Song of the Day: you're my dish, 1937, Fats Waller, Jimmy McHugh.
Added to the Fats Waller project.
I uploaded the tab to Ultimate Guitar.
Previous SongOfTheDay was the 1938 version of 'tennessee whiskey', comparing 1's lover to alcoholic beverages. This 1 compares 1's lover to food, LOL! Even worse, IMO. The phrase "blue plate of romance" is a good 1. ;-P
Song of the Day: you go to my head, 1938, J. Fred Coots.
LOL, the 1938 forerunner to "Tennessee Whiskey".
Song of the Day: sweet heartache, 1937, Fats Waller.
Added to the Fats Waller project.
I uploaded the tab to Ultimate Guitar.
Song of the Day: is you is or is you ain't my baby, 1944, Louis Jordan.
I got this song from my sensei Rick Howard, who did a great recording of it with the Rick Howard Trio.
Song of the Day: until the real thing comes along, 1936, Fats Waller.
Sinatra covered this in 1984 & added 3 verses & a bridge. I used those but changed 1980s cultural references to something that would have flown in the 1930s.
Added to the Fats Waller project.
Song of the Day: april in paris, 1932.
Song of the Day: god bless the child, 1941, Billie Holiday.
I would have guessed that this was a protest song from the early-mid 1960s - maybe because it's so bluesy?
Nope, 1941. Billie Holiday wrote the lyrics.
Song of the Day: my funny valentine, 1937, Rogers & Hart.
Added to the With Intros project.
Song of the Day: someone to watch over me, 1926, George Gershwin.
Added to the With Intros project.
Song of the Day: just one of those things, 1935, Cole Porter
Song of the Day: i'm crazy 'bout my baby (and my baby's crazy 'bout me), 1936, Fats Waller.
Louis Armstrong covered the song in 1955.
Leon Redbone covered the song in 1994.
So, 19 years Fats => Louis. 39 years Louis => Leon. 27 years Leon => me.
Clearly a song with some legs. Like so many Fats songs, the song is upbeat, happy, playful, and very fun to perform.
Added to the Fats Waller and With Intro projects.
I uploaded the tab to Ultimate Guitar.
Song of the Day: i'm in the mood for love, 1935, Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields.
Song of the Day: hymne à l'amour, 1950, Edith Piaf.
Song of the Day: skylark, 1942, Hoagy Carmichael & Johnny Mercer.
This is such a pretty song.
Hoagy Carmichael on music (5 songs in his YouTube playlist) and Johnny Mercer on lyrics (11 songs in his YouTube playlist) seems like a gold standard. I have 1 other tune by that combo: lazybones ?!?!?
Song of the Day: honeysuckle rose, 1929, Fats Waller.
The intro is from the 1955 Louis Armstrong version.
The James Smith guitar solo starting at 1:20 is from a 1934 Fats video. James gets some screen time, yay!
Added to the Fats Waller and With Intro projects.
I uploaded the tab to Ultimate Guitar.
Song of the Day: "i only have eyes for you", 1934.
The original version, sung by Dick Powell in the movie "Dames", is quite different than the 1956 version by The Flamingos.
I could not find the 3rd & 4th lines of the intro (which The Flamingos drop) on any lyrics site.
Added to the With Intro project.
I uploaded the tab to Ultimate Guitar.
Song of the Day: "you do something to me", 1929, Cole Porter.
Song of the Day: "la vie en rose", 1947, Edith Piaf.
This was the original French recording of the song. In 1950, several artists, including Edith and Louis Armstrong, recorded the song in English. I included the kiss and "C'est la vie." at the end from Edith's 1950 English version.
The Louis Armstrong version of the song was Song of the Day October 26, 2020. Edith's English version included an interlude, Louis's didn't.
I got a copyright claim on YouTube for this song. From Sony, for infringing on "La Vie En Rose, Live (2012)". 1947 is 74 years ago??? I thought copyright was 70 years, apparently it's 95. Still, claiming I'm infringing on a 2012 recording I've never heard of, copying a 1947 song seems incongruous. I contested the claim. An interesting exercise, hopefully I won't lose my YouTube channel.
Added to the With Intro project.
Song of the Day: "i've got a feeling i'm falling", 1929, Fats Waller & Billy Rose.
I got the vocal from the Gene Austin 1929 version. Annette Hanshaw also recorded this song.
Added to both the With Intro and Fats Waller projects.
I uploaded the tab to Ultimate Guitar.
Song of the Day: "(you'd be so) easy to love", 1934, Cole Porter.
Added to the With Intro project.
Song Of The Day: "rockin' chair", 1929, Hoagy Carmichael.
Hoagy wrote some of my fav tunes of these standards.
I did my 1st Song Of The Day since July 19: "tea for two (2) (with intro)", 1924, Vincent Youmans.
I already recorded this song 2021-01-03.
This time I put the looper on for the main song & then soloed over it.
I'm not sure I like the vocal & guitar harmony (at around 2:30). I ran it by Rick Howard, he likes it! FTW!