Darn That Dream

Darn That Dream is a composition by Jimmy Van Heusen, with text by Eddie DeLange from the year 1939.

Darn That Dream is a swing ballad with 32 bars in the form AABA. The song follows the simple AABA, but builds on a difficult to singing melody and chromatic harmony.

History of the song

The ballad was written for the Broadway musical Swingin ' the Dream, which is a musical, " swinging " version of William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream ( Midsummer Night's Dream ). There, the song appeared on several occasions. In the premiere, he was by Louis Armstrong ( as a bottom ), Maxine Sullivan (as Tatiana, the Fairy Queen ), Bill Bailey and the three elves, Dorothy Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge and Etta Jones, accompanied by the Benny Goodman Orchestra, sung. The show was very expensive because of the star cast and disappeared after only 13 performances, because they are not economically wore itself. But Goodman took the title in the repertoire and played it as a disk. Before long, there was the potential of the piece three times came in the hit parade 1940:

• Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (1940, vocal: Mildred Bailey, # 1)
• Blue Barron and His Orchestra (1940, vocals Russ Carlyle, # 14)
• Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (1940, vocals: Anita Boyer, # 16)

More recordings followed by Doris Day and Billie Holiday ( 1940), and soon by Dinah Washington

Career in jazz

At a jazz standard, the song at the latest in 1950 by recording with Kenny Hagood and the Metronome All Stars, was better known as Miles Davis Nonet ( re-released on the album Birth of the Cool ). Less the voice of Hagood, of not much different interpreted the song, according to Hans -Jürgen Schaal as Billy Eckstine would have done, highlights the potential of the song, but the arrangement of Gerry Mulligan. Then it also played Dave Amram and - in an arrangement by Jimmy Heath - Chet Baker. Furthermore, it was also recorded by pianists such as George Shearing, Erroll Garner, Thelonious Monk, Ahmad Jamal, Red Richards, Bill Evans Rein de Graaff or. According to a recording of the Quintet by Clifford Brown and Max Roach 1954, the piece a "must " for musicians such as Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley and Dexter Gordon was. 1992 Paul Motian played him in with his Electric Bebop band.