125. I’m A Fool To Want You

Wolf & Herron & Frank Sinatra

(This edit master is basically take 3
with an excerpt of take 2)

I’m a fool to want you
I’m a fool to want you
To want a love that can’t be true
A love that’s there for others too

I’m a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
To share a kiss that devil has known

Time and time again I said I’d leave you
Time and time again I went away
But then would come the time when I would need you
And once again these words I have to say

I’m a fool to want you
Pity me I need you
I know it’s wrong it must be wrong
But right or wrong I can’t get along
Without you

I can’t get along without you

 

2nd version

I’m a fool to want you
I’m a fool to want you
To want a love that can’t be true
A love that’s there for others too

I’m a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
To share a kiss that devil has known

Time and time again I said I’d leave you
Time and time again I went away
But then would come the time when I would need you
And once again these words I have to say

I’m a fool to want you
Pity me I need you
I know it’s wrong it must be wrong
But right or wrong I can’t get along
Without you

I can’t get along without you

(a capella)
Time and time again I said I’d leave you
Time and time again I went away

 

3rd version

I’m a fool to want you
I’m a fool to want you
To want a love that can’t be true
A love that’s there for others too

I’m a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
To share a kiss that devil has known

Time and time again I said I’d leave you
Time and time again I went away
But then would come the time when I would need you
And once again these words I have to say

Take me back, I love you
Pity me I need you
I know it’s wrong it must be wrong
But right or wrong I can’t get along
Without you

I can’t get along without you

124. Ill Wind (1934)

Lyrics by Ted Koehler
Music by Harold Arlen

Blow,
Ill wind blow away
Let me rest today
You’re blowing me no good
No good

Go
Ill wind go away
Skies are oh so gray
Around my neighborhood
And that’s no good

You’re only misleading
The sunshine I’m needing
Ain’t that a shame
It’s so hard to keep up
With troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere
When love’s to blame

So
Ill wind blow away
Let me rest today
You’re blowing me no good
No good
No good

(long bridge)

You’re only misleading
The sunshine I’m needing
Ain’t that a shame
It’s so hard to keep up
With troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere
When love’s to blame

So
Ill wind go away
Let me rest today
You’re blowing me no good
No good

Ill wind

From the show Cotton Club Parade

123. I’ll Never Smile Again (1939)

lyrics and music by Ruth Lowe

I’ll never smile again
Until I smile at you
I’ll never laugh again
What good would it do?
For tears would fill my eyes
My heart would realize
That our romance is through

I’ll never love again
I’m so in love with you
I’ll never thrill again
To somebody new
Within my heart
I know I will never start
To smile again
Until I smile at you

(bridge)

Within my heart
I know I will never start
To smile again
Until I smile at you

to be rechecked

122. I’ll Never Fail You

Irving Taylor & Vic Mizzy

I’ll never fail you
Whatever may be
I’ll never fail you
Depend upon me
I’ll see them all through
The things you’ve planned
But if they fall through
I’ll understand
And when shadows trail you
I’ll bring you the sun
I’ll never fail you
There’s no other one
I’m yours forever
We never will part
I’ll never, never fail you sweetheart

121.I’ll Never Be The Same

Matty Malneck & Frank Signorelli & Gus Kahn

I’ll never be the same
Stars have lost their meaning for me
I’ll never be the same
Nothing is what it once used to be
And when the sunbirds that sing
Tell me it’s spring
I can’t believe their song
Once love was king
But kings can be wrong

I’ll never be the same
There is such an ache in my heart
I’ll never be the same
Since we’re apart
But there’s a lot that a smile can hide
And I know deep down inside
I’ll never be the same
Never be the same again

 

I’ll Look Around

George Cory & Douglass Cross

I’ll look around until I’ve found
Someone who laughs like you
I’ll know somewhere spring must fill the air
With sweetness just as rare
As the flower that you gave me to wear

I’ll look around and when I’ve found
Someone who sighs like you
I’ll know this love I’m dreaming of
Won’t be the old love I always knew
I’ll know somewhere spring must fill the air
With sweetness just as rare
As the flower that you gave me to wear

