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* [[Casa Loma Orchestra]] with [[Kenny Sargent]] – 1938<ref name="standards" />
* [[Casa Loma Orchestra]] with [[Kenny Sargent]] – 1938<ref name="standards" />
* [[Jan Savitt]] and his orchestra with Carlotta Dale - 1938
* [[Jan Savitt]] and his orchestra with Carlotta Dale - 1938
* [[Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson]] - 193?
* [[Billie Holiday]] – 1938<ref name="standards" />
* [[Billie Holiday]] – 1938<ref name="standards" />
* [[Marlene Dietrich]] with [[Victor Young]] and His Orchestra - 1939
*[[Natalie Cole]] ''[[Still Unforgettable]]'' (2008)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/still-unforgettable-mw0000793668|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 10, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Coleman Hawkins]] with [[Milt Jackson]] – 1946<ref name="standards" />
* [[Coleman Hawkins]] with [[Milt Jackson]] – 1946<ref name="standards" />
* [[Doris Day]] – on her album ''[[You're My Thrill (Doris Day album)|You're My Thrill]]'' (1949)
* [[Doris Day]] – on her album ''[[You're My Thrill (Doris Day album)|You're My Thrill]]'' (1949)
* [[Bing Crosby]]
* [[Bing Crosby]]
* [[Miles Davis]]
* [[Miles Davis]]
* [[Ella Fitzgerald]] - Hello, Love (1959)
* [[Ella Fitzgerald]] - ''[[Hello, Love (Ella Fitzgerald album)|Hello, Love]]'' (1959)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000209536|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 10, 2024}}</ref>
*[[Louis Armstrong]] & [[Oscar Peterson]] - ''[[Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson]]'' (1959).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/louis-armstrong-meets-oscar-peterson-mw0000416528|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 12, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Bill Evans]] with [[Freddie Hubbard]] and Jim Hall – ''Interplay'' (1962)<ref name="standards" />
* [[Bill Evans]] with [[Freddie Hubbard]] and Jim Hall – ''Interplay'' (1962)<ref name="standards" />
* [[Bill Evans]] - Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest - 1968
* [[Colette Magny]] - ''Chansons pour Titine'' (1983) - ''Blues'' (1999)
* [[Shirley Horn]] with [[Joe Henderson]] – ''The Main Ingredient'' (1995)<ref name="standards" />
* [[Shirley Horn]] with [[Joe Henderson]] – ''The Main Ingredient'' (1995)<ref name="standards" />
* [[Mathilde Santing]] - Mathilde Santing (1982) <ref name="standards" />
* [[Mathilde Santing]] - Mathilde Santing (1982) <ref name="standards" />
* [[Dianne Reeves]] with [[Nicholas Payton]] – ''A Little Moonlight'' (2002)<ref name="standards" />
* [[Dianne Reeves]] with [[Nicholas Payton]] – ''A Little Moonlight'' (2002)<ref name="standards" />
* [[Keely Smith]] - ''[[I Wish You Love (Keely Smith album)|I Wish You Love]]'' (1957)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-wish-you-love-mw0000327543|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=December 23, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Rod Stewart]] - ''It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook'' (2002)
* [[Rod Stewart]] - ''It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook'' (2002)
*[[Kurt Rosenwinkel]] - "Standards Trio: Reflections" (2009)
* [[Paulette McWilliams]] and [[Bobby Caldwell]] - “You Go to My Head” (2012)
* [[Cassandra Wilson]] – ''[[Coming Forth by Day (Cassandra Wilson album)|Coming Forth by Day]]'' (2015)<ref>{{cite web|title=Coming Forth by Day |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/coming-forth-by-day-mw0002817785|website=[[Allmusic]]|publisher=allmusic.com|access-date=15 January 2019}}</ref> Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald
* [[Cassandra Wilson]] – ''[[Coming Forth by Day (Cassandra Wilson album)|Coming Forth by Day]]'' (2015)<ref>{{cite web|title=Coming Forth by Day |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/coming-forth-by-day-mw0002817785|website=[[Allmusic]]|publisher=allmusic.com|access-date=15 January 2019}}</ref> Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald
* [[Bob Dylan]] – ''Triplicate'' (2017)
* [[Bob Dylan]] – ''Triplicate'' (2017)
* [[Chuck Berry]] – ''Chuck'' (2017)
* [[Chuck Berry]] – ''Chuck'' (2017)
* Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan-1961
* [[Marella Motta]] - ‘’Instagram’’ (2023)
* [[Lio (singer)|Lio]] - "Lio" (1980)


