While The Music Plays On

While The Music Plays On

PROFILE
Composer Emery “Eddie” Heim
Lyricists Irving Mills, Lupin Fein
Year Written 1939
About While The Music Plays On
Emery Heim was born in Budapest and moved to America in 1939. He served in the US Army, Special Services, during World War II.

Lyrics

Each night in some cafe
I’m on display until the dark turns into dawn
Up upon the stand, singing with a band
While the music plays on

Each night is just a long
And endless song until the last couple has gone
Vainly I must start singing out my heart
While the music plays on

Oh, what madness to discover
Music still possesses all its charms
As I serenade my lover
Dancing by in someone else’s arms

But I am not allowed to show the crowd
What happens when romance has gone
I must hide my fears singing through the tears
While the music plays on

Oh, what madness to discover
Music still possesses all of its charms
As I serenade my lover
Dancing by in someone else’s arms

But I am not allowed to show the crowd
What happens when romance has gone
I must hide my fears singing through my tears
While the music plays on

Session / Album Information

1954

While The Music Plays On was recorded on August 11, 1954  and released in 1955 on the album Cloud 7.

While the Music Plays On

Listen to While the Music Plays On on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1955

This recording also released on:

  • 1987: CBS LP 12″: 4504651 — Jazz (UK)
  • 1987: Columbia LP 12″: C2 40424 — Jazz
  • 1987: Columbia CD: CGK 40424 — Jazz
  • 1991: Columbia CD: CSK 4083 — Forty Years: The Artistry Of Tony Bennett (Promo)
  • 1991: Columbia CD: C4K 46843 — Forty Years – The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
  • 1993: CBS/Sony CD: SRCS-6641 — Forty Years: The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
  • 1998: Columbia CD: CK 65049 — This Is Jazz #33
  • 2004: Columbia CD: CK 85806 — Cloud 7
  • 2004: Jazz CD: 5060392000 — Cloud 7
  • 2004: Columbia/Legacy CD: C5K 92784 — Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett
  • 2007: Proper CD: PROPERBOX 121 — Young Tony
  • 2008: Not Now Music CD: NOT3CD010 — Three Original Hit Albums [UK]
  • 2011: Disc #9 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK9) Cloud 7

Until I Met You

Freddie Green

Freddie Green

PROFILE
Songwriters Freddie Green, Don Wolfe
Year Written 1956
About Until I Met You
“Until I Met You” was written in 1956 by Freddie Green and Donald E. Wolf. This song is also known as “Corner Pocket.” Freddie Green played rhythm guitar for the Count Basie Orchestra for fifty years. This song has also been recorded by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Sarah Vaughan, among others.

Lyrics

I used to be so fancy free,
But really lonesome as could be,
Till one lucky day, you came my way
I never knew what love was all about
Until I met you.

I used to think there’d never be,
A girl who’d ever care for me,
Then, what díya know, you made it so,
I never knew what love was all about,
Until I met you.

When you kissed me,
I felt the season change from winter to spring
When you kissed me,
I lost my reason ’cause I heard the birds sing
I felt like a king

And now I have to rub my eyes
Each time I try to realize
That your love is mine
Ain’t it just fine
I never knew what love was all about
Until I met you

Since I found you,
I feel the entire universe real
I never knew what love was about
Until I met you
I’m the happiest boy ’cause you bring me nothing but joyy
I never knew what love was all about
Until I met you

And now I have to rub my eyes
Each time I try to realize
That your love is mine, ain’t it just fine
I never knew what love was all about
Until I met you.

Session / Album Information

1962

“Until I Met You” was recorded on March 16, 1962 for On The Glory Road, which was to be released in 1962, but was cancelled. This recording was included on the 1963 album I Wanna Be Around. The song was arranged by Ralph Sharon.

This recording released on:

  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″: CS 8613 — On The Glory Road (release canceled)
  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″ (Mono): CL 1813 — On The Glory Road (release canceled)
  • 1963: Columbia LP 12″: P 13575 — I Wanna Be Around
  • 1963: Columbia LP 12″: CS 8800 — I Wanna Be Around
  • 1963: CBS LP 12″: SBPG 62149 — I Wanna Be Around (UK)
  • 1963: CBS EP: AGG 320037 — The Good Life (UK)
  • 1995: Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
  • 1991: Columbia CD: C4K 46843 — Forty Years – The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
  • 1993: CBS/Sony CD: SRCS-6641 — Forty Years: The Artistry Of Tony Bennett
  • 1995: Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
  • 2004: Columbia/Legacy CD: C5K 92784 — Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett
  • 2005: Columbia CD: 94299 — Jazz Moods: Cool
  • 2006: RPM/Columbia/Legacy CD: 82876 87234 — I Wanna Be Around
  • 2011: Disc #22 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK22) On the Glory Road
  • 2011: Disc #26 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK25) I Wanna Be Around

 

Take The A Train

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PROFILE
Composer Billy Strayhorn
Lyricist Joya Sherrill
Year Written Music (1939), lyrics (1944)
About Take The A Train
When Duke Ellington first hired Billy Strayhorn, he sent him directions to his home on Sugar Hill in Harlem, which included the instruction to “take the A train.” Strayhorn wrote his early and very famous song based on that. It became Ellington’s signature tune and was played at virtually every concert he gave.

