Ted Shapiro, music · Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, lyrics · 1928
Ted Shapiro wrote the music in 1928, and Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly wrote the words. Lead sheets in B♭ write it as 32 in the form A, A, B, A. The recordings here start with Fred Elizalde's band in November 1928 and run to Chihiro Yamanaka's 2009 album.
The path starts with a 1928 dance-band vocal, then moves through a swing tenor sextet, a piano trio, a live alto saxophone feature and a long live quartet take. It ends with a ballad vocal, a guitar and saxophone quartet and a live vocal trio, so the same 32 sound different each time.
8 recordings, 1928 to 1981 · Play all 8 on YouTube ↗
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Fred Elizalde and His Music, with Al Bowlly · 1928
Single, with “Avalon Town”
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Play the first four of the chart, , , and , one per bar, while you hum the tune along with the record.
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Flip Phillips and His Orchestra · 1952
Single, with “What Is This Thing Called Love?”
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Play 5 to 8 of the chart: with in bar 5, with in bar 6, then the same two bars again. Hear how the passing leads from B♭maj7 to Cm7.
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Teddy Wilson Trio · 1955 · Swing
The Creative Teddy Wilson
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Play the by chord: , then and sharing a , then Dm7 again and Em7♭5 with A7♭9 again.
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Art Blakey Quintet · 1954 · Hard bop
“If I Had You (Live)”, A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2
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Play the second ending, 15 and 16: , then and sharing a bar. Then start the on and hear how the A7♭9 resolves there.
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Lennie Tristano · 1955 · Post-bop, Avant-garde
Lennie Tristano
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Count the form while you listen: tap eight for each A, eight for the , and mark where each restarts.
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Etta Jones · 1960 · Vocal
Don't Go to Strangers
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Play the last two of the , with and then with , and land on to start the last A.
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Kenny Burrell · 1967 · Soul jazz, Post-bop
A Generation Ago Today
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Play the by chord at a slow tempo, one chord per : , , , , then B♭maj7 with and with . If you can solo over changes, play one of the A section over the record.
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Shirley Horn Trio · 1981 · Vocal
All Night Long
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Play the chart at the slowest tempo you can keep steady, one per and two chords where the chart shows two.
5 more, from 1929 to 2009. Tap a cover to play it here.
1929
Single, with “All By Yourself in the Moonlight”
Irving Aaronson's Commanders recorded the song for Victor in New York on February 6, 1929, with a vocal refrain by Burt Lorin.
1952
Oscar Peterson Plays Irving Berlin
Oscar Peterson recorded the song in Los Angeles around December 1952 with Barney Kessel on guitar and Ray Brown on bass.
1956 · Bebop, Hard bop
New York Jazz
Sonny Stitt recorded the song in New York on September 14, 1956, with Jimmy Jones on piano, Ray Brown on bass and Jo Jones on drums.
1961 · Cool jazz
Standards
Grant Green recorded the song with a Stanley Turrentine quintet in September 1961, and Blue Note issued the Standards album in 1998.
2009 · Bebop, Contemporary jazz
Runnin' Wild
Chihiro Yamanaka recorded the song in July 2009 for her Runnin' Wild album, with clarinet, vibraphone and guitar alongside her piano.
The tune's layout, its keys and the chord chart, for anyone who wants to play along.
Each runs 8 in . It opens , , , , then plays B♭maj7 with and with twice. The second A ends differently: bars 15 and 16 are , then with , which leads into the . The bridge starts in on and plays Em7♭5 with A7♭9 in bars 18, 20 and 22, with Dm7 and sharing bar 21. In bars 23 and 24 Dm7 with and Cm7 with F7 bring the music back to B♭ major for the last A.
Chart from iReal Pro's Jazz 1460 playlist, contributed by its users.