How About You?
How About You? is a song by Burton Lane (music) and Ralph Freed (lyrics) released in 1941.
Lane and Freed wrote How About You? for the film Babes on Broadway (1942), directed by Busby Berkeley , starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland , who introduce the song in the film. How About You? received an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1943 .
Judy Garland (accompanied by the David Rose Orchestra, Brunswick 83305) recorded the song on record; numerous cover versions of How About You? were already recorded in the 1940s, u. a. by Teddy Powell , Tommy Dorsey , Teddy Weatherford , Fred Böhler , Alice Babs and Claude Thornhill . In the 1950s the song was also performed by Frank Sinatra ( Songs for Swingin 'Lovers 1956), Ahmad Jamal , Oscar Peterson ( The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakepearean Festival 1956), Horace Silver , Lennie Niehaus , Cal Tjader , Chet Baker , Buddy DeFranco , Kenny Burrell , Tal Farlow and Rosemary Clooney / The Hi-Lo's interpreted what made it a popular jazz standard . Tom Lord lists 261 versions of the song.
The arrangement of the song by Gil Evans (originally for the Thornhill Orchestra) recorded by Ryan Truesdell Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans in 2012 was awarded a Grammy in 2013 for Best Instrumental Arrangement .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tender is the Night is in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ The 1943 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 12, 2014)