Commodore

COMMODORE RECORDS

  • Commodore は Milt Gabler (1911.5.20 – 2011.7.20) により創設された。
  • Milt の父は Commodore Radio Corp.,を運営していた。 これはラヂオやスピーカーや電器部品の販売店。
  • 1926年15歳の Milt はこの店を手伝いながらレコードの販売を思いつき78rpm のレコードをストックし始めた。
  • 1934年には当地で Commodore Music Shop を立ち上げる。
    彼の思惑は当たり、1年後には147, 144 and 136 E. 42nd Stと拡張し、 間口は9フィートになった。
    やがて、46 West 52nd St.に支店をNJに卸部門を増設。 ここは当時ミュージシャン達が盛んにジャムっていた地域で、 何かと便利だった。
  • 1938年、史上初のジャズ専門レーベル Commodore Records を設立し、レコードを発売する。
  • Blue Note の Alfred Lion が軍役についていた1941年から1943年までの 約2年半、 Francis Wolff は Commodore Records の一角を間借りして Blue Noteの営業を続けた。

    Commodore Music ShopRosemary Clooney

    (店内の写真、画像左が Milt Gabler )

    (店の前でRosemary Clooney,1950年)


Album CR-2

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  • CR-2として4枚を収納するアルバム、Deccaもディストリビュートした。

Classic In Seriesが納められたものも見かけるが、このAlbum CR-2はStarmaker Series(再発盤) 7514~17までの4枚8曲が納められたものと思われる。
(ラベルにCR-2, 8-1 ~8までの記載がある)

  • 8-1 (7514) Yesterdays
    8-2 (7514) I Got A Right To Sing The Blues
    8-3 (7515) I’ll Be Seeing You
    8-4 (7515) I’ll Get By
    8-5 (7516) I Cover The Waterfront
    8-6 (7516) Lover Come Back To Me
    8-7 (7517) She’s Funny That Way
    8-8 (7517) How Am I To Know

YesterdaysI Got A Right To Sing The BluesI'll Be Seeing YouI'll Get ByI Cover The WaterfrontLover Come Back To MeShe's Funny That WayHow Am I To Know


Labelの種類

Commodore盤は大別すると2種類ある

  • Classics In Swing
  • Starmaker Series(主に再発盤)

Classics In Swingには出版時期により3種類、製法で2種類ある。

  • 46West 52nd Street, New York City
  • 136East 42nd Street New York City
  • Commodore Records Co., Inc., NY., U.S.A.
    (判別はラベル8時-4時の記載が異なる)

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  • Columbia‘s Laminate Press
  • それ以外の製法
    (判別は表面のツヤでわかるが、番号の字体が異なる)

Columbia's Laminate Press
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  • 左がラミネート・プレス


 Commodore Original List

Disc No. Title MX No. Rec.Date T/O,R/O
526 Strange Fruit WP24403-B 390420 250/-8.5
Fine And Mellow WP24405-A 390420 250/-8.5
527 I Got A Right To Sing The Blues WP24406-B 390420 250/-8.5
Yesterdays WP24404-A 390420 250/-8.5
553 I’ll Be Seeing You A4750-1 440401 250/-16
I’ll Get By A4744-1 440325 250/-16
559 I Cover The Waterfront A4745-2 440325 250/-16
Lover Come Back To Me A4755-2 440408 250/-16
569 She’s Funny That Way A4754-2 440408 250/-16
How Am I To Know A4742-3 440325 250/-16
585 I’m Yours A4751-1 440401 250/-16
My Old Flame A4743-1 440325 250/-16
614 I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues) A4756-2 440408 250/-16
On The Sunny Side Of The Street A4757-1 440408 250/-16
7518 My Old Flame A4743-3 440325 250/-16
7519 I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues) A4756-3 440408 250/-16
7520 Embraceable You A4752-2 440401 250/-16
As Time Goes By A4753-1 440401 250/-16
  • Although made for Milt Gabler’s COMMODORE label these recordings took place at the ARC studios and were allocated matrices numbers in their New York series.


