Young and Foolish

Young&Foolish
PROFILE
Composer Albert Hague
Lyricist Arnold B. Horwitt
Year Written 1954
About Young and Foolish “Young and Foolish” is from the 1954 musical Plain and Fancy concerning a New York couple who travel to Amish country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to sell a piece of property and become involved with and learn from the community.

Lyrics

Once we were foolish children
Playing as children play
Racing through a meadow April bright
Dreaming on a hilltop half the night
Now that we’re growing older
We have no time to play
Now that we’re growing wiser
We are not wise enough to stay

Young and foolish
Why is it wrong to be
Young and foolish?
We haven’t long to be
Soon enough the carefree days
The sunlit days go by
Soon enough the bluebird has to fly

We were foolish
One day we fell in love
Now we wonder
What were we dreaming of
Smiling in the sunlight
Laughing in the rain
I wish that we were young and foolish again

Session / Album Information

1963

“Young and Foolish” was recorded on April 22, 1963 and released in 1963 on the album This Is All I Ask. It was arranged by Ralph Burns.

Young And Foolish

Listen to Young And Foolish on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 1963

This recording released on:

  • 1963: Columbia LP 12″: CS 8856 — This Is All I Ask
  • 1963: Columbia LP 12″ (Mono): CL 2056 — This Is All I Ask
  • 1995: Columbia CD: CK 66504 — I Wanna Be Around
  • 2011: Disc #27 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK26) This Is All I Ask

1975-1

“Young and Foolish” was recorded in June, 1975 and was released that year on The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album.

Young And Foolish

Tony Bennett, Bill Evans · The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album (Expanded Edition) · Song · 1975

This recording released on:

  • 1975: Fantasy LP 12″: F 9489 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 1984: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab LP 12″: MFSL-1-117 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 1991: Fantasy CD: OJCCD-439-2 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 1992: Fantasy/OJC CD: OJCCD 439 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 2000: Fantasy CD: 204392 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 2001: JVC XRCD CD: JVCXR-020802 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 2006: Fantasy CD: FCD-30177 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 2009: Concord CD: FAN-31281 — The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings
  • 2011: Disc #52 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK51) The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album

1975-2

“Young and Foolish” (alternate take #4) was recorded in June, 1975 and was released that year on The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album.

Young And Foolish - Take 4

Tony Bennett, Bill Evans · The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album (Expanded Edition) · Song · 1975

This recording released on:

  • 2006: Fantasy CD: FCD-30177 — The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
  • 2009: Concord CD: FAN-31281 — The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings
  • 2011: Disc #52 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK51) The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album

What Good Does It Do

Jamaica
PROFILE
Composer Harold Arlen
Lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg
Year Written 1957
About What Good Does It Do
“What Good Does It Do” was written for the Broadway musical Jamaica, which starred Lena Horne and Ricardo Montálban; the principal dancer was Alvin Ailey. Yarburg had been blacklisted during the McCarthy period and was unable to work in film or TV from 1951 to 1962. Fortunately, producer David Merrick and Broadway welcomed Yarburg. Jamaica was nominated for major Tony Awards, including Best Musical, all the acting nominations and both scenic and costume design, though it lost to The Music Man.

Lyrics

The Sun is full of liquor
The Earth is full of wine
Crickets doin’ nip-ups
Brown the columbine
The feeling is infectious
June is everywhere
Hearts, light and windy
‘Cause Spring is in the air

Although what good does it do a guy
To know that June is in the sky
What good to know
That there are birds and bees
Composin’ beautiful calypsos
In the eucalyptus trees
It’s strange, but sad
When love go bad
The Spring that once come to tickle us
Now add up to re-dic-ulas

And so I say
What good is April or June or May
What good are sonnets in the Spring
That you sing
Or cherries in the trees
That you see
Or lilies in the dell
That you smell
When you’re all alone
With June in the sky
What good does it do
Does it do a guy

The smell in the dell
The rose in your hair
The thrillin’ spell
And the whole mir-a-kell
Of the Moon in the velvet sky
What good does it do
Does it do, does it do a guy.

Session / Album Information

1960

This song was recorded on August 18, 1960 and released in 1960 on the album Tony Bennett Sings a String of Harold Arlen.

What Good Does It Do

Tony Bennett · Tony Bennett Sings A String Of Harold Arlen · Song · 1960

This recording released on:

  • 1960: Columbia LP 12″: CS 8359 — A String Of Harold Arlen
  • 1960: Columbia LP 12″ (Mono): CL 1559 — A String Of Harold Arlen
  • 1960:  Philips LP 12″ (Mono): BBL 7455 — Sings A String Of Harold Arlen (UK)
  • Sony Music CD: SMSP A 8359 — A String Of Harold Arlen
  • 1990: CBS/Sony CD: CSCS-5244 — Sings A String Of Harold Arlen [Japan]
  • 1990: Columbia House Music Collection CD: C22 8015 — The Great American Composers: Harold Arlen
  • 1993: Sony Music Special Products CD: 15056 — Tony Bennett Sings for You
  • 2011: Disc #18 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK18) Tony Bennett Sings a String of Harold Arlen

1962

“What Good Does It Do” was recorded live at Tony Bennett’s concert at Carnegie Hall on June 9, 1962 and was initially released in 1962 on the album Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall. Ralph Sharon arranged the song.

