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Your favorite My Funny Valentine rendition? What's your favorite rendition of My Funny Valentine?
For me, Chaka Khan & Bilal -Theirs simply the BEST EVER! Chaka's album version http://www.youtube.com/wa...P-oGwt8ng0 live version (out of so many fantastic live performances of the song) http://www.youtube.com/wa...G-x9w0bAPo Bilal's live version http://www.youtube.com/wa...plK2i5pwDQ | |
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Chet Baker. "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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scriptgirl said: Chet Baker.
Here are mine Sarah Vaughan Ella These are my all time favorites, especially Ella's. Chaka comes in a close third. [Edited 1/7/10 3:48am] "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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scriptgirl said: Chet Baker. 
It's really a tie between him and Chaka for me. I heard Chaka's first on that Waiting to Exhale album. I was in love with her voice as a kid. I drove my dad crazy on car trips begging to hear that song over and over. Then years later, I "borrowed" (as in somehow it never traveled to TN when she moved..shhh!) my grandma's Jazz albums and heard Chet singing it. Something about his version reminds me of those sexy perfume ads from the 90s. The ones in black in white with all the silk and sexy people smooching. It's just such a clean, simple version to me. This is the first time I'm hearing Sarah, though. GOD. I love her singing Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. Now I'm falling HARD for her singing My Funny Valentine.. | |
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LadyLuvSexxy said: scriptgirl said: Chet Baker.
It's really a tie between him and Chaka for me. I heard Chaka's first on that Waiting to Exhale album. I was in love with her voice as a kid. I drove my dad crazy on car trips begging to hear that song over and over. Then years later, I "borrowed" (as in somehow it never traveled to TN when she moved..shhh!) my grandma's Jazz albums and heard Chet singing it. Something about his version reminds me of those sexy perfume ads from the 90s. The ones in black in white with all the silk and sexy people smooching. It's just such a clean, simple version to me. This is the first time I'm hearing Sarah, though. GOD. I love her singing Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. Now I'm falling HARD for her singing My Funny Valentine.. My dad used to play both the Sarah and Ella versions of that song. Those were the only versions that I knew, until YEARS later. "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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I love Chaka's version.....but I also loved "Kyle Barker's" version that he sang to "Max" on the show "Living Single". That scene was so funny, and that boy can SANG!!!  "Bring friends, bring your children and bring foot spray 'cause it's gon' be funky." ~ Prince
A kiss on the lips, is betta than a knife in the back ~ Sheila E Darkness isn't the absence of light, it's the absence of U ~ Prince | |
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SHOCKADELICA1 said: I love Chaka's version.....but I also loved "Kyle Barker's" version that he sang to "Max" on the show "Living Single". That scene was so funny, and that boy can SANG!!!
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Who wrote that song? "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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scriptgirl said: Who wrote that song?
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart from their musical, Babes in Arms from 1937. | |
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Thanks. I want to see the film to see who sang it originally "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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scriptgirl said: Who wrote that song?
It was written by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart in 1937, for the musical "Babes in Arms". In the show, it was sung by Mitzi Green. Her character sang it to a character named, Valentine LaMar. [Edited 1/7/10 12:15pm] "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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It was a Broadway show and not a movie? "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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shorttrini said: scriptgirl said: Chet Baker.
Sarah Vaughan Ella ^ Those are probably 2 of the definitive vocal versions. Miles Davis... ...from the Cookin' album. My instrumental favorite. Chet Baker's is nice also. Music for adventurous listeners tA  Tribal Records[Edited 1/7/10 16:47pm] "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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scriptgirl said: It was a Broadway show and not a movie?
Both (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031066/ TCM show it from time to time. If you see it you'll hear the music to "Lady Is A Tramp". 
I've always like works of Roger & Hart more so than when Roger work with lyricists Hammerstein. Hammerstien's lyrics could be sappy and sentimental. | |
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Thanks, TD3! "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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Another nice sensitive instrumental version by...
...The Keith Jarrett Trio Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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I like Carly Simon's version from her album My Romance. |
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Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton | |
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Sting and Chris Botti. | |
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My gran. Somewhere, there's a reel to reel recording of her, from about 40 years ago, singing this song and accompanying herself on the piano. She so understands that song, it really is something else. On the same tape she also sings My Sweet Embraceable You - they're both pretty wonderful.
There's also a very charming version of this song, on YouTube, by Rufus Wainwright who is accompanied by his mother Kate McGarrigle. Is there anybody else who has slightly mysterious bruises? | |
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Johnny Mathis >> | |
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A couple more fine instrumental versions featuring guitar.
...Chet Atkins ...Jim Hall & Michael Petrucciani Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Records"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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