526 Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit

Lewis Allan
20th, April 1939
WP24403-B


Southern trees bear a strange fruit

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root

Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant South

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth

Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck

For the rain to gather for the wind to suck

For the sun to rot for the tree to drop

Here is a strange and bitter crop

  • 当時高校教師だったLewis Allanの1939年の作品。
    曲もAllanが大まかなものを書いて、アレンジャーのDanny Mendelsohn が仕上げたものと思われる。
    生粋のエンターテイナーであったBillieはこの曲を受け取ったとき、実際にはどうしていいか分からなかったようだ。彼女は詩的な表現「Pastoral」という言葉の意味すらも理解できなかったそうだ。
    Barney Josephsonが開店したカフェ・ソサエティでセットの最後にこの曲を唄った。
    歌詞や音程が乱れることはなかったが、涙をこぼして熱唱する彼女に聴衆は大いに感動し、大評判となった。
    伝説の黒人オペラ歌手マリアン・アンダーソンでさえ当時、記事は出ても写真が雑誌に載ることはなかった。カフェ・ソサエティでのBillieの成功にTIMEが初めて黒人の彼女の写真と歌詞を掲載した。
    クラブ側もこの曲が始まると全ての照明を消して、飲食のサービスを一切停止し、彼女にピン・スポットの照明だけを当てるという演出をした。
  • 当時BillieはColumbiaと契約していたが、大手レコード会社の幹部は人種差別を批判するこの歌をレコード化することに難色を示した。クラブの近所でCommodore Music Shopを経営していたMilt Gablerが「Columbiaの承諾を得てくればレコードにしてあげよう」と彼女に提案し、Billieが直接Columbiaから承諾を得てきた。慣例で2枚4曲の承諾を得たGablerはStrange FruitをFine and Mellowとカップリングで発売にこぎ付けた。当初ジュークボックスでFine and Mellowがヒットしたことも幸いし、このレコードは15,000枚という当時としては大ヒットを記録した。
    1939年7月22日の人気チャートで16位となる。
  • Billie はこの曲の成功により、これ以降どの曲も「葬式の哀悼歌」のようなスロー・テンポな歌い方ばかりになってしまったと John Hammond は嘆いている。
  • 結婚には至らなかったが、Billie自らが語る「生涯に本当に愛した3人の男」とは幼なじみのMarion Scot, Basie楽団のギタリストFreddie Green、そして、この盤のピアノ伴奏者Sonny Whiteだったそうだ。
  • PERSONNEL
    Frankie Newton tp; Tab Smith as &ss; Kenneth Hollon, Stanley Payne ts; Sonny White p; Jimmy McLin g; John Williams b; Eddie Dougherty ds; Billie Holiday vc;
    Brunswick World Broadcast Studio
    YouTube

526 Fine And Mellow

Fine And Mellow

Billie Holiday
20th, April 1939
WP24405-A


My man don’t love me

Treats me oh so mean

My man he don’t love me

Treats me awfully (awful mean)

He’s the lowest man

That I’ve ever seen

He wears high draped pants

Stripes are really yellow

He wears high draped pants

Stripes are really yellow
But when he starts in to love me

He’s so fine and mellow

Love will make you drink and gamble

Make you stay out all night long

Love will make you drink and gamble

Make you stay out all night long
Love will make you do things

That you know is wrong

But if you treat me right baby

I’ll stay home every day

If you treat me right baby

I’ll stay home every day
But you’re so mean to me baby

I know you’re gonna drive me away

Love is just like a faucet

It turns off and on
Love is like a faucet

It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think it’s on baby

It has turned off and gone

  • Columbiaから4曲の録音の権利を得たMilt Gablerはブルーズを一曲とりたかった。
    Miltは録音の前日、カフェ・ソサエティの控え室にBillieを訪ね、彼女の書いた歌詞を検討していた。
    Billie のメモにはありきたりの ‘I love my man’ といった類の語句が並んでいた。Miltが「High-drape pants, Stripes are really yellow/ Kisses me, makes me really mellow」という歌詞の肝を思いついた。「Fine and Mellow」というタイトルも彼の発案だった。レコードはジュークボックス市場で人気曲となり翌年Deccaが権利を買いに来た。Miltは慌てて、レコードから採譜して、自分がほとんど創ったにもかかわらず、Billie の作詞作曲として著作権登録した。
  • PERSONNEL
    Frankie Newton tp; Tab Smith as &ss; Kenneth Hollon, Stanley Payne ts; Sonny White p; Jimmy McLin g; John Williams b; Eddie Dougherty ds; Billie Holiday vc;
    YouTube


