Will you still be mine?

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Will you still be mine? is a pop song written by Matt Dennis (music) and Tom Adair (text) and released in 1940. Little known at the time of its creation, it became a widely played jazz title from the 1950s onwards.

background

The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra recorded the song on February 17, 1941 with the band singer Connie Haines ; The session was arranged by Axel Stordahl . Because of the recording ban , the record (Victor 27421) could not appear until 1944. For Connie Haines, however, this had the advantage that she was much better known in the United States at the time of the recording. On November 25, 1944, Dorsey and Haines reached # 29 on the US charts with the song for a week.

Also in 1941 he was covered by the swing orchestras of Bob Crosby (with Liz Tilton ), Harry James (with Helen Forrest ) and Frankie Masters (with Phyllis Myles , Okeh 6232). From the early 1950s, numerous modern jazz musicians took over Will You Still Be Mine? in their repertoire; recordings were made a. a. by Ray Brown , Benny Carter , Miles Davis ( The Musings of Miles (with Sonny Rollins ), 1955), Buddy DeFranco , Tal Farlow , Erroll Garner , Ahmad Jamal , Pete Jolly , Mundell Lowe , Red Mitchell , Oscar Peterson , Sonny Rollins ( Freedom Suite , 1958), Pete Rugolo , Billy Taylor, and Cal Tjader ; Matt Dennis himself, Buddy Greco and Ann Richards also played other vocal versions of the song. The discographer Tom Lord lists 189 cover versions of the song (as of 2016). Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney sang Will You Still Be Mine , accompanied by the Buddy Cole Trio, their joint CBS show. Will you still be mine? also found use in the soundtrack of the Woody Allen films Celebrity (1998) and Melinda and Melinda (2004).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basic information at Jazzstandards.com
  2. ^ A b Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
  3. ^ B-side of the 78s was Yes Indeed from the same recording session; the singers here were Jo Stafford and Sy Oliver .
  4. ↑ Colin Bratkovich: Just Remember This . 2004, p. 392
  5. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online), accessed December 6, 2016
  6. ↑ Okeh Records Numbers 6000-6500 (1940-41) at 78discography
  7. ^ Adam Harvey: The Soundtracks of Woody Allen: A Complete Guide to the Songs and Music in Every Film, 1969-2005 , 2007.