Jimmy McHugh, music · Dorothy Fields, lyrics · Lew Leslie's International Revue, 1930
McHugh and Fields wrote this song for the 1930 Broadway revue Lew Leslie's International Revue. Its stay close to , with one short visit to in the . Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie all recorded it.
These eight versions run from a voice with a trio and dance-band records to piano, guitar and saxophone readings, and end with a big band in a new . The stay the same, so they become familiar as the arrangements change around them.
8 recordings, 1944 to 1965 · Play all 8 on YouTube ↗
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Billie Holiday and the Eddie Heywood Trio · 1944
Commodore 614
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Play the 's at a steady medium tempo: , , , , , , then into C6. Sing or hum the melody over them.
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Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with the Sentimentalists · 1944
Victor 20-1648
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Play the 's one per : , , , Fmaj7, , , , . Hear where the harmony moves to F and where it returns to C.
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Django Reinhardt with Hubert Rostaing · 1946
Djangologie Vol. 15 / 1946-1947
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Play 3 and 4 of the slowly: , then and on two beats each, into . Notice that the bass line climbs from G to G♯ to A.
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Erroll Garner Trio · 1949
Portrait 8500
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Play the full 32 as a lead sheet at medium tempo. At the end of the first , play the first-ending to return to bar 1.
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Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio · 1952
Clef 89045
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Sing or play the melody, then play one tone per over the 's changes. If that is too much, play only the root of each chord.
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Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt · 1957 · Hard bop, Soul jazz
Sonny Side Up
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Play the through four with a metronome and mark each time you reach the . To add a layer, play the melody on the first chorus and the roots of each chord after that.
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Earl Hines · 1965 · Bebop
Paris Session
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Play the form alone at the piano: melody in the right hand and one root per in the left. If that is too much, play only the left-hand roots of the .
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Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie and His Orchestra · 1963 · Big band
Ella and Basie!
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Transpose the into and play it from memory. If that is too much, play only the roots of the in G.
1 more, from 1959 to 1959. Tap a cover to play it here.
1959
Oscar Peterson Plays the Jimmy McHugh Song Book
Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen recorded this at Universal Recording in Chicago in 1959 for an album of Jimmy McHugh songs.
The tune's layout, its keys and the chord chart, for anyone who wants to play along.
The form is , 32 in . Each starts , , , then and share bar 4 and lead to in bar 5. and follow, and the first A ends with the Dm7 G7 that returns to bar 1. The opens with and resolving to Fmaj7, which stays for two bars, so these four bars sit in . Am7, D7, Dm7 and G7 then bring the harmony back to C for the last A, which ends on C6 G7.
Chart from iReal Pro's Jazz 1460 playlist, contributed by its users.