527 I Got A Right To Sing The Blues

I Got A Right To Sing The Blues

Lyrics : Ted Koehler
Music : Harold Arlen 
20th, April 1939
WP24406-B


I gotta right to sing the blues

I gotta right to moan and sigh

I gotta right to sit and cry

Down around the river

A certain man in this old town

Keeps draggin’ my poor heart around

All I see for me is misery

I gotta right to sing the blues

I gotta right to moan and sigh

Right to sit and cry

Down around the river

Soon that deep blue sea

Will be callin’ me

It must be love say what you choose

I gotta right to sing the blues

(bridge)

I gotta right to sing the blues

Gotta right to moan and cry

Gotta right to sit and sigh

Down around the river

Soon that deep blue sea

Will be callin’ me

It must be love say what you choose

I gotta right to sing the blues
There’s nothing left for me

I’m full of misery

I gotta right to sing the blues

  • 1932年のレヴュー「Earl Carroll Vanities」の挿入歌。
    Billieはミディアム・テンポで「私にはブルーズを唄う権利があるわ」とゆったりと唄っている。
  • PERSONNEL
    Frankie Newton tp; Tab Smith as &ss; Kenneth Hollon, Stanley Payne ts; Sonny White p; Jimmy McLin g; John Williams b; Eddie Dougherty ds; Billie Holiday vc;
    YouTube


527 Yesterdays

Yesterdays

Lyrics : Otto Harbach
Music : Jerome Kern
20th, April 1939
WP24404-A


Yesterdays

Yesterdays

Days I knew as happy sweet

Sequestered days

Olden days

Golden days

Days of mad romance and love

Then gay youth was mine

Truth was mine

Joyous free and flaming life

Then sooth was mine

Sad am I

Glad am I

For today I’m dreamin’ of

Yesterdays
(2nd section, double-time)
Yesterdays

Yesterdays

Days I knew as happy sweet

Sequestered days

Olden days

Golden days

Days of mad romance and love

For then gay youth was mine

Truth was mine

Joyous free and flaming life

Then sooth was mine

Sad am I

Glad am I

For today I’m dreamin’ of

Yesterdays
Yesterdays

  • 1933年のミュージカル「Roberta」の挿入歌。
    「Yestedays」は過ぎ去りし過去の日々のことを意味し、簡単な歌詞が巧みに韻を踏みながら美しいメロディに乗り進行する。
  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday vc. with Kenneth Hollon and rhythm section only
    YouTube


553 I’ll Be Seeing You

I'll Be Seeing You

Lyrics : Irving Kahal
Music : Sammy Fain
1st, April 1944
A4750-1


I’ll be seeing you

In all the old familiar places

That this heart of mine embraces

All day through

In that small café

The park across the way

The children’s carousel

The chestnut trees

The wishing well

I’ll be seeing you

In every lovely summer’s day

In everything that’s light and gay

I’ll always think of you that way

I’ll find you in the morning sun

And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon

But I’ll be seeing you

I’ll be seeing you

In every lovely summer’s day

In everything that’s light and gay

I’ll always think of you that way

I’ll find you in the morning sun

And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon

But I’ll be seeing you

  • 1938年のミュージカル「Right This Way」に使用された曲。
    1944年の戦争時に同名のUA映画主題歌として出征した恋人の不在感を表現している雰囲気でヒットした。
    Billieはここで、ねばるようなスローバラードに仕上げている。
    評論家の油井正一先生に「想わず落涙する」といわせた名歌唱である。
  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday acc. by Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra
    YouTube


553 I’ll Get By

I'll Get By

Lyrics : Roy Turk 
Music :  Fred E. Ahlert
25th, March 1944
A4744-1


I’ll get by

As long as I have you

Though there’ll be rain

And darkness too

I’ll not complain

I’ll laugh it’s true
Poverty

May come to me that’s true

But what care I 
I’ll get by

As long as I have you

(bridge)

I’ll get by

As long as I have you

Though there’ll be rain

And darkness too

I’ll not complain

I’ll laugh it’s true
Poverty

May come to me that’s true

But what care I

I’ll get by

As long as I have you

  • Commodoreへの2回目の吹き込みで Eddie Heywood のコンボは絶好調。
    Billie も多少テクニックに走るきらいはあるものの絶頂期。
    Downbeat 誌はかならずも良い評価は与えなかった。
  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday vc. with Doc Cheatham tp; Lem Davis as; Vic Dickenson tb; Eddie Heywood p; Teddy Walters g: John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
    YouTube


