My Old Flame

De film was gebaseerd op een verhaal van West, getiteld "It Ain't No Sin" , wat ook de oorspronkelijke titel van de film-tot de censuur ingreep. Mae West stond bekend om haar nauwelijks verhulde erotische toespelingen en de tekst leek haar op het lijf geschreven.

Afgaande op regels als "my new lovers all seem so tame" heeft ze misschien zelf een aandeel in de tekst gehad, aldus Chris Tyle in zijn beschrijving en analyse van de compositie. De regel "I can't even think of his name" suggereert zelfs een onenightstand van lang geleden , meent Tyle.

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Ellington nam in datzelfde jaar een versie op voor Victor, waarbij Ivie Anderson de zang voor haar rekening nam. De eerste commercieel succesvolle versie kwam in toen het werd opgenomen door Spike Jones and His City Slickers. Het nummer werd al in de jaren veertig regelmatig gecoverd door jazzmusici en -vocalisten en dat is altijd zo gebleven. Versies van het lied zijn gezongen of gespeeld door talloze bekende artiesten:.

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Als mannelijke vocalisten het lied zongen, waren enkele lichte aanpassingen van de tekst noodzakelijk. Uit Wikipedia, de vrije encyclopedie. Perhaps not surprisingly the West version was not the hit. America preferred the Guy Lombardo recording with its "Mickey Mouse arrangement" climbed to number 7 on the charts during the summer of The track of "My Old Flame" on the music-video above is from the soundtrack of the movie Belle of the Nineties , on which Mae West is accompanied by Ellington and his orchestra.

Please complete or pause one video before starting another. The Complete Recordings The video below provides two takes of the Goodman rendition with Lee as vocalist. According to Ivan Santiago-Mercado, Peggy Lee's discographer, the two takes were made on August 20, Chicago and October 2, New York , with the latter being the one that became the master for the original recording and for subsequent re-releases of "My Old Flame.

Indeed, she likely wouldn't have recorded for the label at all had Columbia not balked at the explicit "Strange Fruit. Quasimodo famous Dial Sessions. Ted Gioia says the recording Parker et. Jazz at Ann Arbor.

He's joined by Russ Freeman piano , Carson Smith bass and Bob Neel drums , all of whom provide ample assistance without ever obscuring their leader's laid-back and refined style" from CD Universe Product Description.. Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Art Blakey combine on Dig , recorded in , except for "My Old Flame" and "Conception" which date from , and appear on a later release of the album. Ted Gioia compares Miles' earlier playing on "My Old Flame" with Charlie Parker, see just above by saying that by the mid-fifties Davis was part of the "oool school" and his ballad style had reached its maturity.

Here is the track from Dig.

The play list for this volume is completely different than that appearing on Vol. More rapid cadence pieces are prevalent on this volume than the first. The video is from Tokyo, All ten of the melodies are veteran standards that she knew backwards but still greeted with enthusiasm. Lush Life is the second in Ronstadt's series of three albums devoted to American standard songs, all with arrangements and orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle, the others being What's New , the first and For Sentimental Reasons , the third. All three of these Nelson Riddle collaboration albums have been combined onto a 2 CD set, Round Midnight -- the album shown in the video above.

Tony is accompanied by Ralph Sharon on piano, with string arrangements by Jorge Calandrelli. He includes the verse in this rendition. Rebecca Kilgore vocals and guitar ; Eddie Erickson the same plus banjo-- and does the vocal on "My Old Flame" , Dan Barrett trombone, cornet, piano, arrangements, vocals and Joel Forbes string bass -- who is featured on the "My Old Flame track.

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For Ted Gioia, The song is especially interesting because it is written in a major key but sounds minor, and because it combines two contrary modes: The complete, authoritative lyrics for "My Old Flame" can be found in: Visitor Comments Submit comments on songs, songwriters, performers, etc.