Good golly do I love the standards. A while back, you may recall, I posted covers first of “Bye Bye, Blackbird,” and then (with a lotta help from eb and Eileen Dahl) “Second Hand Rose.” Great tunes, both.
Here’s the third in this ongoing series of let’s-just-say-non-traditional piano/vocal/guitar takes on jazz standards — “For Every Man There’s a Woman,” written in 1948, with ok-they’re-sorta-dated lyrics by Leo Robins and absolutely timeless music by Harold Arlen. Wotta tune. Seriously: Big ups for Harold “Harold Arlen” Arlen, author of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “That Old Black Magic,” “I’ve Got the World on a String” and a gazillion other bits of genius.
Let me just put it this way: If Harold Arlen was alive today and had a web site, I’d give him a free link. That’s how much I like Harold Arlen.
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Enjoy! And thanks for dropping by…
Does this Arlen smoke crank or what? His taste in harmony and counterpoint belong in the little plastic meat holders at the Subway. He’s too old and his pants too big, his songs leave you with the feeling that you are reading Gravity Rainbow while some guy is eyeing your wife up and down. It’s a long song made longer by the feeling that someone just put a nail in my foot. That’s the way I see it….buddy.
Lovely and poignant…now excuse me, I have something in my eye.
Does this Arlen smoke crank or what? His taste in harmony and counterpoint belong in the little plastic meat holders at the Subway. He’s too old and his pants too big, his songs leave you with the feeling that you are reading Gravity Rainbow while some guy is eyeing your wife up and down. It’s a long song made longer by the feeling that someone just put a nail in my foot. That’s the way I see it….buddy.