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You've Changed is a pop song by Carl T. Fischer (music) and Bill Carey (lyrics) that was released in 1942.
The ballad You've Changed is in the song form A-A'-B-A ', and the refrain in E flat major has a descending chromatic-melodic line. The song was first recorded in October 1941 for Columbia Records by the Harry James Orchestra with the vocals of Dick Haymes and gave Haymes in 1948 a medium chart success in the United States. The song became known mainly through the interpretations of Nat King Cole (1947), Billie Holiday (1958) and Sarah Vaughan (1960). Andrian Kreye mentions that especially Billie Holiday in her version on the LP Lady in Satin "suddenly discovered abysses in the song" and was able to "dig out a manifesto of hopelessness out of disappointment over a cold love".
From the mid-1940s onwards, numerous cover versions of the song were made, including a. also by Billy Eckstine , Ella Fitzgerald , Jackie Gleason , Etta James , Dakota Staton and Monica Zetterlund . Instrumental versions took off in the 1960s a. a. also Ruby Braff , Dexter Gordon , Johnny Griffin , Bobby Hackett , Coleman Hawkins , Johnny Hodges , Yusef Lateef , Ramsey Lewis and Buddy Rich . The song was also interpreted by Marvin Gaye (1964), Diana Ross ( Lady Sings the Blues , 1972), Joni Mitchell ( Both Sides Now , 2000) and by George Michael on his album Songs from the Last Century (1999).
The Fischer Carey song is not to be confused with You've Changed by Edward Heyman , Tony Martin and Victor Young , which was written for the film The Fabulous Senorita (1952) and later and was written by others. a. interpreted by Chet Baker and Hamiet Bluiett .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl T. Fischer (1912–1954), of Indian descent, worked as a pianist in Los Angeles and was a friend and accompanist of Frankie Laine . Fischer also wrote the songs We'll Be Together Again and It Started All Over Again and the orchestral suite Reflections of an Indian Boy . See Gene Lees : Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White , 2009, p. 40
- ↑ Information at Jazzstandards.com
- ^ A b c Andrian Kreye : The misunderstanding of Frank Sinatra in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ^ Marvin E. Paymer, Don E. Post: Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs . 1999, p. 456
- ^ Billboard April 10, 1948
- ↑ Holiday first presented the song on July 10, 1958 in the TV show Art Ford Jazz Party ; Billie Holiday was accompanied by Buck Clayton (tp), Tyree Glenn (tb), Hank D'Amico (cl), Georgie Auld (ts), Mal Waldron (p), Harry Sheppard (vib), Mary Osborne (e-git) , Vinnie Burke (b), Osie Johnson (dr).
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 4, 2014)
- ^ Alan Gevinson: Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films , 1997, p. 321
- ↑ http://jazz-jazz.ru/?category=download&altname=chet_baker__you_cant_go_home_again_19771
- ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Hamiet-Bluiett-Live-At-The-Village-Vanguard-Ballads-And-Blues/release/1309200