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'''"I Love You"''' is a song written by [[Cole Porter]] in 1944 for his stage musical ''[[Mexican Hayride (musical)|Mexican Hayride]]''. |
'''"I Love You"''' is a song written by [[Cole Porter]] in 1944 for his stage musical ''[[Mexican Hayride (musical)|Mexican Hayride]]''. |
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==Background== |
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''[[The New York Times]]'' reviewed the show, saying, among other things: "Of Mr. Porter's score, the best number bears the title almost startling in its forthrightness, "I Love You," and is the property of Mr. Evans"<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nichols|first1=Lewis|title=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/29/specials/porter-hayride.html|access-date=July 22, 2017|date=January 29, 1944}}</ref> ([[Wilbur Evans]]). |
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⚫ | However, the rather generic lyrics of the song were due to a challenge given by Porter. His friend [[Monty Woolley]] contended that Porter's talent lay in the off-beat and the esoteric, maintaining that he could never take a cliché title like "I Love You" and write lyrics that included the banal sentiment: "It's spring again, and birds on the wing again" and be successful. Porter accepted the challenge with the result that the song eventually topped the [[hit parade]]. Porter remarked that the "superior melody overcame the ordinary lyric".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Fred|title=The Crosby Collection 1926-1977|date=1986|publisher=John Joyce & Son|location=Gateshead, UK|pages=62–63}}</ref><br> |
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In 1945 Ira B. Arnstein sued Cole Porter for plagiarizing his work and filed a suit in the Federal Court. He had for twenty years been suing various songwriters and was considered to |
In 1945, [[Ira B. Arnstein]] sued Cole Porter for plagiarizing his work and filed a suit in the Federal Court. He had for twenty years been suing various songwriters and was considered to |
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be a little eccentric. He claimed that Porter had stolen four songs |
be a little eccentric.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} He claimed that Porter had stolen four songs: "I Love You", "[[Don't Fence Me In (song)|Don't Fence Me In]]", "[[Begin the Beguine]]" and "[[You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To]]". A jury dismissed the charges, and the judge, moreover, awarded Porter $2,500 ($45,154 in 2022 terms) in legal costs—a sum that, since Arnstein couldn't pay it, kept him from any chance of prevailing in a federal court for the rest of his life.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rosen|first1=Gary A|title=Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0199733484|page=218}}</ref> |
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⚫ | It was recorded by [[Bing Crosby]] on February 11, 1944<ref>{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|website=BING magazine|publisher=International Club Crosby| |
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It has become a popular [[jazz standard]] tune with recordings by [[Billy Eckstine]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Bill Evans]], [[Herbie Mann]], [[Art Pepper]], [[John Coltrane]], [[Jackie McLean]], [[Don Ellis]], [[Duke Pearson]], [[Hampton Hawes]] (with [[Harold Land)]], [[Mike Stern]], [[Steve Smith and Vital Information]], [[Oscar Peterson]] and [[Keith Jarrett]], amongst others. |
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⚫ | It was recorded by [[Bing Crosby]] on February 11, 1944<ref>{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|website=BING magazine|publisher=International Club Crosby|access-date=July 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633239/m1/#track/2|title = Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #10|year = 1972}}</ref> and topped the Billboard charts for five weeks during an 18-week stay.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/109 109]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/109}}</ref> Other charted versions were by [[Tommy Tucker (bandleader)|Tommy Tucker]], [[Enric Madriguera]], [[Jo Stafford]] and [[Perry Como]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954|date=1986|publisher=Record Research Inc|location=Wisconsin, USA|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/516 516]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/joelwpopmemories00whit/page/516}}</ref> |
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==Other Recordings== |
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It has become a popular [[jazz standard]] tune, along with pop music. Amongst others with recordings by: |
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*[[Bing Crosby]] - ''[[Bing Crosby Sings Cole Porter Songs]]'' (1949).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/6516465-Bing-Crosby-Bing-Crosby-Sings-Cole-Porter-Songs|website=discogs.com|accessdate=June 8, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Billy Eckstine]] & [[Sarah Vaughn]] (1952)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/4480801-Billy-Eckstine-And-Sarah-Vaughan-I-Love-You|website=discogs.com|accessdate=June 6, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Oscar Peterson]] - ''Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter'' (1953).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/4246943-Oscar-Peterson-Oscar-Peterson-Plays-Cole-Porter|website=discogs.com|accessdate=June 6, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Duke Pearson]] - ''[[Tender Feelin's]]'' (1960).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/tender-feelins-mw0000479951|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 8, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Jackie McLean]] - ''[[Swing, Swang, Swingin']]'' (1960).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/swing-swang-swingin-mw0000023908|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 7, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[John Coltrane]] - ''[[Lush Life (John Coltrane album)|Lush Life]]'' (1961).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lush-life-mw0000187971|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 7, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Hampton Hawes]] (with The Harold Land Trio) - ''[[For Real! (Hampton Hawes album)|For Real!]]'' (1961).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000201517|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 8, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Frank Sinatra]] - ''[[Sinatra and Swingin' Brass]]'' (1962).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sinatra-and-swingin-brass-mw0000083435|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 6, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Art Pepper]] - ''[[Intensity (Art Pepper album)|Intensity]]'' (1963).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000194057|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 6, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Herbie Mann]] and the [[Bill Evans]] Trio -''[[Nirvana (Herbie Mann and the Bill Evans Trio album)|Nirvana]]'' (1964)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/nirvana-mw0000691127|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 7, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Don Ellis]] - ''[[Out of Nowhere (Don Ellis album)|Out of Nowhere]]'' (1988).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/out-of-nowhere-mw0000202922|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 7, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Mike Stern]] - ''[[Give and Take (Mike Stern album)|Give and Take]]'' (1997)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/give-and-take-mw0000027558|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 7, 2024}}</ref> |