Lyrics

You must take the ‘A’ train
To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem
If you miss the ‘A’ train
You’ll find you missed the quickest way to Harlem

Hurry, get on now, it’s coming
Listen to those rails a-humming
All aboard, get on the ‘A’ train
Soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem

Session / Album Information

1999

“Take The A Train” was recorded on May 20, 1999 and features the Ralph Sharon Quartet, with Paul Langosch (bass), Gray Sargent (guitar) and Clayton Cameron (drums) and Al Grey on trombone and Wynton Marsalis on trumpet. It was arranged and conducted by Ralph Burns. This recording is a previously unreleased outtake from Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool.

Take The "A" Train

Tony Bennett · Rarities, Outtakes & Other Delights, Vol. 2 · Song · 2012

This recording released on:

  • 2011: Disc #2 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK2) Rarities, Outtakes & Other Delights, Vol. 2

Something To Live For

Ellington-Strayhorn
PROFILE
Songwriters Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington
Year Written 1939
About
“Something To Live For” was the first official collaboration between Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

Lyrics

I have almost ev’ry thing a human could desire,
Cars and houses, bear-skin rugs to lie before my fire
But there’s something missing,
Something isn’t there,
It seems I’m negver kissing the one whom I care for.
I want Something To Live For
Someone to make my life an adventurous dream
Oh, what wouln’t I give for
Someone who’d take my life and make it seem
gay as they say it ought to be.
Why can’t I have love like that brought to me?
My eye is watching the noon crowds
searching the promenades seeking a clue
To the one who will someday be my
Something To Live For.
I want Something To Live For
Someone to make my life an adventurous dream
Oh, what wouln’t I give for
Someone who’d take my life and make it seem
gay as they say it ought to be.
Why can’t I have love like that brought to me?
My eye is watching the noon crowds
searching the promenades seeking a clue
To the one who will someday be my
Something To Live For.

Session / Album Information

1970

“Something To Live For” was recorded on December 3, 1970; it is a previously unreleased outtake from the album Love Story. It was arranged by Peter Matz.

Something To Live For - 1970 version

Listen to Something To Live For - 1970 version on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 2012

This recording released on:

  • 2011: Disc #2 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK2) Rarities, Outtakes & Other Delights, Vol. 2

1971

“Something To Live For” was recorded on August 11, 1971; it is a previously unreleased outtake from the album Summer of ’42. This version features John Bunch on piano and was arranged by Robert Farnon.

Something To Live For - 1971 version

Listen to Something To Live For - 1971 version on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 2012

This recording released on:

  • 2011: Disc #2 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK2) Rarities, Outtakes & Other Delights, Vol. 2

1999

“Something To Live For” was recorded in May 1999 and released that same year on the special bonus CD release of Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool.

This recording released on:

  • 1999: RPM Records / Columbia CD: CSK 46304 — Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool (special bonus CD)

Some Other Spring

some-other-spring
PROFILE
Composer Irene Kitchings
Lyricist Arthur Herzog, Jr.
Year Written 1939
About Some Other Spring
This song was a favorite of Billie Holiday. This song was composed by her friend Irene Kitchings, wife of bandleader Teddy Wilson.

Lyrics

Some other spring
I’ll try to love
Now I still cling
To faded blossoms
Fresh and worn
Left crushed and torn
Like the love affair I mourn

Some other spring
When twilight falls
Will the night bring
Another to me?

Not your kind
But let me find
It’s not true that love is blind
Sunshine’s around me
But deep in my heart it’s cold as ice
Love, once you’ve found me
But can that story unfold twice?

Some other spring
Will my heart awake
Stirring to sing
Love’s magic music
Then forget that old duet
Find love in some other spring

Session / Album Information

1996

“Some Other Spring” was recorded in June 1996 and released in 1997 on the album Tony Bennett On Holiday. It was arranged by Jorge Calandrelli.

Some Other Spring

Tony Bennett · Tony Bennett On Holiday: A Tribute To Billie Holiday · Song · 1997

This recording released on:

  • 1997: Columbia CD: CK 67774 — On Holiday
  • 2011: Disc #63 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK61) On Holiday

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