Gone with the Wind (song)
Gone with the Wind is an American popular music song published by Allie Wrubel (melody) and Herb Magidson (lyrics) in 1937. It later developed into the jazz standard .
history
The song was created under the impression of the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell , but was not used in the film of the same name from 1939. The song, which was mainly in major , was written in the song form A - B - A - C.
Gone with the Wind , first released as a single in 1937, sold a million copies; in the original version recorded by Horace Heidt (with singer Larry Cotton), the song reached number 1 in the American charts in July 1937. A few weeks later, the versions by Guy Lombardo (# 16) and Claude Thornhill (with singer Maxine Sullivan , # 19) also hit the charts. Art Tatum played a solo version in the same year.
Critics complained that the lightness of the piece would suit a nightclub rather than scenes from the American Civil War, so that it initially fell out of focus. The piece experienced a revival after the Second World War with a new recording by saxophonists Johnny Hodges and Don Byas , who were in the recording studio for RCA Victor in 1946 with the all-star band from Esquire magazine . Stan Getz (1950) interpreted the song under the impression of the version by Hodges / Byas as a "romantic ballad "; later recordings of the piece, around 1953 in his quartet with Chet Baker , were again held at medium tempo.
Interpretations (selection)
The discographer Tom Lord performed a total of 568 (as of 2016) recording sessions in the field of jazz from 1937 (with Claude Thornhill).
The following selection, which completely dispenses with vocal versions (such as those by Billie Holiday , Julie London or Ella Fitzgerald ), was made by Ted Gioia . The date of recording is given in brackets.
- Claude Thornhill with Maxine Sullivan (June 14, 1937)
- Art Tatum (November 29, 1937)
- Esquire All-American Jazz Award Winners with Johnny Hodges / Don Byas (January 11, 1946)
- Mel Tormé (November 15, 1947)
- Chet Baker and Stan Getz, live from The Haig (June 12, 1953)
- Clifford Brown and Zoot Sims on the Jazz Immortal album (August 12, 1954)
- Jackie McLean on the album McLean's Scene (December 14, 1956)
- Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond on the album Gone With the Wind (April 22, 1959)
- Wes Montgomery and Tommy Flanagan on the album The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (January 26, 1960)
- Bill Evans and Eddie Gomez on the album Eloquence (November 7-10 , 1976)
- Charles McPherson and Steve Kuhn on the album But Beautiful (July 24 and 25, 2003)
literature
- Ted Gioia: Gone With the Wind . In: The Jazz Standards: A Guide To the Repertoire . Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-993740-0 , pp. 132-134 .