Tenderly

The composition is originally a song in three-quarter time, with 32 bars, form AB'AB " in moderately slow pace. Initially, the song was sung in 1947 by Sarah Vaughan, who thus came into the charts up to number 27. In 1950, saxophonist Lynn Hope. the song and came into the pop charts of Billboard Magazine to place 19 Full coverage known the song was by Rosemary Clooney with the orchestra of Percy Faith Clooney's recording of the title indeed reached in 1952 only number 17 on the pop charts; ., the plate but sold further, it crossed the million mark was in 1953 sold the sixth most common plate. Additional popularity of the song whose use was as the title music for Clooney's TV show from 1956 to 1957 at. too in the film Torch Song from 1953 found Tenderly use. Bert Kaempfert in 1961 has attempted once again to tie with a cover version of success.

Meanwhile Tenderly had become a geradtaktigen Jazz Standard; the track was recorded by many jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Benny Carter, Buddy DeFranco, Billy Eckstine, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Erroll Garner, Lionel Hampton, Ted Heath, Woody Herman, Billie Holiday, Stan Kenton, Gene Krupa, Carmen McRae, Red Norvo, Anita O'Day, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Artie Shaw, George Shearing, Art Tatum, Mel Tormé and Dianne Reeves.

Literature / Sources

• Carlo Bohländer, Karl -Heinz Holler & Christian parish: Reclam Jazz guide; Reclam, Stuttgart, 1990
• Description from JazzStandards.com

• Jazz Title
• Song 1946