559 I Cover The Waterfront

I Cover The Waterfront

Lyrics : Edward Heyman
Music : Johnny W. Green
25th, March 1944
A4745-2


I cover the waterfront

In search of my love

And I’m covered

By a starlit sky above
Here am I

Patiently waiting

Hoping and longing

Oh how I yearn

Where are you

Have you forgotten

Will you remember

Will you return
I cover the waterfront

I’m watching the sea

Will the one I love

Be coming back to me
Here am I

Patiently waiting

Hoping and longing

Oh how I yearn

Where are you

Have you forgotten

Will you remember

Will you return
I cover the waterfront

I’m watching the sea

Will the one I love

Be coming back to me
Will the one I love

Be coming back to me

  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday vc. with Doc Cheatham tp; Lem Davis as; Vic Dickenson tb; Eddie Heywood p; Teddy Walters g: John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
    YouTube


559 Lover Come Back To Me

Lover Come Back To Me

Lyrics : Oscar Hammerstein II
Music : Sigmund Romberg
8th, April 1944
A4755-2


The sky was blue

And high above

The moon was new

And so was love

This eager heart of mine was singing

Lover where can you be

You came at last
Love had its day

That day is past

You’ve gone away

This aching heart of mine is singing

Lover come back to me!

When I remember every little thing

You used to do

I’m so lonely

Every road I walk along

I walk along with you

No wonder I am lonely

The sky is blue

The night is cold

The moon is new

But love is old

And while I’m waiting here

This heart of mine is singing

Lover come back to me!

When I remember every little thing

You used to do

I grow lonely

Every road I walk along

I walk along with you

No wonder I am lonely

The sky is blue

The night is cold

The moon is new

But love is old

And while I’m waiting here

This heart of mine is singing

Lover come back to me!

  • 1928年のオペレッタ「The New Moon」に使用された曲。
    アップテンポで歌うスタンダード曲として定着しているが、この盤でBillieは比較的ゆっくりと唄っている。
    The moon is new, but love is old「月は出たばかりでも恋は終わりかけている」
  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday vc. with Eddie Heywood p; John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
    YouTube


569 She’s Funny That Way

She's Funny That Way

Lyrics: Richard A. Whiting
Music : Neil Moret
8th, April 1944
A4754-2


I’m not much to look at
Nothing to see
Just glad I’m living
And lucky to be
I’ve got a man
Crazy for me
He’ funny that way
I can’t save a dollar
Ain’t worth a cent
He doesn’t holler
He’d live in a tent
I’ve got a man
Crazy for me
He’s funny that way
Though he loves to work and slave
For me every day
He’d be so much better off
If I went away
But why should I leave him
Why should I go
He’d be unhappy
Without me I know
I’ve got that man
Mad about me
He’s funny that way
I can see no other way
And no better plan
End it all and let him go
To some other gal
But I’m only human
A coward at best
I’m more than certain
He’d follow me
West
I’ve got a man
Crazy for me
He’s funny that way

  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday vc. with Eddie Heywood p; John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
    YouTube


569 How Am I To Know

How Am I To Know

Lyrics : Dorothy Parker
Music : Jack King
25th, March 1944
A4742-3


Oh

How am I to know

If it’s really love

That’s found its way here ?

Oh

How am I to know ?

Will it linger on

And leave me then ?

I’ll dare not guess

At this strange happiness

But oh

How am I to know ?

Can it be that love

Has come to stay here ?