I’ll look around and when I’ve found
Someone who sighs like you
I’ll know this love I’m dreaming of
Won’t be the old love I always knew

 

I’ll look around until I’ve found
Someone who laughs like you
I’ll know somewhere spring must fill the air
With sweetness just as rare
As the flower that you gave me to wear

I’ll look around and when I’ve found
Someone who sighs like you
I’ll know this love I’m dreaming of
Won’t be the old love I always knew
I’ll know somewhere spring must fill the air
With sweetness just as rare
As the flower that you gave me to wear

I’ll look around and when I’ve found
Someone who sighs like you
I’ll know this love I’m dreaming of
Won’t be the old love I always knew

119. I’ll Get By (1928)

lyrics: Roy Turk 

music:  Fred E. Ahlert

follows 7 versions of this song

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I say
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

 

2nd version

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I say
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

 

3rd version

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I? Say
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I? (say)
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

 

4th version

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I (say)
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

(bridge)

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I (say)
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

 

5th version

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I (say)
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

(bridge)

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
No there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I (say)
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

 

6th version

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I?
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

(bridge)

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I?
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

 

7th version

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
Though there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I?
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

(bridge)

I’ll get by
As long as I have you
No there’ll be rain
And darkness too
I’ll not complain
I’ll laugh it’s true

Poverty
May come to me that’s true
But what care I?
I’ll get by
As long as I have you

The live recording LR #16 is in same track with LR#14 “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me” (Complete in Columbia vol.10, track #22)

118. I’ll Be Seeing You (1938)

lyrics: Irving Kahal

music: Sammy Fain

I’ll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through
In that small café
The park across the way
The children’s carousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

 

2nd version

I’ll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through
In that small café
The park across the way
The children’s carousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

 

3rd version

I’ll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through
In that small café
The park across the way
The children’s carousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

 

4th version

(intro)

I’ll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through
In that small café
The park across the way
The children’s carousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

In that small café
The park across the way
The children’s carousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

 

 

5th version

(very bad sound quality)

I’ll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through
In that small café
The park across the way
The children’s carousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

(applauses)

 

6th version

I’ll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All day through
In that small café
The park across the way
The children’s carousel
The chestnut trees
The wishing well

I’ll be seeing you
In every lovely summer’s day
In everything that’s light and gay
I’ll always think of you that way
I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you

(applauses)

 

First appeared in the show Right This Way

117. I’ll Be Around (1942)

lyrics and music by Alec Wilder

I’ll be around
No matter how
You treat me now
I’ll be around from now on

Your latest love
Can never last
And when it’s past
I’ll be around when she’s gone

Goodbye again
And if you find a love like mine
Just now and then
Drop a line to say you’re feeling fine

And when things go wrong
Perhaps you’ll see
You’re meant for me
And I’ll be around when she’s gone

Goodbye again
And if you find a love like mine
Just now and then
Drop me a line, say you’re feeling mighty fine

When things go wrong
Perhaps you’ll see
You’re meant for me
And I’ll be around when she’s gone
When she’s gone

(See below the comments by Joe Styles)

Dear Paulo,

  With the possible exception of Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, no jazz album has suffered more from well-meant but vacuous out-pourings of its admirers than Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin.  When I get in a certain frisky mood I’ll hop into the on-line reviews of this album as an exercise is seeing how music criticism should not be written.  Look at this gem (from:http://www.amazon.com/review/RS7Y6JZG3ZO9C/ref=cm_srch_res_rtr_alt_1 ):

‘”I’ll Be Around” gives Billie another opportunity to explore
the pain of how she must wait for a man who she hopes will
come to love her someday. Billie’s interpretation of “I’ll Be
Around” glistens like pure gold and the musical arrangement
shines, too.’

Maybe my synethesia isn’t working this week, but I simply have no clue what an “interpretation . . . [that] glistens like pure gold” sounds like.

