L-O-V-E

LOVE is a jazz song with a text by the music producer Milt Gabler and a melody by German composer and orchestra conductor Bert Kaempfert.

After 1964 to Bert Kaempfert's Blue Midnight album an instrumental version was published, the American singer and musician Nat King Cole took the song first on the text of Milt Gabler. Cole's self-titled album appeared in 1965 (a few days before he had to be admitted to the hospital because of lung cancer ) and reached # 4 on the U.S. Billboard charts. Nat King Cole took the piece to also in French, Spanish, Japanese, German and Italian.

Versions

In addition to the recording by Nat " King" Cole and the instrumental version of Bert Kaempfert, among others are the following covers:

  • Natalie Cole, Nat Cole's daughter, on the album The Unforgettable (1991 )
  • Sacha Distel on the album When I Fall In Love
  • Joss Stone, a mixture of pop and R'n'B made ​​from the Song ( 2007)
  • Michael Bublé for the film Why Did I Get Married? as a classic swing with big band ( Bublé released his version as a bonus track on his album Call Me Irresponsible 2007)
  • Jools Holland and Rico Rodriguez on the album The Informer (2008)
  • A shot in the TV commercial for the Honda Accord (2008)
  • Bria Skonberg on their album Fresh ( 2009)
  • The BossHoss & Nena on the album Liberty of Action and in the soundtrack to the film Rubbeldiekatz (2011)

Composition

Text

The beginning of the text describes an acrostic: It is called each a letter and an "element " of love, which begins with one of the four letters of "Love". The result is the word " Love".

The text continues with the following words:

Harmony and melody

The song is based on a rather simple harmony that described simplifies besides the tonic and dominant and subdominant includes the double dominant.

The melody consists of the first phrase of the melody ( with the text L is for the way you look at me ) and two tonal sequences of this motif: A tonal shift of the melody to the first phrase, starting with g to creates a tone down the second phrase (O is for the only one I see ), beginning with fis. The melody of the third phrase ( Two in love can make it ) starts with h and a shift of the first two steps to the top. The melody to Love Phrase what made ​​for me and you start again with g, but includes different than the original design by the melody leads back to g.

Arrangement

In the first part of the song is Cole's singing of a rhythm section with piano, drums, bass and guitar, starting from the second verse ( Love is all that I can give to you ... ) are added strings. The second verse is followed by a trumpet solo, which also use big band brass. Nat Cole sets in A major after the solo again.

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