Jazz Standards (XXXIX)

(Dados Biográficos In Wikipédia e In AllMusic.Com - Todos os excertos das biografias foram adaptados e algumas vezes traduzidos por Ricardo Santos)     

             

(Sobre o tema em questão, algumas palavras retiradas de “in

http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions/index.htm” - adaptação e tradução por Ricardo Santos)              

                

Someone to Watch over Me (#77) - Música de George Gershwin e Letra de Ira Gershwin 

No dia 8 de Novembro de 1926, o musical “Oh Kay!” estreou-se no Teatro “Imperial”, e durante a memorável exibição Gertrude Lawrence apresentou à audiência uma canção intitulada “Someone to Watch over Me”. O musical “Oh Kay!” obteve grande sucesso na Broadway, com 256 exibições, antes de atravessar o Atlântico para uma versão em Londres, em 1927. Este musical obteve ainda êxito em 1960 fora da Broadway e em 1990, novamente na Broadway.              

                 

Renee Olstead (Houston, Texas, EUA, 18-06-1989 - 20xx) – Do álbum “Renee Olstead” de 2004, para a etiqueta “Warner Brothers, Records”.        

                

            

                 

Letra (versão de Renee Olstead)           

                  

There's a somebody I'm longin' to see 

I hope that he, turns out to be

Someone who'll watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood

I know I could, always be good

To one who'll watch over me

He may not be the man some

Girls think of as handsome

To my heart he carries the key

Won't you tell him please to put on some speed

Follow my lead, oh, how I need

Someone to watch over me

Won't you tell him please to put on some speed

Follow my lead, oh, how I need

Someone to watch over me

Someone to watch over me           

               

Linda Ronstadt (Tucson, Arizona, EUA, 15-07-1946 - 20xx) – Com a orquestra de Nleson Riddle, em Santa Barbara (1984).              

         

           

              

Letra (versão de Linda Ronstadt)           

              

There's a saying old, says that love is blind

Still we're often told, "seek and you shall find"

So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind

Looking everywhere, haven't found him yet

He's the big affair I cannot forget

Only man I ever think of with regret

I'd like to add his initial to my monogram

Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?

There's a somebody I'm longin' to see

I hope that he, turns out to be

Someone who'll watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood

I know I could, always be good

To one who'll watch over me

Although he may not be the man some

Girls think of as handsome

To my heart he carries the key

Won't you tell him please to put on some speed

Follow my lead, oh, how I need

Someone to watch over me

Someone to watch over me                

                  

Oscar Peterson (Montreal, 15-08-1925 - 23-12-2007)          

              

           

                      

Chet Baker (Yale, Oklahoma, EUA, 23-12-1929 – Amsterdão, 13-05-1988) – com Chet Baker (trompete e vocal), Dick Twardzik (piano), Jimmy Bond (contrabaixo) e Peter Littman (bateria), em 1955, ao vivo na Holanda.               

               

                

                       

Letra (versão de Chet Baker)                 

              

There's a someone I'm longin' to see

I hope that she, turns out to be

Someone who'll watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood

I know that I could be good

To one who'll watch over me

I may not be the guy some

Girls think of as handsome

To her heart I’ll carry the key

Won't you tell her please to put on some speed

Follow my lead, oh, how I need

Someone to watch over me

Won't you tell her please to put on some speed

Follow my lead, oh, how I need

Someone to watch over me

Someone to watch over me