Dearly Beloved
Dearly Beloved is a song written by Jerome Kern (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and released in 1942.
Using the song and first recording
Kern and Mercer wrote the song for the film musical You were never enchanting (1942, director: William A. Seiter ), in which Fred Astaire introduced him. You Were Never Lovelier contained a total of six core Mercer songs, three of which became classics: the theme song, the romantic ballad Dearly Beloved, and I'm Old Fashioned ; it remained the only cooperation between Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer. was presented Dearly Beloved in the film by Astaire and Rita Hayworth (synchronized whose song by Nan Wynn), accompanied by Xavier Cugat Orchestra. Gordon Jenkins directed the studio orchestra for the recording at Capitol Records with the band vocalist Johnny Johnston (Capitol 120).
The song was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Song category, which Irving Berlin finally received in 1943 for the song White Christmas .
Cover versions
As early as mid-1942, numerous cover versions of the song were made in recordings by the orchestras of Bob Crosby , Glenn Miller , Woody Herman , Benny Goodman , and Duke Ellington , most versions were rushed between July 24 and 31, 1942 because of the upcoming recording ban recorded. Glenn Miller's version with band vocalist Skip Nelson (Victor 27953) reached position 4 on the US charts, where it stood for ten weeks. Also, Dinah Shore and Alvino Rey were successful in the charts.
From the mid-1940s the song was also recorded by Lionel Hampton , Paggy Lee and June Christy , and in Europe also by Bert Ambrose , Ted Heath , Reinhold Svensson , Putte Wickman and Tommy Whittle , which made it a popular jazz standard . Also modern jazz musicians like Charlie Parker (1952), Sonny Rollins ( The Sound of Sonny , 1957, and again on Our Man in Jazz , 1962), Donald Byrd , Herbie Mann , Gigi Gryce , Cal Tjader and Stanley Turrentine on the eponymous Blue Note album (1959) and John Coltrane ( Sun Ship , 1966) took on the song. Tom Lord lists 184 cover versions of the title.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Song portrait at jazzstandards.com
- ^ Gene Lees : Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer , 2009
- ^ A b Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
- ^ Peter Townsend: Pearl Harbor Jazz: Changes in Popular Music in the Early 1940s , 2009, p. 174
- ↑ Lawrence O. Koch: Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker , 1988, p. 231
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 5, 2014)