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*[[Eliane Elias]] - ''[[Everything I Love (Eliane Elias album)|Everything I Love]]'' (2000)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/everything-i-love-mw0000051681|title=Eliane Elias -- Everything I Love| publisher=[[AllMusic.com]] | first= Scott | last= Yanow | accessdate=March 25, 2016}}</ref> |
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*[[Keith Jarrett]] - ''[[The Out-of-Towners (album)|The Out-of-Towners]]'' (2004)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-out-of-towners-mw0000209537|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 6, 2024}}</ref> |
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==Other Media== |
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== References == |
== References == |
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{{s-bef|before = "[[It's Love-Love-Love]]"<br/>by [[Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians]] with vocal chorus by Skip Nelson and the Lombardo Trio}} |
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{{s-ttl|title = ''[[Billboard (magazine)|The Billboard]]'' [[National Best Selling Retail Records]] [[List of Billboard number-one singles|number-one single]]<br/>(Bing Crosby version)|years =May 6 – June 3, 1944 (five weeks)}} |
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{{s-aft|after = "[[I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)]]"<br/>by [[Harry James and His Orchestra]] with vocal chorus by [[Dick Haymes]]}} |
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{{s-bef|before = "San Fernando Valley" by [[Bing Crosby]] with [[John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra]]<br/><br/>"San Fernando Valley" by Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra}} |
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{{s-ttl|title = ''The Billboard'' Most Played Juke Box Records number-one single<br/>(Bing Crosby version)|years = May 27, 1944 (one week)<br/>June 10, 1944 (one week)}} |
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{{s-aft|after = "San Fernando Valley" by Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra<br/><br/>"I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" by Harry James and His Orchestra with vocal chorus by Dick Haymes}} |
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[[Category:1944 songs]] |
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[[Category:1944 singles]] |
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[[Category:Songs written by Cole Porter]] |
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[[Category:Barbra Streisand songs]] |
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Latest revision as of 12:46, 7 September 2024
"I Love You" is a song written by Cole Porter in 1944 for his stage musical Mexican Hayride.
Background
[edit]The New York Times reviewed the show, saying, among other things: "Of Mr. Porter's score, the best number bears the title almost startling in its forthrightness, "I Love You," and is the property of Mr. Evans"[1] (Wilbur Evans).
However, the rather generic lyrics of the song were due to a challenge given by Porter. His friend Monty Woolley contended that Porter's talent lay in the off-beat and the esoteric, maintaining that he could never take a cliché title like "I Love You" and write lyrics that included the banal sentiment: "It's spring again, and birds on the wing again" and be successful. Porter accepted the challenge with the result that the song eventually topped the hit parade. Porter remarked that the "superior melody overcame the ordinary lyric".[2]
In 1945, Ira B. Arnstein sued Cole Porter for plagiarizing his work and filed a suit in the Federal Court. He had for twenty years been suing various songwriters and was considered to be a little eccentric.[citation needed] He claimed that Porter had stolen four songs: "I Love You", "Don't Fence Me In", "Begin the Beguine" and "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To". A jury dismissed the charges, and the judge, moreover, awarded Porter $2,500 ($45,154 in 2022 terms) in legal costs—a sum that, since Arnstein couldn't pay it, kept him from any chance of prevailing in a federal court for the rest of his life.[3]
It is not to be confused with an earlier song called "I Love You"— lyrics by Harlan Thompson and music by Harry Archer—written for the 1923 musical Little Jessie James.
First Recordings
[edit]It was recorded by Bing Crosby on February 11, 1944[4][5] and topped the Billboard charts for five weeks during an 18-week stay.[6] Other charted versions were by Tommy Tucker, Enric Madriguera, Jo Stafford and Perry Como.[7]
Other Recordings
[edit]It has become a popular jazz standard tune, along with pop music. Amongst others with recordings by:
- Bing Crosby - Bing Crosby Sings Cole Porter Songs (1949).[8]
- Billy Eckstine & Sarah Vaughn (1952)[9]
- Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter (1953).[10]
- Duke Pearson - Tender Feelin's (1960).[11]
- Jackie McLean - Swing, Swang, Swingin' (1960).[12]
- John Coltrane - Lush Life (1961).[13]
- Hampton Hawes (with The Harold Land Trio) - For Real! (1961).[14]
- Frank Sinatra - Sinatra and Swingin' Brass (1962).[15]
- Art Pepper - Intensity (1963).[16]
- Herbie Mann and the Bill Evans Trio -Nirvana (1964)[17]
- Don Ellis - Out of Nowhere (1988).[18]
- Mike Stern - Give and Take (1997)[19]
- Eliane Elias - Everything I Love (2000)[20]
- Keith Jarrett - The Out-of-Towners (2004)[21]
Other Media
[edit]- Barbra Streisand performed several lines in her "Color Me Barbra Medley" from the TV special and the album Color Me Barbra.
References
[edit]- ^ Nichols, Lewis (January 29, 1944). "The New York Times". Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ Reynolds, Fred (1986). The Crosby Collection 1926-1977. Gateshead, UK: John Joyce & Son. pp. 62–63.
- ^ Rosen, Gary A (2012). Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 218. ISBN 978-0199733484.
- ^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
- ^ "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #10". 1972.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 109. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 516. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
- ^ "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
- ^ "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
- ^ "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 7, 2024.
- ^ Yanow, Scott. "Eliane Elias -- Everything I Love". AllMusic.com. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
- ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 6, 2024.