The Breeze and I.

Label of the single The Breeze and I by Caterina Valente, 1955

The Breeze and I is a composition by Ernesto Lecuona . It's a wistful song about the pain of someone abandoned.

The Breeze and I is based on the piece Andalucía , which is part of the piano suite Andalucía (also Suite Española ) by Ernesto Lecuona, composed around 1930 . The Spanish text for Andalucía is by Emilio de Torre, the English text for The Breeze and I was written by Al Stillman in 1940 for Jimmy Dorsey .

The best-known versions of the song come from the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (sung by Bob Eberly ) from 1940 and from Caterina Valente from 1955. Valentes' version reached number eight in the US and number five on the British charts and sold over the world a million times.

The Dorsey version also made the composition popular in jazz and became a jazz standard . She was also recorded by Gene Ammons , Art Blakey , Sonny Clark , Xavier Cugat , Barry Harris , Coleman Hawkins , Bert Kaempfert , Shelly Manne , Mantovani , Wes Montgomery , Joe Pass , Art Pepper , Jimmy Rowles , The Shadows and Martin Böttcher with Siegfried Schwab (guitar).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ AllMusic Guide Andalucía, suite for piano (Suite Española) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 25, 2007@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / wc05.allmusic.com

^ Space Age Pop Music Page The Lecuona Song , accessed November 25, 2007

↑ The single of the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with the catalog number Decca 3150 reached number 2 in the US singles charts, compare: Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Records 1940-1955 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, 1973, p. 20

↑ Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 by Joel Whitburn , Record Research 2007, ISBN 978-0-89820-172-7 .

^ Nugent, Stephen / Fowler, Anne / Fowler, Pete: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974 . In: Gillett, Charlie / Frith, Simon (eds.): Rock File 4 . Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, 1976, p. 348

Jump up ↑ Joseph Murrells: The Book of Golden Discs: The Records That Sold a Million . 2nd Edition. Limp Edition, London 1978, ISBN 0-214-20512-6 , pp. 77 .

[1] AllMusic Guide Andalucía, suite for piano (Suite Española) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 25, 2007@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / wc05.allmusic.com

[2] Space Age Pop Music Page The Lecuona Song , accessed November 25, 2007

[3] The single of the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with the catalog number Decca 3150 reached number 2 in the US singles charts, compare: Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Records 1940-1955 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, 1973, p. 20

[4] Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 by Joel Whitburn , Record Research 2007, ISBN 978-0-89820-172-7 .

[5] Nugent, Stephen / Fowler, Anne / Fowler, Pete: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974 . In: Gillett, Charlie / Frith, Simon (eds.): Rock File 4 . Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, 1976, p. 348

[6] Jump up ↑ Joseph Murrells: The Book of Golden Discs: The Records That Sold a Million . 2nd Edition. Limp Edition, London 1978, ISBN 0-214-20512-6 , pp. 77 .