I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me is a song written by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Clarence Gaskill (lyrics) and released in 1926.
background
Gaskill and McHugh wrote I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me for the revue Gay Paree , which premiered on November 9, 1926 at New York's Winter Garden Theater; there he was featured song by Winnie Lightner.
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me was the greatest success of lyricist Clarence Gaskill, who wrote just one more song with Jimmy McHugh, I Don't Mind Being All Alone , also in 1926. The moderate foxtrot is in B - Major written in the song form AA'BA '; the music of the chorus is characterized by dotted rhythms and slowly changing harmonies, which unusually begin in the subdominant (E major).
First recordings
The first musicians to record the song from January 1927 were Cliff Edwards , Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra (Victor), The Seven Aces (Columbia) and, in London, the Piccadilly Revels Band (Columbia) and The Savile (All-Masters) Dance Orchestra by Harry Savile .
Later cover versions
In 1953 the song made a comeback in the version of the Ames Brothers . The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 435 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz . a. by Louis Armstrong (1930), Nat Gonella (1932), Earl Hines (1932), Artie Shaw (1938), Teddy Wilson (1938), count Basie (1939) in later years by Charlie Parker , Billie Holiday , Frank Sinatra , Lee Konitz / Gerry Mulligan , Art Pepper , Ella Fitzgerald , Brew Moore , Lorez Alexandria and Terence Blanchard . I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me was also used in several films; Claudia Drake sang him in Detour (1945, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer ), May Wynn in Die Caine was her fate (1954) and Connie Francis in Looking for Love (1964, directed by Don Weis ).
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 359023355