At least part of the problem is that folks approach Lady in Satin as an autobiographical statement about Holiday rather than as a work of musical craft by her.  She’s a jazz singer, and one thing all good jazz singers do is change things in songs.  In her version of “I’ll Be Around,” I count at least eighteen changes Holiday made to the music and/or words as originally composed by Alec Wilder:

I’ll Be Around–Billie Holiday, 1958

KEY:
Underscoring = sung  on two (or more) notes, where originally
there was only a single note
Italics =  added word/words or word changed [or dropped] from original;
if word changed, original word in parentheses ( ) to the right
[word] = word omitted from original lyric

I’ll be around
no matter how
you treat me now;
I’ll be around                                                   1
from now on.

Your latest love
can never last
and when it’s past,
I’ll be around                                                   2
when she’s gone.

Goodbye, again,
and if you find a love like mine,                         3
just now and then                                            4
drop a line to say you’re feeling fine.

And when things go wrong                               5
perhaps you’ll see
you’re meant for me,                                       6
and I’ll be around                                            7 (so), 8
when she’s gone.

Goodbye, again,
and if you find a love like mine,                       9
just now and then                                         10
drop me a line, [to] say you’re feeling mighty fine.        11, [12], 13

When things go wrong
perhaps you’ll see
you’re meant for me,                                   14
and I’ll be around                                        15 (so), 16
when she’s gone–
when she’s gone.                                        17, 18

Of the eighteen changes I’ve marked, eleven–all the underscored words–involve Holiday adding either a note or a down-glide to a word that, in the original version of the song, is sung as a single syllable on a single note.
Another musical tradition–not jazz–calls this process ornamenting a melody. Maybe you’ll have noticed that the words Holiday chose to ornament fall into two groups: those referring to the singer of the song (I’ll; mine; me) and those referring to a hoped for/desired/dreamed of time (then; when) of renewed contact or renewed availability of the beloved.  Holiday’s interpretative strategy for this song is to emphasize exactly this relation between the yearning singer and the yearned-for time.
The effect this emphasis has on the meaning of the song is perhaps most readily understood by comparing Holiday’s versions of “I’ll be Around” to the versions of other singers.  Mildred Bailey’s 1942 version emphasizes the singer’s determination.  Peggy Lee’s 1962 version the singer’s vulnerability.  In contrast, Holiday hints at an enormous additional burden on both the singer and the singer’s fantasy that waiting entails.  I find her version the most poignant of any I’ve heard.

There’s only a few additional points I want to make, though I cannot fully develop them here.  First, it’s obvious to me that what Holiday did in “I’ll Be Around” is a deliberate strategy.  It is NOT some direct outpouring of emotion but a very carefully constructed way of singing a song aimed at evoking a certain emotional response.  Second–and this is related to the first–Holiday’s approach to the song is holistic in that it treats the song as a unified entity.  It’s not as if some part of the song expresses determination, another fear, another whatever–but the effect of the whole is achieved by deliberate, subtle changes that are coordinate. This was a constant strategy in Holiday’s work. Third, Holiday’s approach to “I’ll be Around” is absolutely unique and original.  If you listen to how other singers try to interpret the song, you’ll hear them playing around with the timing and relative emphasis in phrases like “I’ll be around” (Cf. especially Little Willie John–I’LL BE–around; and Tony Bennett’s tag: “I’ll BE around–I’ll–be around–I’ll–Be–Around from now on.”)  Holiday is the only singer I’ve ever heard in the 67-year recording history of the song who modifies its meaning by relying largely on ornament.  It’s a technique she learned, I think, from listening to Bessie Smith’s recordings, and used earlier in her career as well–and to very good effect (in such recordings as the 1937 “I Must have That Man,” where she moved first from the imperative “MUST have” of all earlier singers to the possessive “must HAVE” of her first two readings of the title line in her solo to the seductive “must HA-AVE” of her third reading of the title).

Best,

Joe Styles

Los Angeles, California

116. If You Were Mine

Johnny Mercer & Matty Malneck

If you were mine
I could be a ruler of kings
And if you were mine
I could do such wonderful things
I’d say to a star
Stop where you are
Light up my lover’s way
And every star above you
Would obey, say
If you were mine
I would live for your love alone
To kneel at your shrine
I would give up all that I own
Yes even my heart
Even my life
I’d trade it all for you
And think I was lucky too
If you were mine