INDEX OF SONGS & LYRICS “J-K”
Jeepers Creepers
Jim	2 versions
Just Friends
Just One More Chance
Just One of Those Things
Keeps On A Rainin’	2 versions

 

146. Jeepers Creepers(1938)

lyrics: Johnny Mercer

music: Harry Warren

Jeepers creepers
Where’d you get those peepers?
Jeepers creepers
Where’d you get those eyes?
Gosh all git up
How’d they get so lit up?
Gosh all git up
Where’d they get that size?
Golly gee!
When you turn those heaters on
Woe is me!
Got to put my cheaters on
Jeepers creepers
Where’d you get those peepers?
Oh! those weepers!
How they hypnotize, boy
Where’d you get those eyes?

Notes

In this recording 4 singers take part, all of them singing approximately same verses. The ones transcript above are Billie’s.

The sequence in the recording is as follows:

– Martha Tilton

– Johnny Mercer

– Billie Holiday

– “The Amazing Doctor” Leo Jackson

The song was featured in the 1938 film Going Places starring Dick Powell, Anita Louise and Ronald Reagan. Louis Armstrong appears in the part of Gabriel, the trainer of a race horse named Jeepers Creepers, a very wild horse and can only be soothed enough to let someone ride him when Gabriel plays the song “Jeepers Creepers” on his trumpet or sings it to him. Gabriel wrote the song specifically for the horse. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Original Song. (The phrase “jeepers creepers”, a slang expression and minced oath euphemism for Jesus Christ, predates both the song and film.) (Wikipedia)

147. Jim

Nelson A. Shawn & Caesar Petrillo & Edward Ross & Milton Samuels

Jim doesn’t ever bring me pretty flowers
Jim never tries to cheer my lonely hours
Don’t know why I’m so crazy for Jim

Jim never tells me I’m his heart’s desire
I never seem to set his love afire
Gone are the years I’ve wasted on him

Sometimes when I get feeling low
I say let’s call it quits
Then I hang on and let him go
Breaking my heart in bits

Someday I know that Jim will up and leave me
But even if he does you can believe me
I’ll go on carrying the torch for Jim

(bridge)

Sometimes when I get feeling low
I say let’s call it quits
Then I hang on and let him go
Breaking my heart in bits

Someday I know that Jim will up and leave me
But even if he does you can believe me
I’ll go on carrying the torch for Jim

I’ll go on loving my Jim

 

2nd version

Jim doesn’t ever bring me pretty flowers
Jim never tries to cheer my lonely hours
Don’t know why I’m so crazy for Jim

Jim never tells me I’m his heart’s desire
I never seem to set his love afire
Gone are the years I’ve wasted on him

Sometimes when I get feeling low
I say let’s call it quits
Then I hang on and let him go
Breaking my heart in bits

Someday I know that Jim will up and leave me
But even if he does you can believe me
I’ll go on carrying the torch for Jim

(bridge)

Sometimes when I get feeling low
I say let’s call it quits
Then I hang on and let him go
Breaking my heart in bits

Someday I know that Jim will up and leave me
But even if he does you can believe me
I’ll go on carrying the torch for Jim

I’ll go on loving my Jim

 

Notes

NC

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148. Just Friends (1931)

lyrics by Sam M. Lewis
music by John Klenner

[rehearsal fragment]

Just friends, lovers no more
(…)
Just friends, but not like before
(…)
Two friends, lovers no more
Two friends, but not like before
We live, we laugh, we cry
We live, we laugh, we cry
The story ends
And we’re just friends

Notes

NC

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149. Just One More Chance (1931)

lyrics by Sam Coslow

music by Arthur Johnston

Just one more chance
To prove it’s you alone I care for
Each night I say a little prayer for
Just one more chance

Just one more night
To taste the kisses that enchant me
I’d want no others if you’d grant me
Just one more chance

I’ve learned the meaning of repentance
Now you’re the jury at my trial
I know that I should serve my sentence
Still I’m hoping all the while
You’ll give me

Just one more word
I said that I was glad to start out
But now I’m back to cry my heart out
For just one more chance

(bridge)

I know that I should serve my sentence
Still I’m hoping all the while
You’ll give me

Just one more word
I said that I was glad to start out
But now I’m back to cry my heart out
For just one more chance

Notes

NC

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150. Just One Of Those Things (1935)

lyrics and music by Cole Porter

It was just one of those things
Just one of those crazy flings
One of those bells that now and then rings
Just one of those things

It was just one of those nights
Just one of those fabulous flights
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings
Just one of those things

If we’d thought a bit, of the end of it
When we started painting the town
We’d have been aware that our love affair
Was too hot, not to cool down

So good-bye, dear, and amen
Here’s hoping we meet now and then
It was great fun
But it was just one of those things

(very long bridge)

It was just one of those things
Just one of those crazy flings
One of those bells that now and then rings
Just one of those things

It was just one of those nights
Just one of those fabulous flights
A trip to the moon on gossamer wings
Just one of those things

If we’d thought a bit of the end of it
When we started painting the town
We’d have been aware that our love affair
Was too hot, not to cool down

So good-bye, dear, and amen
Here’s hoping we meet now and then
It was great fun
But it was just one of those things

Notes

From the show Jubilee with June Knight and Charles Walters. The musical opened on Broadway in 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression. It had strong reviews and was considered “one of the great theatrical events of the 1930s.”It ran for 169 performances. The famous Beguin the Beguine was also in the score. “Just One of Those Things” was featured in two Doris Day musical films, Lullaby of Broadway (1951 – see video) and Young at Heart (1954).

   Doris Day (Lullaby of Broadway)

 

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151. Keeps On Rainin’

Spencer Williams & Max Kortlander

One dark and stormy night
Big John was feeling blue
Ain’t he didn’t seem right
So he didn’t know just what to do
I said do please tell me
Ain’t you satisfied
He looked around so pitiful
And to me he replied
Keeps on raining
Look how it’s raining
Daddy he can’t make no time
Wind keeps blowing
Cold wind’s blowing
Soon I’ll find

In the winter time
When it starts to snow
I know Billie
You’ve got to have some dough
Keeps on raining
Look how it’s raining
Daddy he can’t make no time

(bridge)

Ain’t the rain just beautiful
Some people say
But I’d rather see it
In a fine movie play
Keeps on raining
Look how it’s raining
Your Daddy he can’t make no time
No Daddy he can’t make no time

 

 

2nd version

rec date	type	#	discography	tk	rec time
1949	LR	60	Perfect Complete Collection v.3	14	3’27”

(studio chat)

One dark and stormy night
Big John was feeling blue
Ain’t he didn’t seem right
And he didn’t know just what to do
I said do please tell me
Ain’t you satisfied
He looked around so pitiful
And to me he replied
Keeps on raining
Look how it’s raining
Daddy he can’t make no time
Wind keeps blowing
Cold wind’s blowing
Soon I’ll find

In the winter time
When it starts to snow
I know Bessie
You’ve got to have some dough
Keeps on raining
Look how it’s raining
Daddy he can’t make no time

Ain’t the snow just beautiful
Some people say
But I’d rather see it
In a fine movie play
Keeps on snowing
Look how it’s snowing
Daddy he can’t make no time
No your Daddy he can’t make no time

Notes

NC

 

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