How About You?

How About You? is a song by Burton Lane (music) and Ralph Freed ( text ), which was published in 1941.

Lane and Freed wrote How About You? ' for the film Babes on Broadway (1942 ), directed by Busby Berkeley, with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland as the main character, imagine the song in the movie. How About You? 1943 received an Oscar nomination for Best Song.

Judy Garland ( accompanied by the orchestra, David Rose, Brunswick 83305 ) took the song to record on; numerous cover versions of How About You? have already been recorded in the 1940s, including by Teddy Powell, Tommy Dorsey, Teddy Weatherford, Fred Böhler, Alice Babs and Claude Thornhill. In the 1950s, the song by Frank Sinatra ( Songs for Swingin ' Lovers 1956), Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson (The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Festival Shakepearean 1956), Horace Silver, Lennie Niehaus, Cal Tjader was Chet Baker, Buddy DeFranco, Kenny Burrell, Tal Farlow and Rosemary Clooney / The Hi- Lo's interpretation, which made ​​him a popular jazz standard. Tom Lord lists after 261 versions of the song.

The by Ryan Truesdell Centennial - Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans arrangement of the song recorded in 2012 by Gil Evans ( originally for the Thornhill orchestra ) was awarded a 2013 Grammy award in the Best Instrumental Arrangement.