These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
The song These Foolish Things ( Remind Me of You ) is a composition by Harry Link and Jack Strachey ( music) with lyrics by Holt Marvell from the year 1936.
Content
The song is a ballad, with 32 (28 ) cycles in the form AABA. The piece has a major characteristic whose motives partially Puccini aria Nessun dorma recalls; the first four bars in the B section are held in minor. In the text, things are enumerated (such as a cigarette with lipstick traces or Klaviergeklimper next door) that are in the memory still connected to the former partner, so that he is always present. The B-segment underpins the specificity of the relationship: " You came, you saw, you conquered me" (which is reminiscent of Julius Caesar's Veni vidi vici commonly used phrase ).
Genesis and performance history
These Foolish Things was first performed in London for the revue "Spread It Around " written and sung by Dorothy Dickson there, but did not take up the title. The song was first recorded in the United States. No fewer than five versions were there 1936 hits, namely by:
- Benny Goodman and his Orchestra ( with vocalist Helen Ward, # 1)
- Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra ( with singer Billie Holiday # 5)
- Nat Brandywynne and His Stork Club Orchestra ( with singer Buddy Clark # 6)
- Carroll Gibbons and His Orchestra (# 8)
- Joe Sanders and His Orchestra (# 17)
Countless other versions of the title were afterwards by the success of the title was added, so by Bing Crosby, Frankie Laine, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Aaron Neville, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, Sammy Davis Jr., Bryan Ferry, Jane Birkin and Rod Stewart. Jean Sablon in 1936 presented a French version as Ces Petites Choses. Red Ingle and the Natural Seven gave this 1947 an ironic twist with the new text Them Durn Fool Things. On his success single Everything Michael Bublé released the song as a B-side.
The song has also been interpreted in the film Tokyo Joe from 1949 and was part of the Broadway revue Blues in the Night (1982).
These Foolish Things was early to a jazz standard: Benny Carter (1936 ), Hot Lips Page, Lionel Hampton, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Count Basie and many other jazz musicians took the title. The recording of Lester Young in December 1945, remains one of Hans -Jürgen Schaal " the biggest ballads recordings of jazz at all," although Young complete " the issue by a superior, improvised by him tune " replaces ( but is based on the chord sequence of the template ). Lester Young's version inspired Eddie Jefferson to write the text for a vocal version (Baby Girl ).