This recording released on:

  • 1962: CBS LP 12″: BPG62116 — At Carnegie Hall – Part 2 (UK)
  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″: C2L 23 — Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall
  • 1962: Columbia LP 12″: C2S 823 — Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall
  • 1993: Sony Music Special Products CD: 15056 — Tony Bennett Sings for You
  • 1995:  Sony Music CD: WK 75012 — Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall
  • 1997: Columbia CD: C2K 64609 — At Carnegie Hall June 9, 1962: Complete Concert
  • 2011: Disc #24 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK24) Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall

Something’s Gotta Give

Somethings Gotta Give
PROFILE
Composer and Lyricist Johnny Mercer
Year Written 1954
About Something’s Gotta Give
One of the rare songs that Mercer wrote both music and lyrics for, “Something’s Gotta Give” was written for Fred Astaire to sing in his 1955 film Daddy Long Legs. Other recordings include those by Sammy Davis, Jr., The McGuire Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé and Ella Fitzgerald.

Lyrics

When an irresistible force such as you
Meets an old immovable object like me
You can bet just as sure as you live

Something’s gotta give
Something’s gotta give
Something’s gotta give

When an irrepressible smile such as yours
Warms an old implacable heart such as mine
Don’t say no because I insist

Somewhere, somehow
Someone’s gotta be kissed

So, en garde, who knows what the fates might have in store
From their vast mysterious sky
I’ll try hard ignorin’ those lips that I adore
But how long can anyone try?

Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight it with all of our might
Chances are some heavenly star-spangled night
We’ll find out just as sure as we live

Something’s gotta give
Something’s gotta give
Something’s gotta give

Fight, fight, fight it with all of your might
Chances are that some heavenly star-spangled night
We’ll find out just as sure as we live

Something’s gotta give
Something’s gotta give
Something’s gotta give

Something’s gotta give
Something’s gotta give

Session / Album Information

1955

“Something’s Gotta Give” was recorded on June 9, 1955 and released that year on the Columbia compilation All Star Pops. It was arranged by Sid Feller.

Something"s Gotta Give

Tony Bennett · Rarities, Outtakes & Other Delights, Vol. 1 · Song · 2012

This recording released on:

  • 1955: Columbia LP 12″: CL 728 — All Star Pops
  • 1955: Columbia EP: B-2079
  • 2011: Disc #7 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK7) The Columbia Singles, Vol. 5

Someone To Light Up My Life

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PROFILE
Composer Antonio Carlos Jobim
Lyricist (Portuguese) Vinicius DeMoraes
Lyricist (English) Gene Lees
Year Written 1954
About Someone To Light Up My Life
This song, known as “Se Todos Fossem Iguals A Voce” in the original Portuguese, was written for a 1956 Brazilian play based on the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice called Ofreu da Conceicao, which served as the basis for the 1959 film Black Orpheus. Jobim’s score for the play embodies the samba and bossa nova styles, of course, which at that time, had yet to find audiences outside of Brazil. This all changed with the 1959 film Black Orpheus, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

Lyrics

Go on your way with the cloudless blue sky above
May all your days be a wonderful song of love
Open your arms and sing of all the hidden hopes you’ll ever treasure
And live out your life in peace

Where shall I look for the love to replace you
Someone to light up my life
Someone with strange little ways
Eyes like a blue autumn haze
Someone with your laughing style
And a smile that I know will keep haunting me endlessly

Sometimes in stars or the swift flight of seabirds
I catch a moment of you
Thats why I walk all alone
Searching for something unknown
Searching for something or someone to light up my life

Session / Album Information

1971

“Someone To Light Up My Life” was recorded on September 11, 1972 and released that year on the album The Good Things In Life. It was arranged by Robert Farnon.

This recording released on:

  • 1972: MGM LP 12″: MV-5088 — The Good Things In Life
  • 1972: Verve LP 12″: V6 5088 — The Good Things In Life
  • 1972: Philips LP 12″: 6641297 — Spotlight On Tony Bennett (UK)
  • 2011: Disc #45 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK44) The Good Things In Life

Shoo-Gah (My Pretty Sugar)

TonyBennett1951
PROFILE
Composer Carlos Gedarro
Lyricists (German) Andre Hoff
Lyricists (English) Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl
Year Written 1954
About Shoo-Gah
This song is a bit of an enigma, though it seems to have been originally published in Germany as “Auf Jamaika Schenken Abends Die Matrosen,” which translates, roughly, to something about sailors in bars at night in Jamaica. How this all turned into “My Pretty Shoo-gah” is up in the air. In the German, it was recorded by the Willy Berking Orechster with vocals by Werner Dies. Well, the English version sounds kind of Jamaican.

Lyrics

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Session / Album Information

1954

“Shoo-Gah” was recorded on September 24, 1954 and released that year as a single.

Shoo-Gah (My Pretty Sugar)

Listen to Shoo-Gah (My Pretty Sugar) on Spotify. Song · Tony Bennett · 2011

This recording released on:

  • 1954: Columbia 78: 40376
  • 1954: Columbia 45: 4-40376
  • 2007: Proper CD: PROPERBOX 121 — Young Tony
  • 2011: Disc #5 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK5) The Columbia Singles, Volume 3

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