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11-08-2019, 07:55 PM #1joelf Guest
One of my faves. I recorded it in Frankie's key and stole from Jenkins's chart. Here's the Chairman---and dig that low A ending. (Tony Bennett to follow):
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11-08-2019, 07:56 PM #2joelf Guest
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Doesn't get any better than those two.
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11-09-2019, 10:48 PM #4joelf Guest
And FWIW, inspired by Ol' Blue Eyes, here's my little bauble from Melody Messenger (on purpose the 1st tune, since I was endeavoring to tell stories). Let's have some fun and see who can hear the steal from Gordie Jenkins's chart:
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The Sinatra Bennett renditions are great and probably the most well known, but after the Darin version I like Brook Benton's best though it's not on youtube
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11-12-2019, 05:37 PM #7joelf GuestOriginally Posted by wintermoon
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Originally Posted by joelf
DB
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11-14-2019, 07:46 PM #9joelf GuestOriginally Posted by DB's Jazz Guitar Blog
As Cyrano said: 'I thank you, and again I thank you'...
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12-01-2019, 08:49 AM #10joelf GuestOriginally Posted by wintermoon
Digging the rubato up front---makes it a recitation and song at the same time...and becomes effectively like a verse.
Smart man, that Darin...
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Thanks for the fine rendition Joel. The song was always a favorite of mine. The other side of the 45 wasn't too bad either. It is one of the few vinyl records I've kept.
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12-01-2019, 03:44 PM #12joelf GuestOriginally Posted by losaltosjoe
Which reminds me of one of my favorite bad jokes:
A guy I'll call Lenny has a bum ticker. Goes to the doctor. 'Lenny, I got bad news and good news. The bad: you'll live maybe a year w/o a heart transplant. IF you're lucky. The good: I got you on the list for a year from now.'
Old Lenny hangs on, does due diligence---makes it through w/o getting sicker. So the phone rings: 'Mr. Lenny Lefkowitz? Your heart is here and ready for transplant! It's in a cooler for you to pick up and we've booked you for transplant surgery tomorrow morning.'
Lenny is both pleased and scared to death. 'What if I don't make it through the surgery? The heart's rejected? I'm not exactly in tip-top shape'. Decides to go out and party hearty this possible last night on earth. Calls a friend. They pick up the heart in the cooler and drive 40 miles to downtown and hit every bar and dance joint. Lines of coke, liquor, women. Last stop is a disco.
They party more at the disco, turn back to go home. 30 miles out Lenny realizes something.
'Oh, s&&t----we gotta go back!!'.
'Have you lost your mind, too?! I'm not turning back now. What could be so important anyway?'
'We gotta go back 'cause (everybody now, c'mon) I LEFT MY HEART IN STAN FRAN'S DISCO'...
(I'm here through Thursday, etc.)...Last edited by joelf; 12-01-2019 at 06:07 PM.
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