🎶Coffee~Break~Jazz🎶~Join us╰▶Jazz Coffee💕 Happy Birthday John Hicks💞 My Foolish Heart~John Hicks Trio My Foolish Heart is a popular song that was published in 1949. The music was composed by Victor Young and the lyric was written by Ned Washington. The song was introduced by the singer Martha Mears in the 1949 film of the same name. The song failed to escape critics general laceration of the film. Time wrote in its review that nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track.Nevertheless, the song was nominated for an Oscar, losing out to Baby, Its Cold Outside by Frank Loesser. The song was also a popular success, with two recordings of the song listed among the top 30 on the Billboard charts in 1950. Gordon Jenkinss recording of My Foolish Heart, Sandy Evans, vocal, reached the top ten on the charts. However, Billy Eckstines version became a million seller, spending 19 weeks on the charts and peaking at number six. Later recordings were made of this standard by numerous artists, including the Arbors, Tony Bennett, Margaret Whiting, Dion & The Belmonts, Bill Evans, Astrud Gilberto, Jan and Dean, Tom Jones, Ben E. King, Al Martino, Carmen McRae, Frank Sinatra, the Teddy Bears, Mel Tormé, The Demensions (charting at #95), the Roommates, Oscar Peterson with Nelson Riddle, Joe Williams with George Shearing, and the Hi-Los with Clare Fischer. More recently, My Foolish Heart has been covered by Elkie Brooks, Roberta Flack, Susannah McCorkle, pianists Liz Story and Keith Jarrett, guitarists John McLaughlin and John Abercrombie, Charlie Hadens Quartet West, singers Kurt Elling, Chet Baker, Al Jarreau, Cris Barber, Erasure, Jane Monheit, Jacqui Dankworth and Ann Hampton Callaway, a capella quartet The Idea of North, and the Ska band The Positive Downside. The original recording was in G major with stringed instruments. Frank Sinatra sang the song in A flat major and Bill Evans performed it in B flat major. Bill Evans performed it in A major on his album Waltz for Debby. Lyrics: The scene is set for dreaming, loves knocking at the door but oh my heart, Im reluctant to start, for weve been fooled before. The night is like a lovely tune, beware, my foolish heart. How white the ever constant moon, take care, my foolish heart. Theres a line between love and fascination, thats hard to see on an evening such as this, for they both give the very same sensation when youre lost in the magic of a kiss. Your lips are much too close to mine, beware, my foolish heart, but should our eager lips combine, then let the fire start, for this time, it isnt fascination or a dream that will fade and fall apart, its love.. This time its love, my foolish heart... youtu.be/u_xy1sjKyZc
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 16:16:48 +0000
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