I Cover the Waterfront (song)

I Cover The Waterfront is a pop song by John W. Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman from the year 1933.

The song

I Cover The Waterfront was inspired by the eponymous novel by Max Miller ( 1932). In the song, a woman longs for the sight of nocturnal harbor in Cape Town and the sea brought her lover, according to the theme of the book, which recreates an investigative journalist of the daughter of a smuggler.

The piece has a major characteristic and is written in song form AA ' BA '. Each of the A- parts begins with the phrase " I Cover the Waterfront". The B section acts as a call and response.

Effect story

The version of Joe Haymes came first in the hit parade, a week later, Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra, which reached up to # 3. The song was on the radio so popular that it was later inserted into the film by James Cruz (1933, with Claudette Colbert and Ben Lyon), which also was based on the novella. In the same year, Louis Armstrong and Johnny Green interpreted the song itself.

The piece quickly became a jazz standard. The most famous interpretation comes from Billie Holiday (1941 with Teddy Wilson), the multi- recorded the song later. Other versions exist of Lester Young ( with Buddy Rich and Nat King Cole, 1946), Art Tatum (1949 ), Count Basie, Benny Carter, Paul Chambers, Curtis Fuller, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Jazz At The Philharmonic, Bud Powell, Frank Sinatra (1957 ), Sarah Vaughan, Erroll Garner, Mary Coughlan, Joe Zawinul, John Lee Hooker, Ruby Braff, Tony Bennett, Artie Shaw, Sonny Clark, Joe Turner and Hank Jones. More recent recordings are of Adam Makowicz, Wynton Marsalis, Jacqui Naylor and Connie Evingson.

The song appears in the video game BioShock 2 in an interpretation of Connie Boswell.