do you have a favorite all time rendition? ruclips.net/video/GNpoSp9WgGg/видео.html Bear in mind that when we talk about the classic big bands, in periods like the 1930s, they played show after show all day for dancers. That's what you hear when you play a Benny Goodman album from that period -- they played 6 hours a day. You did a really good job.
Hi! Thanks so much for the kind words! It means a lot to me. Ella is a classic. :) I also like Peggy Lee's version - her voice is silky smooth, and she makes it sound so easy. ruclips.net/video/iu9qnW4TUVg/видео.htmlsi=VIxuJpGYuibQsPk3
@@katlimusic I love Peggy Lee and I love her take on this song. I think Sinatra loved to sing 'See the Light' too because he could really swing it and because the lyrical theme is so similar to the song that first put him over the top, "Oh Look at Me Now." There is a RUclips video/audio put up by James Mahoney of Sinatra singing 'Light' on a radio show in 1945 when he was 29 or 30. It's good but very cool is that it is followed by him singing a duet with Sy Oliver by a song that Oliver wrote & arranged called "Yes Indeed." I don't know if there were many songs before "Yes Indeed" that brought that Mahalia Jackson vibe into pop music--but there were many after from the likes of Sam Cooke and Ray Charles. (Predictably, Ray Charles covered it.) I'm just mentioning it because maybe you'll like singing it and your audience will get a kick out of it as well, especially if you can do it as a duet. The singer Jo Stafford also covered it. She was one of the most awesome singers ever, I'm sorry to use the phrase 'most awesome' but it really applies in this case because she was so mind-melting. So if you never heard the name, check out "You Belong to Me" or "Walking My Baby Back Home" or anything by her pre 1960.
@@doobeedoo2 Appreciate you sharing that! Jazz is a never ending path of discovery, I find, and I'm always happy to find new songs or arrangements to sing. I'm not very familiar with Jo Stafford, but after listening to "You Belong to Me," I can see why she was so popular! :)
@@katlimusic In Los Angeles you have KJZZ and on Sunday mornings that station has two great shows. One is called Swingtime with Chuck Southcott and the other is the Jerry Sharell show. I am in Miami at the moment and because KJZZ does not put the Sharell show on their website for streaming, I feel compelled to make sure I am in a place where I can pay attention. Jerry is 84; the show might not be around for much longer! (Right now Jerry just played Ella's "A Tisket A Tasket" fast tempo live version.) However, I have a question. Do you think if there was a big band night in Los Angeles once a week at a venue with plenty of space for dancing that people might come out to lindy hop in the way they did for swing at the Derby in the Swingers movie period? You can check out Ella Fitzgerald's "Rock it with Me" and "St Louis Blues" with the Chick Webb Orchestra on RUclips for the sound I am talking about and there is a very nice short on youtube about the Battle of the Bands at the Savoy, when Benny Goodman battled Chick Webb in Harlem at the Savoy. The song "Stompin' at the Savoy" is about dancing at the Savoy. The original version by Chuck Webb really gives the feeling of how raucous the music was at that time. Later on, like 20 yrs later, Ella recorded it with lyrics but that is a very polite, subdued version for the more polite swing dancing of that period. I would just love to know if LA would eventually catch on to a Chick Webb type lindy hop night for all ages.
@@katlimusic I think "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" is a song that has nice parts for the singer and players and has a lyric that people can relate to. RUclips shows us a 'before jazz' version by Gene Lockhart, but it soon became a jazz standard and then it became a still-swinging country standard, a hit for Les Paul and Mary Ford. Which shows how close those genres once were. ruclips.net/video/TI3r7QyPspQ/видео.html&start_radio=1&rv=7vvZTpaAtbA
Fantastic singing voice!
@@Daniel-nr6iw Thank you so much!
do you have a favorite all time rendition? ruclips.net/video/GNpoSp9WgGg/видео.html Bear in mind that when we talk about the classic big bands, in periods like the 1930s, they played show after show all day for dancers. That's what you hear when you play a Benny Goodman album from that period -- they played 6 hours a day. You did a really good job.
Hi! Thanks so much for the kind words! It means a lot to me.
Ella is a classic. :) I also like Peggy Lee's version - her voice is silky smooth, and she makes it sound so easy. ruclips.net/video/iu9qnW4TUVg/видео.htmlsi=VIxuJpGYuibQsPk3
@@katlimusic I love Peggy Lee and I love her take on this song. I think Sinatra loved to sing 'See the Light' too because he could really swing it and because the lyrical theme is so similar to the song that first put him over the top, "Oh Look at Me Now." There is a RUclips video/audio put up by James Mahoney of Sinatra singing 'Light' on a radio show in 1945 when he was 29 or 30. It's good but very cool is that it is followed by him singing a duet with Sy Oliver by a song that Oliver wrote & arranged called "Yes Indeed." I don't know if there were many songs before "Yes Indeed" that brought that Mahalia Jackson vibe into pop music--but there were many after from the likes of Sam Cooke and Ray Charles. (Predictably, Ray Charles covered it.) I'm just mentioning it because maybe you'll like singing it and your audience will get a kick out of it as well, especially if you can do it as a duet. The singer Jo Stafford also covered it. She was one of the most awesome singers ever, I'm sorry to use the phrase 'most awesome' but it really applies in this case because she was so mind-melting. So if you never heard the name, check out "You Belong to Me" or "Walking My Baby Back Home" or anything by her pre 1960.
@@doobeedoo2 Appreciate you sharing that! Jazz is a never ending path of discovery, I find, and I'm always happy to find new songs or arrangements to sing.
I'm not very familiar with Jo Stafford, but after listening to "You Belong to Me," I can see why she was so popular! :)
@@katlimusic In Los Angeles you have KJZZ and on Sunday mornings that station has two great shows. One is called Swingtime with Chuck Southcott and the other is the Jerry Sharell show. I am in Miami at the moment and because KJZZ does not put the Sharell show on their website for streaming, I feel compelled to make sure I am in a place where I can pay attention. Jerry is 84; the show might not be around for much longer! (Right now Jerry just played Ella's "A Tisket A Tasket" fast tempo live version.) However, I have a question. Do you think if there was a big band night in Los Angeles once a week at a venue with plenty of space for dancing that people might come out to lindy hop in the way they did for swing at the Derby in the Swingers movie period? You can check out Ella Fitzgerald's "Rock it with Me" and "St Louis Blues" with the Chick Webb Orchestra on RUclips for the sound I am talking about and there is a very nice short on youtube about the Battle of the Bands at the Savoy, when Benny Goodman battled Chick Webb in Harlem at the Savoy. The song "Stompin' at the Savoy" is about dancing at the Savoy. The original version by Chuck Webb really gives the feeling of how raucous the music was at that time. Later on, like 20 yrs later, Ella recorded it with lyrics but that is a very polite, subdued version for the more polite swing dancing of that period. I would just love to know if LA would eventually catch on to a Chick Webb type lindy hop night for all ages.
@@katlimusic I think "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" is a song that has nice parts for the singer and players and has a lyric that people can relate to. RUclips shows us a 'before jazz' version by Gene Lockhart, but it soon became a jazz standard and then it became a still-swinging country standard, a hit for Les Paul and Mary Ford. Which shows how close those genres once were. ruclips.net/video/TI3r7QyPspQ/видео.html&start_radio=1&rv=7vvZTpaAtbA