I concentrate on you
I Concentrate on You is a song written by Cole Porter and published in 1939. Porter composed it for the musical film Broadway Melody in 1940 ; In the following years he was covered by numerous cover versions , u. a. by Chris Connor , Carmen McRae , Frank Sinatra and Mel Tormé also to a jazz standard .
In the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film Broadway Melody of 1940 (directed by Norman Taurog ) the song was presented by Douglas McPhail and accompanied a dance sequence by Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire . I Concentrate on You hit the charts twice in 1940, in the version by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with band vocalist Anita Boyer (Victor 26470) at # 20 and by Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra with Stanley Worth (# 25). Furthermore, Cole Porter's song was recorded in 1939/40 by Les Brown , Dick Jurgens / Eddy Howard ( Vocalion 5442) and the Casa Loma Orchestra . In 1941 he was also taken on by Gunnar Sønstevold in Sweden and Eddie Brunner in Switzerland. In the following years he was also performed by Max Roach , Cal Tjader , Lee Konitz / Red Mitchell , Johnny Hartman , Sheila Jordan , Jon Hendricks , Ella Fitzgerald ( Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook 1956), JJ Johnson / Kai Winding , Gerald Wilson , Stan Kenton and Tito Puente . Although Fred Astaire did not introduce the song in the music film, Norman Granz produced a vocal version of Astaire for Mercury Records in 1953 , accompanied by Charlie Shavers as a soloist . The discographer Tom Lord lists 346 versions of the song in the field of jazz alone .
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- ↑ The other musicians were Flip Phillips , Oscar Peterson , Barney Kessel , Ray Brown and Alvin Stoller .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 21, 2014)