I Fall in Love Too Easily
I Fall in Love Too Easily is a pop song by Jule Styne of (music) and Sammy Cahn ( text ) written and published in 1944.
Use of the song in the film
The song was first described by Frank Sinatra in the movie musical Holiday in Hollywood (directed by George Sidney ) sung. I Fall in Love Too Easily has been included in an arrangement by Axel Stordahl for the film On September 5, 1944. The orchestra led George Stoll.
The song was in the film for use as Sinatra played as a sailor on leave at the Hollywood Bowl piano and thereby reflected the sudden infatuation with a ( Kathryn Grayson played ) singer. The singer laments that he falls in love too easily. For other people, the love just leave or can begin, it is easy to take them, but for him that love is the favorite game.
The film won with his film music Academy Award; I Fall in Love Too Easily was also nominated for Best Song for an Oscar, finally the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were given for It Might as Well Be Spring.
More versions
On December 1, 1944 Sinatra recorded the song with Axel Stordahl and his orchestra for Columbia Records; the piano solo played Dave Mann. (Posted been this recording on Columbia 36830 and the B- side of the shellac record was the song I Begged Her). ( Arrangement: Turk Van Lake ) Already in 1945 the song by Georgie Auld and His Orchestra was directed by Mel Tormé / Eugenie Baird gecovert; the Tormé version reached different than that of Sinatra the charts (# 17).
I Fall in Love Too Easily was in the following years to a frequently played jazz standard; he was admitted had, inter alia, by Chet Baker, Royce Campbell, Ted Heath, Johnny Hartman, Ralph Towner, Anita O'Day, Diane Schuur, Keith Jarrett and Fred Hersch .. Miles Davis song several years in his live repertoire to listen to the recordings of the Complete Live at the Plugged nickel 1965, Live in Europe 1967: the Bootleg Series Vol 1 and Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West ( 1970). Tom Lord lists 448 cover versions of the song in the field of jazz.