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"You Go to My Head"
"You Go to My Head"
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Published	1938 by Remick Music
Composer(s)	J. Fred Coots
Lyricist(s)	Haven Gillespie

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"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

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

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

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond – Jazz at Storyville (1952)^[6]
Betty Carter – It's Not About the Melody (1992)^[6]
Casa Loma Orchestra with Kenny Sargent – 1938^[6]
Jan Savitt and his orchestra with Carlotta Dale - 1938
Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson - 193?
Billie Holiday – 1938^[6]
Coleman Hawkins with Milt Jackson – 1946^[6]
Doris Day – on her album You're My Thrill (1949)
Bing Crosby
Miles Davis
Ella Fitzgerald - Hello, Love (1959)
Bill Evans with Freddie Hubbard and Jim Hall – Interplay (1962)^[6]
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)^[6]
Mathilde Santing - Mathilde Santing (1982) ^[6]
Dianne Reeves with Nicholas Payton – A Little Moonlight (2002)^[6]
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 (2015)^[7] Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald
Bob Dylan – Triplicate (2017)
Chuck Berry – Chuck (2017)
Marella Motta - ‘’Instagram’’ (2023)
Lio - "Lio" (1980)

References

^ "You Go To My Head" at jazzstandards.com – retrieved on 8 June 2009
^ 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 ..."
^ Gioa, T. (2012, p. 468), The Jazz Standards: a Guide to the Repertoire. Oxford University Press.
^ ^a ^b Ted Gioia: The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, Oxford University Press 2012, p. 469
^ [1] Archived June 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^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.
^ "Coming Forth by Day". Allmusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

[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.

[Gioia-4] 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

[standards-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] "Coming Forth by Day". Allmusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

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 ==Other versions==
+* [[Dave Brubeck]] and [[Paul Desmond]] – ''Jazz at Storyville'' (1952)<ref name="standards">{{cite book |last1=Gioia |first1=Ted |title=The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York City |isbn=978-0-19-993739-4 |pages=468–469}}</ref>
-* [[Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson]] - 193?
-* [[Billie Holiday]] – 1938<ref name="standards" />
+* [[Betty Carter]] – ''It's Not About the Melody'' (1992)<ref name="standards" />
 * [[Casa Loma Orchestra]] with [[Kenny Sargent]] – 1938<ref name="standards" />
 * [[Jan Savitt]] and his orchestra with Carlotta Dale - 1938
+* [[Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson]] - 193?
+* [[Billie Holiday]] – 1938<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)
-* [[Dave Brubeck]] and [[Paul Desmond]] – ''Jazz at Storyville'' (1952)<ref name="standards">{{cite book |last1=Gioia |first1=Ted |title=The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York City |isbn=978-0-19-993739-4 |pages=468–469}}</ref>
 * [[Bing Crosby]]
 * [[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" />
-*[[Julie London]] - ''[[Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast]]'' (1967).<ref>{{cite web|title=www.allmusic.com|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/nice-girls-dont-stay-for-breakfast-mw0000969502|website=www.allmusic.com|accessdate=June 24, 2024}}</ref>
 * [[Bill Evans]] - Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest - 1968
-* [[Lio (singer)|Lio]] - "Lio" (1980)<ref>{{cite web|title=www.discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/master/69802-Lio-Lio|website=discogs.com|accessdate=June 18, 2024}}</ref>
-* [[Mathilde Santing]] - Mathilde Santing (1982) <ref name="standards" />
 * [[Colette Magny]] - ''Chansons pour Titine'' (1983) - ''Blues'' (1999)
-* [[Betty Carter]] – ''It's Not About the Melody'' (1992)<ref name="standards" />
+* [[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" />
 * [[Dianne Reeves]] with [[Nicholas Payton]] – ''A Little Moonlight'' (2002)<ref name="standards" />
 * [[Rod Stewart]] - ''It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook'' (2002)
-*[[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>
 *[[Kurt Rosenwinkel]] - "Standards Trio: Reflections" (2009)
 * [[Paulette McWilliams]] and [[Bobby Caldwell]] - “You Go to My Head” (2012)
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 * [[Chuck Berry]] – ''Chuck'' (2017)
 * [[Marella Motta]] - ‘’Instagram’’ (2023)
+* [[Lio (singer)|Lio]] - "Lio" (1980)
 ==See also==

v t e Billie Holiday
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Albums	Billie Holiday Sings/Solitude An Evening with Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic Stay with Me Music for Torching Velvet Mood Lady Sings the Blues Body and Soul Songs for Distingué Lovers Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport All or Nothing at All Lady in Satin Last Recording The Essential Billie Holiday: Carnegie Hall Concert Recorded Live Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933–1944 Lady Day Swings Remixed and Reimagined The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters
Songs	"Ain't Nobody's Business" "As Time Goes By" "Billie's Blues" "Blue Moon" "Body and Soul" "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" "Don't Explain" "Easy Living" "Embraceable You" "Everything Happens for the Best" "Everything Happens to Me" "Fine and Mellow" "Gloomy Sunday" "God Bless the Child" "Good Morning Heartache" "I Cover the Waterfront" "I Loves You, Porgy" "If You Were Mine" "I Thought About You" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Get By" "I'll Never Be the Same" "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" "Just One of Those Things" "Lady Sings the Blues" "Left Alone" "Love for Sale" "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" "Me, Myself, and I" "Miss Brown to You" "My Man" "Moonlight in Vermont" "Night and Day" "No More" "Now or Never" "Our Love Is Different" "P.S. I Love You" "Pennies from Heaven" "Please Don't Do It Here" "Preacher Boy" "Sophisticated Lady" "Stormy Blues" "Stormy Weather" "Strange Fruit" "Sugar" "Summertime" "That Ole Devil Called Love" "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" "Too Marvelous for Words" "Trav'lin' Light" "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" "What Is This Thing Called Love?" "Why Was I Born?" "Willow Weep for Me" "You Go to My Head" "Your Mother's Son-In-Law"
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Category

v t e Judy Garland songs
1930s	"Good Morning" "Over the Rainbow" "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)"
1940s	"Among My Souvenirs" "Be a Clown" "The Boy Next Door" "A Couple of Swells" "Easter Parade" "F.D.R. Jones" "For Me and My Gal" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "How About You?" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "It's a Great Day for the Irish" "Johnny One Note" "Journey to a Star" "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" "On the Sunny Side of the Street" "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" "The Wearing of the Green" "The Trolley Song"
1950s	"April Showers" "Carolina in the Morning" "Confessin'" "Day In, Day Out" "Get Happy" "How About Me?" "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" "I Concentrate on You" "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" "Just You, Just Me" "Last Night When We Were Young" "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" "More Than You Know" "The Man That Got Away" "Swanee" "Stormy Weather" "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" "Theme from San Francisco" "What'll I Do"
1960s	"After You've Gone" "Almost Like Being in Love" "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" "Down with Love" "Do It Again" "Fly Me to the Moon" "A Foggy Day" "Hey, Look Me Over" "I Happen to Like New York" "If Love Were All" "Moon River" "Oh Shenandoah" "Somewhere" "This Can't Be Love" "You Go to My Head"