That Old Feeling (song)

That Old Feeling is a song composed by Sammy Fain and was texted by Lew Brown; it was in 1937 in the film Vogues of 1938 published. The song received an Oscar nomination for "Best Original Song, " led in 1937 to the U.S. charts and has developed since the 1950s jazz standard.

Genesis and use in the film Vogues of 1938

Brown came up with the final text of the love song to Fain, who developed the text to the right melody almost completely during a meeting. The text is about that love is not over yet, but as the singer the person in question saw last night, he again had the old feeling and the moment where she looked at him, his heart stood still.

The song used in the movie when the protagonist a Supper Club visit: There Virginia Verrill sings (1916-1999) the ballad, framed by a tap dancing deposit of George Tapps ( 1911-1997 ).

More versions

Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra recorded the song and were 13 weeks in the U.S. charts, including four weeks at number one. Also Jan Garber and His Orchestra came with it in the same year in the charts, but only up to # 10 That Old Feeling was several times on the top spot from Your Hit Parade, as in the interpretation of Jane Froman.

The song has been widely gecovert, among others, Ella Fitzgerald, Rod Stewart and Frank Sinatra, the first time in 1946, together with André Previn interpreted the song on his radio show in a medley and 1947 took up with Axel Stordahl; In 1960 he played the piece again one with the orchestra of Nelson Riddle.

It has also become a popular jazz standard: In 1938, Teddy Wilson played a solo piano version of That Old Feeling a. Other musicians like Fats Waller, Count Basie (1955) and Chet Baker ( 1956) followed. But singers like Peggy Lee, Annie Ross, Anita O'Day and Frankie Laine ( in a jam session with Buck Clayton 1955) contributed to that That Old Feeling was given a permanent place in the repertoire of jazz musicians; as well as recordings of Diana Krall, Jay Leonhart or Roy Haynes emerged. Tom Lord lists in the field of Jazz 312 cover versions of the title.

Other uses in the film

Jane Froman sang the song in 1952 for the movie With a Song in My Heart, where she stood in for Susan Hayward. Woody Allen used the song several times, both in his films Radio Days (1987) and Husbands and Wives ( 1992) as well as in Celebrity ( 1998, where Getz Meets Mulligan of the album in stereo. )

The song was finally in the film comedy That Old Feeling to German to the titular theme, where on the one hand Patrick Williams interpreted That Old Feeling in 1997. In the film, on the other hand, recourse to a version by Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson from 1956.

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