You Go to My Head
You Go to My Head is a pop song composed by J. Fred Coots, with the text of Haven Gillespie. It dates from the year 1936.
Special features of the song
You Go to My Head is about a partner who determined the thoughts ( " You step to my head / And you stay there as a memorable refrain" )
The song is a major / minor - oriented Balade in swing style. The composition comprises 42 bars in the complicated song form AABA'C (C = 8 bars coda ), tempo slow to moderato. The composition is very challenging "with the octave interval at the beginning, then the melody jump from f to c and back down to the F # at the beginning of the bridge, the numerous repetitions on complex harmonic progressions. " Ask The song " the vocalists at all personality and dedication from. Basically may here be left only the bare voice. "
Because of this complexity found the two authors of this "little masterpiece" ( Alec Wilder) for two years no publisher for the song, which was published by Warner Brothers in 1938.
Pop versions
1937 played Benny Goodman and his orchestra and singer Martha Tilton the number. After the official release, it was recorded in 1938 around the time of Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra with vocalist Nan Wynn and the Larry Clinton Orchestra with Bea Wain and singer Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra. Teddy Wilson came into the American charts on 18 June 1938 No. 20, Clinton had a few weeks later a hit (third place on July 23, 1938), and Gray arrived ( on August 13, 1938) to number nine of the hit parade. Another version of Billie Holiday, who was accompanied in their recording on May 11, 1938, inter alia, Buster Bailey, Claude Thornhill, Cozy Cole and John Kirby, however, was not initially commercially successful.
Other recordings were made by Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra ( with Axel Stordahl, 1946), Tony Bennett and Petula Clark ( 1950). Later the song was sung by Dinah Shore, and Bryan Ferry.
The way to Jazz Standard
Jazz singers such as Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan ( with the Basie band) prepared the song in jazz his way. Numerous other singers followed, about Ella Fitzgerald ( Hello, Love, 1960, and especially in a duo with Joe Pass ), Betty Carter ( It's Not About the Melody, 1992) and Diana Krall ( The Very Best of Diana Krall, 2007), but also singers like Johnny Hartman, Kenny Hagood or Chet Baker.
Hans -Jürgen Schaal points out that in particular the " pioneers of modern jazz " You Go to My Head had redefined: Coleman Hawkins took him in 1946 with a bebop octet on, 1948, the combo of Miles Davis, in 1949 followed by the Big Band by Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and the trio of one octet to Dave Brubeck and, in 1950, the quartet of Lee Konitz and Billy Bauer. Also Clifford Brown ( 1953) and Charlie Mariano (1956 ) report significant interpretations. Paul Desmond played the song one time and again. In the fifties created numerous additional versions to Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum and Kurt Edelhagen. Among the instrumental recordings in particular stand out from the Bennie Wallace in 1987 on the album The Art of the Saxophone, as well as recordings by Anthony Braxton and Ran Blake.
Filming
The song can be heard in the following movies:
- Laura ( 1944 Instrumental)
- Swing Kids (1993 )
- Corrina, Corrina (1994, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson )
- Playing by Heart (1999, Chet Baker)