==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of 1930s jazz standards]]
*[[List of 1930s jazz standards]]
*[[Picardy Third]]
*[[Picardy Third]]

Latest revision as of 01:38, 24 December 2024

"You Go to My Head"
Song
Published1938 by Remick Music
Composer(s)J. Fred Coots
Lyricist(s)Haven Gillespie

"You Go to My Head" is a 1938 popular song composed by J. Fred Coots with lyrics by Haven Gillespie.[1] Numerous versions of the song have been recorded, and it has since become a pop and jazz standard.

Melody and lyrics

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Alec Wilder terms Coots' melody as a "minor masterpiece".[2] According to Ted Gioia, "'You Go to my Head' is an intricately constructed affair with plenty of harmonic movement. The song starts in a major key, but from the second bar onward, Mr. Coots seems intent on creating a feverish dream quality tending more to the minor mode. The release builds on the drama, and the final restatement holds some surprises as well. The piece would be noteworthy even if it lacked such an exquisite coda, but those last eight bars convey a sense of resigned closure to the song that fittingly matches the resolution of the lyrics.” [3] Gillespie's lyrics begin: "You go to my head and you linger like a haunting refrain".

Recordings, use in film, and performances

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Bryan Ferry's 1975 UK-charting cover of the song on Island Records

Larry Clinton recorded the song with his orchestra and with vocals by Bea Wain on February 24, 1938, and the song became a hit, eventually reaching #3 on the pop charts.[4] It inspired an answer song, "You Went To My Head" (by Joseph Meyer, Bob Emmerich, and Buddy Bernier) that was recorded by Fats Waller on March 11, 1938, and again by Duke Ellington (featuring a vocal by Ivie Anderson) on April 17, 1938. The song was later recorded in 1938 by Teddy Wilson with a vocal by Nan Wynn, by Billie Holiday,[5] and by Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra. The Wilson, Holiday, and Gray versions all placed in the top 20 of the music charts in 1938.[4] The song is played in Laura (1944 film) and The Big Sleep (1946 film). The Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson version of the song is played in the movie Corrina, Corrina (film).

In 1953, Frank Sinatra sang the song before a live television audience of 60 million persons (broadcast live over the NBC and CBS networks) as part of The Ford 50th Anniversary Show.

On 23 April 1961, Judy Garland performed the song at the Judy at Carnegie Hall concert. Bryan Ferry recorded the song as a single with a video in 1975 reaching No. 33 in the UK charts.

Other versions

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "You Go To My Head" at jazzstandards.com – retrieved on 8 June 2009
  2. ^ The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists 0198022883 Philip Furia - 1992: "One of the decade's great torch songs, 'You Go to My Head' (1938), was written by the unlikely-sounding team of Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots (their only other hit together was 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town'). Originally written in 1936, 'You Go to My ... Alec Wilder terms Coots' melody a 'minor masterpiece,' and Gillespie's lyric not only matches it with smoothly expanding phrases but artfully weaves an elaborate skein of imagery. Reaching back to Berlin's comparison of a ..."
  3. ^ Gioa, T. (2012, p. 468), The Jazz Standards: a Guide to the Repertoire. Oxford University Press.
  4. ^ a b Ted Gioia: The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, Oxford University Press 2012, p. 469
  5. ^ [1] Archived June 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. New York City: Oxford University Press. pp. 468–469. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
  7. ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
  8. ^ "Coming Forth by Day". Allmusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.