  • 1929年の映画「Dynamite」に使われた曲。
    劇作家、評論家、詩人として有名なDorothy Parkerの作詞。
    Jack King (1903-1943)はクラシックの天才ピアニストとして各地でコンサートを行った。
    ここではBillieはゆったりとやや重苦しく唄う。
  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday vc. with Doc Cheatham tp; Lem Davis as; Vic Dickenson tb; Eddie Heywood p; Teddy Walters g: John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
    YouTube


585 I’m Yours

I'm Yours

Lyrics : E.Y. Harburg
Music : Johnny Green
1st, April 1944
A4751-1


Ask the sky above

And ask the earth below

Why I’m so in love

And why I love you so

Couldn’t tell you though I tried dear

Just why I’m yours

When you went away

You left a glowing spark

Trying to be gay as

Whistling in the dark

I am only what you make me

Come take me
I’m yours

How happy

I would be to beg or borrow

For sorrow

With you

Even though I knew

Tomorrow

You’d say we were through

If we drift apart

Then I’ll be lost and lone

Though you use my heart

Just for a steppin’ stone

How can I help dreaming of you

I love you
I’m yours

How happy

I would be to beg or borrow

For sorrow

With you

Even though I knew

Tomorrow

You’d say we were through

If we drift apart

Then I’ll be lost and lone

Though you use my heart

Just for a steppin’ stone

How can I help dreaming of you

I love you

I’m yours

  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday acc. by Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra
    YouTube


585 My Old Flame

My Old Flame

Lyrics & Music : Sam Coslow & Arthur Johnston
25th, March 1944
A4743-1


My old flame

I can’t even think of his name

But it’s funny now and then

How my thoughts go flashing back again

To my old flame
My old flame

My new lovers all seem so tame

For I haven’t met a gent

So magnificent or elegant

As my old flame

I’ve met so many men

With fascinating ways

A fascinating gaze in their eyes

Some who sent me up to the skies

But their attempts at love

Were only imitations of

My old flame

I can’t even think of his name

But I’ll never be the same

Until I discover what became

Of my old flame
I’ve met so many men

With fascinating ways

A fascinating gaze in their eyes

Some who sent me up to the skies

But their attempts at love

Were only imitations of

My old flame

I can’t even think of his name

But I’ll never be the same

Until I discover what became

Of my old flame

  • 1934年の映画「Belle of the Nineties」で使用した曲。
    Arthur Johnaton (1898-1954)は31年にチャップリンの映画「街の灯」の音楽などを書いている。
    「Old Flame」は昔の恋人のこと。
    Billieの雰囲気にぴったりの歌で、ほろ苦く過去の恋愛遍歴を述懐している。
  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday vc. with Doc Cheatham tp; Lem Davis as; Vic Dickenson tb; Eddie Heywood p; Teddy Walters g: John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
    YouTube

614 I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues)

I Love My Man

Billie Holiday
8th, April 1944
A4756-2


I love my man I’m liar if I say I don’t

I love my man I’m liar if I say I don’t
But I’ll quit my man
I’m liar if I say I won’t
I’ve been your slave baby

Ever since I’ve been your babe

I’ve been your slave
Ever since I’ve been your babe

But before I’ll be your dog
I’ll see you in your grave
My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast
Wouldn’t give me no dinner
Squawked about my supper then he put me outdoors
Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes
I didn’t have so many
But I had a long, long ways to go
I ain’t good-looking
And my hair ain’t curls

I ain’t good-looking

And my hair ain’t curls
But my mother, she give me something

It’s going to carry me through this world
Some men like me ‘cause I’m happy
Some ‘cause I’m snappy
Some call me honey
Others think I’ve got money
Some say: Billie,
Baby you’re built for speed
Now if you put that all together
Makes me everything a good man needs

  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday vc. with Eddie Heywood p; John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
    YouTube


614 On The Sunny Side Of The Street

On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Lyrics : Dorothy Fields
Music : Jimmy McHugh
8th, April 1944
A4757-1


Grab your coat and get your hat

Leave your worry on the doorstep

Just direct your feet

To the sunny side of the street
Can’t you hear a pitter-pat

And that happy tune is your step

Life can be so sweet

On the sunny side of the street

I used to walk in the shade

With those blues on parade

But now I’m not afraid

This rover crossed over

If I never have a cent

I’ll be rich as Rockefeller

Going to set my feet

On the sunny side of the street

(bridge)

Grab your coat and get your hat

Leave your worry on the doorstep

Just direct your feet

To the sunny side of the street
Can’t you hear a pitter-pat

And that happy tune is your step

Life can be so sweet

On the sunny side of the street

I used to walk in the shade

With those blues on parade

But now I’m not afraid

This rover crossed over

If I’d never have a cent

I’d be rich as Rockefeller

With gold dust at my feet

On the sunny side of the street

  • 1930年のレヴュー「International Revue」に使用された曲。
    If I never have a cent, I’ll be rich as Rockefeller「一文無しでも気分はロックフェラーのように金持ち」といきたいものだ。

