I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan

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I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan (s) (The Blue Pajamas Song) is a pop song written by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Howard Dietz (lyrics) and released in 1930.

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Edward "David", Duke of Windsor in 1945

Schwartz composed a camp song entitled I Love to Lie Awake in Bed as early as 1924 , to which Lorenz Hart wrote the lyrics. At the request of the music producer Clifton Webb , the text for the music revue The Little Show was revised, but I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan in the new form was not very successful. This changed when the Prince of Wales asked Howard Dietz for a “blue pajama song”. At first he didn't know what the prince meant until he remembered a phrase from I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan , namely why did I buy those blue pajamas? . After asking for this song in nightclubs and at social events, the prince became a hit in Europe and eventually rediscovered in America.

First recordings and later cover versions

Musicians who first recorded the song in the United States included the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1932), Carroll Gibbons (1932; Columbia DB 1013), Guy Lombardo (Brunswick, 1394), Hal Kemp (1934), Benny Goodman ( 1935), Glenn Miller , Hazel Scott ( V-Disc , 1945); in England the song was recorded by the Ambrose Mayfair Hotel Orchestra ( HMV 6261) and Al Bowlly , among others . In the post-war period, numerous cover versions of the song a. a. by Johnny Mercer , Teddi King , Rosemary Clooney , Bud Freeman , Billy May , Mundell Lowe , Bobby Hackett / Jack Teagarden , Art Tatum , Julie London , Woody Herman , Arne Bue Jensen , Annie Ross , Inge Brandenburg and the Hr-Jazzensemble , Lester Young , Tony Bennett with the Count Basie Orchestra , Gerry Mulligan / Mel Tormé , John Pizzarelli , Humphrey Lyttelton , Bucky Pizzarelli , Dave McKenna and Ralph Sutton . In the area of ​​pop and easy listening , the song was covered by Phil Harris , Reg Owen , Jackie Gleason (1956), Bobby Darin , Frank Sinatra (1957) and Eddy Duchin (Columbia 35704). The song was used in the soundtrack of The Big Sleep (1946); Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan sang and danced to the song in the music film The Band Wagon (1953).

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs - 100 Years of American Popular Music - The Stories of the Creators and Performers . New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005 ISBN 1-57912-448-8 p. 298
  2. ↑ Philip Furia, Michael L. Lasser: America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley. 2006.
  3. ^ Clifton Webb: Sitting Pretty: The Life and Times of Clifton Webb . 2011.
  4. ↑ For The Little Show , Schwartz and Dietz wrote six other numbers like I've Had a Habit of You , plus songs like Can't We Be Friends? by Kay Swift and Moanin 'Low by Howard Dietz and Ralph Rainger . See Sing for Your Supper: The Broadway Musical in the 1930s by Ethan Mordden. 2015, p. 25.
  5. ^ A b David Lehman: A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs . 2009, p. 127.
  6. ↑ With the singer and pianist Ramona.
  7. ↑ RCA Victor 47-5730 45
  8. ↑ On the album Cuddle Up a Little Closer , RCA Victor, 1959
  9. ^ Luiz Carlos do Nascimento Silva Put Your Dreams Away: A Frank Sinatra Discography . 2000, page 553