Everything Happens to Me (song)

Everything Happens to Me is a pop song from the Great American Songbook, have the Matt Dennis (music) and Tom Adair ( text ) written and published in 1941. The first recorded by the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra ballad has become a jazz standard.

Genesis

Tommy Dorsey entrusted 1941 Matt Dennis, whom he had met in 1940 on Jo Stafford after a concert at the Hollywood Palladium, and Tom Adair to start writing some songs. Their " songs such as Let 's Get Away from It All Violets for Your Furs or were the vocal equivalent of swing instrumental hits like In the Mood, or Do not Be Way did. Sinatra was lucky at the right time to play in the Dorsey band, and to be entrusted by the band leader with most of the Dennis / Adair songs. "

The almost universally held in a major characteristic song is written in the AABA song form 32taktigen and has a " breathless melody ". The text deals with a love story in " modern art " with " much urbanity " is but packed, with the narrative person goes wrong very much: The rain makes it impossible for golf game, the neighbors complain about the party noise, the train is missed. In the well-established in February 1941 original version, an arrangement by Alex Stordahl medium tempo, there is not, as in common Dorsey, a trombone solo by the bandleader, but Sinatra's singing is at the center. First he sings the four-bar verses, then a half choruses.

More versions

Already 1941, Woody Herman an instrumental version of the song. Bill Harris played the song 1946; 1949 was followed by Charlie Parker With Strings on his legendary album. Now followed by further recordings by Stan Getz and Art Pepper. 1958 Chet Baker sang the song. A masterful instrumental version played Thelonious Monk 1964 solo: " The Eighth Note chains of composition suitable for his piano style perfectly. Monk breaks the repeated notes in a range of variation that brings the floating of the piece between tragedy and ease on a purely musical point. "