Let's Get Away from It All
Let's Get Away from It All is a pop song written by Tom Adair (music) and Matt Dennis (lyrics) and released in 1941. The song is mostly associated with Frank Sinatra .
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In the early 1940s, the band leader Tommy Dorsey had hired the songwriting team Adair and Dennis to write songs for the orchestra and their band vocalists; during this time u. a. the pop songs Viotets in Your Furs , Everything Happens to Me , The Night We Called It a Day and Let's Get Away from It All , which were written over the phone over the course of an afternoon. The song in the song form AABA has 32 bars. Tommy Dorsey played the song with his orchestra in a long double version (for the A and B sides of the 78 Victor 27377) in which all the band vocalists, namelyJo Stafford , Frank Sinatra and Connie Haines along with the vocal septet The Pied Pipers and some instrumental soloists such as Ziggy Elman were featured.
Further first recordings and later cover versions
Other musicians who covered the song back in 1941 included the Woody Herman and His Orchestra (with Muriel Lane, vocals), Gene Krupa and His Orchestra (with Anita O'Day ), Fats Waller , Raymond Scott (with Gloria Hart, Vocals) and Teddy Powell . Sinatra recorded the song u. a. again for his Capitol album Come Fly With Me (1958).
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 88 (as of 2016) cover versions of the song in the field of jazz . a. from 1948 by Al Cohn , Billy Taylor , Helen O'Connell , Charlie Mariano , Matt Dennis , Dick Sutton , André Previn , JJ Johnson / Kai Winding , Herbie Mann / Sam Most , Bobby Troup , Paul Desmond / Don Elliott , Jackie Cain , Ira Sullivan / Sandy Mosse , Dick Hyman , Jimmy Rowles and Ben Sidran . Also, Rosemary Clooney , Della Reese and Diana Ross & The Supremes coverten the song.
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 359431402