Marian McPartland Plays The Music Of Alec Wilder



Wishing (Will Make It So)


music and lyric by B.G. "Buddy" DeSylva

Artist: Dick Haymes

Album: Imagination

Friday, April 04, 2008







The Continental

music by Con Conrad (top)

lyric by Herb Magidson (above)

Album: The Columbia Years Complete Recordings 1943-1952, Vol. 11
Artist: Tommy Dorsey
Album: The Jazz Collector Edition, Vol. 1
Album: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings Of The Oscar Peterson Trio 1951-53, disc 6



That Lucky Old Sun

music by Beasley Smith (above)

lyric by Haven Gillespie (top)
Album: The Columbia Years 1943-1952 Complete Recordings, Vol. 10
The Hucklebuck

music by Andy Gibson

lyric by Roy Alfred


Album: The Columbia Years Complete Recordings 1943-1952, Vol. 9
Album: Undercurrent Blues
Artist: Quincy Jones
Album: ABC/Mercury Big Band Jazz Sessions, Disc 2

Thursday, April 03, 2008



The Right Girl For Me

music by Roger Edens (above)

lyric by Betty Comden & Adolph Green (top)
Album: The Columbia Years 1943-1952 Complete Recordings, Vol. 9



To You

music by Tommy Dorsey (above) & Ted Shapiro (top: standing l-r: Ted Shapiro, Dorothy Johnson, Archie Loveland; foreground: Sophie Tucker)

lyric by Benny Davis

Artist: Glenn Miller
Album: The Original Recordings By Glenn Miller & His Orchestra

The Spirit Is Willing

music by Jerry Gray
Artist: Glenn Miller
Album: The Popular Recordings 1938-1942

The Rhumba Jumps

music by Hoagy Carmichael (left)

lyric by Johnny Mercer (right)
Artist: Glenn Miller
Album: The Popular Recordings 1938-1942
Artist: Mel Torme
Album: Ole Torme



Tuxedo Junction

music by Erskine Hawkins (middle), Julian Dash, (top)
William Luther Johnson & Buddy Feyne (above)
Artist: Glenn Miller
Album: The Popular Recordings 1938-1942; The Glenn Miller Orchestra In The Digital Mood; The Lost Recordings
Artist: Quincy Jones
Album: The ABC/Mercury Big Band Sessions, Disc 2

Wednesday, April 02, 2008


Shuffle Off To Buffalo

music by Harry Warren (right)

lyric by Al Dubin (left)
Artist: Ralph Sharon
Album: Ralph Sharon Plays The Harry Warren Songbook




Spring Isn't Everything

music by Harry Warren (above)

lyric by Ralph Blane (top)

Artist: Ralph Sharon
Album: Ralph Sharon Plays The Harry Warren Songbook




Swinging On A Star

music by Jimmy Van Heusen (left)

lyric by Johnny Burke (right)

Artist:
Joe Derise
Album: Joe Derise Sings And Plays The Van Heusen Anthropology, Vol. 4
Artist: Johnny Smith
Album: The Complete Roost Johnny Smith Small Group Sessions, disc 2

Tuesday, April 01, 2008




Sing My Heart

music by Harold Arlen (left)

lyric by Ted Koehler (right)

Artist: Ralph Sharon
Album: Potrait Of Harold
Artist: Lena Horne
Album: Lena: The Men In My Life

Shoeless Joe From Hannibal Mo

music and lyric by Jerry Ross (left) & Richard Adler (right)
Artist: The Hi-Lo's
Album: I Presume/Under Glass



Sweet Happy Life
music by Luiz Bonfa (above)

English lyric by Norman Gimbel (top)
Artist: Peggy Lee
Album: Pretty Eyes/Guitars Ala Lee









English lyric by Norman Gimbel