Night and Day (song)

Night and Day is a song by Cole Porter from 1932 from the musical Gay Divorce. The ballad on November 29, 1932 for the first time listed was developed in the same year the number -one hit and has in the 1940s jazz standard.

Background

The title was first sung by Fred Astaire, both in the 248 performances moderately successful Porter musical as well as in the film The Gay Divorcee 1934er Musical (German Dance with me ). The song starts out very rhythmically with the words: "Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom tom" and not hide behind the physical cravings of love expression.

The core of the melody is actually almost entirely of a repeated note and a triplet down; the melody lives " of the small movements that revolve around the key-note chromatic around, " but also by the frequent use of Quint. Each verse is 48 bars long and kept in an unusual song form - ABA'BCB '. The song can be interpreted both as a Beguine as well as a swing piece. Cole Porter later said that he had been inspired by the call of a muezzin, he heard on a trip to Morocco, to the piece.

First recordings

Astaire's recording of the song with the orchestra of Leo Reisman was almost immediately a hit and climbed within two weeks at the top of the American charts. Other recordings from the years occupied the hit potential of the song ( also in instrumental versions ):

  • Leo Reisman and His Orchestra (1932, Fred Astaire, # 1)
  • Eddy Duchin & His Central Park Casino Orchestra (1933, Instrumental, # 2 )
  • Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra (1934, Instrumental, # 13) ( Reissue)
  • Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra (1940, Instrumental, # 24)
  • Frank Sinatra (1942, Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra with, # 16)
  • Frank Sinatra (1944, # 15)
  • Bing Crosby (1946, # 21)

In Europe, the song was recorded in 1933 by the Comedian Harmonists.

The way to Jazz and Popstandard

Sinatra gave the piece in 1942 with supporting voice and relaxed timbre " the decisive elegant touch" ( the song he had been since at least 1936 in the program). Among the defining Swing versions included not only recordings of Billie Holiday ( 1939) and Tommy Dorsey (1942 ) and those of Claude Thornhill (1942 ), Jack Teagarden (1943) and Edmond Hall ( 1944). Also Art Tatum coverte the song, first in 1946, then in the fifties with soloists such as Roy Eldridge and Ben Webster. Even in the modern jazz of the song was recorded by many musicians, such as by Charlie Parker ( with big band, 1952), Stan Getz ( 1951 again ) and Bill Evans ( several times since 1958), the later Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Marian McPartland / Willie Pickens ( Is not Misbehavin ': Live at the Jazz Showcase 2000) or Adam Makowicz followed. Saxophonist played again and again the title - Sonny Rollins (1964 ) as well as Joe Henderson, Lee Konitz (1974 ) and Gary Thomas (1993). In addition to the instrumental versions, there were also new vocal versions, such as Ella Fitzgerald ( Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook ) by Anita O'Day or. In pop music is always Sinatra Night and Day took on again, but this was (1990, on Red Hot Blue ) played, Joachim Witt and Rod Stewart also by groups like U2. Even Yehudi Menuhin interpreted the song ( in an arrangement by Stephane Grappelli ). The effect of history as a pop song is reflected in the versions of the Willem Breuker Kollektief or by Franz Koglmann.

The piece was in the biographical film about Cole Porter, De-Lovely The Cole Porter Story ( Irwin Winkler ) is used, sung by John Barrowman and Kevin Kline. It is also the title of a musical revue film by Cole Porter from 1946. Moreover, it was in television advertising ( for a same coffee blend ) is used.

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