  • PERSONNEL
    Billie Holiday vc. with Eddie Heywood p; John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
    YouTube


7518 My Old Flame

My Old Flame

Lyrics & Music : Sam Coslow & Arthur Johnston
25th, March 1944
A4743-3


My old flame

I can’t even think of his name

But it’s funny now and then

How my thoughts go flashing back again

To my old flame
My old flame

My new lovers all seem so tame

For I haven’t met a gent

So magnificent or elegant

As my old flame

I’ve met so many men

With fascinating ways

A fascinating gaze in their eyes

Some who sent me up to the skies

But their attempts at love

Were only imitations of

My old flame

I can’t even think of his name

But I’ll never be the same

Until I discover what became

Of my old flame
I’ve met so many men

With fascinating ways

A fascinating gaze in their eyes

Some who sent me up to the skies

But their attempts at love

Were only imitations of

My old flame

I can’t even think of his name

But I’ll never be the same

Until I discover what became

Of my old flame

  • ラベルは A4743-1 となっているが、明らかに 585 とは違うテイク。
    Jack Millar 氏の記述通りこちらは A4743-3 で良いと思う。
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    Billie Holiday vc. with Doc Cheatham tp; Lem Davis as; Vic Dickenson tb; Eddie Heywood p; Teddy Walters g: John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
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7519 I Love My Man (Billie’s Blues)

I Love My Man

Billie Holiday
8th, April 1944
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I love my man I’m liar if I say I don’t

I love my man I’m liar if I say I don’t
But I’ll quit my man
I’m liar if I say I won’t
I’ve been your slave baby

Ever since I’ve been your babe

I’ve been your slave
Ever since I’ve been your babe

But before I’ll be your dog
I’ll see you in your grave
My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast
Wouldn’t give me no dinner
Squawked about my supper then he put me outdoors
Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes
I didn’t have so many
But I had a long, long ways to go
I ain’t good-looking
And my hair ain’t curls

I ain’t good-looking

And my hair ain’t curls
But my mother, she give me something

It’s going to carry me through this world
Some men like me ‘cause I’m happy
Some ‘cause I’m snappy
Some call me honey
Others think I’ve got money
Some say: Billie,
Baby you’re built for speed
Now if you put that all together
Makes me everything a good man needs

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    Billie Holiday vc. with Eddie Heywood p; John Simmons b; Sidney Catlett ds;
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7520 Embraceable You

Embraceable You

Lyrics : Ira Gershwin
Music : George Gershwin 
1st, April 1944
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Embrace me

My sweet embraceable you

Embrace me

My irreplaceable you

Just to look at you

My heart grows tipsy in me

You and you alone

Bring out the gypsy in me
I love all

The many charms about you

Above all

I want my arms about you

Don’t be a naughty baby

Come to me

Come to me do
My sweet embraceable you
I love all

The many charms about you

Above all

I want my arms about you

Don’t be a naughty baby

Come to mama

Come to mama do
My sweet embraceable you

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    Billie Holiday acc. by Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra
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7520 As Time Goes By

As Time Goes By

Lyrics & Music : Herman Hupfeld
1st, April 1944
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You must remember this

A kiss is still a kiss

A sigh is just a sigh

The fundamental things apply

As time goes by

And when two lovers woo

They still say I love you

On that you can rely

No matter what the future brings

As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs

Never out of date

Hearts filled with passion

Jealousy and hate

Woman needs man

And man must have his mate

That no one can deny

It’s still the same old story

A fight for love and glory

A case of do or die

Though I will always welcome lovers

As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs

Never out of date

Hearts full with passion
Jealousy and hate

Woman needs man

Man must have his mate

That no one can deny

It’s still the same old story

A fight for love and glory

A case of do or die

Though I will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

  • 1934年の作品。その後映画「カサブランカ」の主題歌として有名になった。
    邦題の「時のすぎゆくままに」は大迷訳として有名。
    訳すなら「時がすぎても」といったところか。
    恋愛はいつの時代でも変わらない、「恋人達の心はいつだって情熱と嫉妬と憎悪で満ちている」女には男が男には女が必要だ。
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    Billie Holiday acc. by Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra
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