American Standard: The Nearness Of You | James Taylor
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2020
- “The Nearness Of You” debuted in a 1940 recording by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, with vocals by Ray Eberle. That recording first reached the Billboard Best Seller Chart on July 20, 1940, and stayed there for eight weeks, peaking at #5.
Written in 1938 by Hoagy Carmichael / Ned Washington
Available here: found.ee/JTAmericanStandard
It takes an extraordinary artist to re-imagine some of the most beloved songs of the 20th century and make them completely their own. Unlike most who have tackled similar material, American Standard’s beautifully simple, stripped-down arrangements are based on the 2-guitar collaboration of James Taylor and John Pizzarelli, rather than standard piano arrangements. James was determined to keep that sound at the center of the project, and the effect is mesmerizing.
LYRICS
It's not the pale moon that excites me
That thrills and delights me, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
It isn't your sweet conversation
That brings this sensation, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
When you're in my arms
and I feel you so close to me
All my wildest dreams come true
I need no soft lights to enchant me
If you'll only grant me the right
To hold you ever so tight
And to feel in the night the nearness of you
When you're in my arms
and I feel you so close to me
All my wildest dreams, I see them all come true
I need no soft lights to enchant me
If you would only grant me the right
To hold you ever so tight
And to feel in the night the nearness of you
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Oh James you are making me so happy by singing anything. I don't care what song. Just sing.
The world walks so fast, but its music sets the pace
What a voice!
James Taylor is an amazing talent, his heart and soul will live forever in those who listen to him.
Timeless forever love this song
It's still my J.T. singing old lovely song
More power mr. James Taylor
God bless you more
JT. 💛👍timeless.
Oh man this is awesome!!! Your such a legend in our TY so much. 😍
James you are a treasure for our Taylor Family...We love you and your dear voice and your songs that you generously have shared ❤️ go UNC!!
I been a Taylor fan for 50 years and he keeps on coming up with great stuff.I like his old classics but these new releases of the old time songs are wonderful.
James, you have contemporized a Standard and tenderly breathed new life into it ... for (hopefully) many future generations of music lovers. Well done!
Sweet ! Love this Latino mood ! Nice memories of youth falling in love. To be dancing this rumba bolero forever and ever...
Fantastic version.
Forgot ...Thank you!!!😀😍🤩✨🎶🎵
grazie grazie fai muovere le mie emozioni un abbraccio
Your sound never get old. It just grows deeper...Thank you.
Such romance in this old world love ballad with James Taylor singing.It does not get better than this.Thank you for posting.
Every time this man opens his mouth I start to cry. James you are so soulful. You make me feel like you are singing directly to me. I was raised on standards like this. I love how the cut is short like the recordings of the day. Say what you've got to say perfectly and close. I'm not going to be happy until I own this album. Very well done!
I love James Taylor. His music hits deep in your heart and mind. His voice is a go getter. I love the song Snow Time. His songs take my mind to Peach Moon in orbit. Thank you for the deep memories James.Keep on singing.
🥀Beautiful Love Song! Oh yeah I love this song🥀✌
One of my favourites on the CD. The guitar work is fantastic. Like wine getting better with age. Thanks for the music and keep well.
In the world we live in now,we need more songs like this one.Kudos JT!
You have always been one my favorite artists.Your approach, ability, delivery of all the music you've done, has always been top notch,world class.Thank you so very much for all the wonderful and beautiful melody and notes from your guitar,your vocals,and your heart.Your musical gift has been a very cherished blessing in my life.Thanks again,all the best to you and your family.
Nice! I love that bluesy sound....so dreamy...indeed...Carolyn from canada
Perfect James Taylor song
I love these songs on American Standards...
So many years of his amazing music and passion of music and life itself... you feel so much peace of mind and spirit ... thank you JAMES for all the memories of my life with you..,
Yes your music touched hearts again..... Sweet Baby James Taylor...... Love the sounds... Big fan of James in the 1970's....
The voice!! And hubba hubba!!
Beautiful . . . Could you possibly be any better than you are ? NO . . . you could not !!! Thank you for this wonderful collection of music . Grateful . . .
Sounds phenomenal as he matures. Still has such a melodic, strong, yet subdued quality to his voice.
Saw James again this time last month in Dublin Brian for the I don’t know how many times since 1985,
He’s like Good Whiskey, James just gets Better and Better
A True World Treasure
Take care Brian
Jack Vaughan Tipperary Ireland
Huh...itbis like a sigh of relief the moment I hear your voice e...Carolina...
I love this song so much...hmmmm..
Listened to this as a child, James Taylor you play it and sing it so well. It"s so lovely to hear it again. 🎶💕
Oh man I love the trumpet in this!! What a great arrangement. It just shows the great musicality of you James throughout the years!!! Love this album.
I agree, the trumpet is absolutely fabulous in this!
The trumpet reminds me of Animal Crossing. I know this song was around for a lot longer, but anyway...
it's probably a flugelhorn, with Walter Fowler playing it.
James Taylor = Legend
Maravilloso!!!!!
James..you are so amazing..and your pure voice sounds just as good as the first time I heard Fire and Rain, Sweet Baby James, Carolina in my mind..oh yes..brings me back to such special days in my life!! Thank You!
James your music has been a constant light in my life since I was very young thank you❤️
Outstanding... you were my inspiration every time I had to speak. Would listen to your music while I drove to an event. It never failed.
Beautiful! Thank you, James!🌹
Love your song
Thank you for sharing
This tune holds for me, a dear memory of the most wonderful girl.
So sweet
She is very lucky indeed!
Great job James on beautiful love song
Your an amazing singer I love to hear you although I am thousands of miles away and a lot older
This arrangement, thee unparalleled engineering & mix on this delicate masterpiece holds me gently like a crisp linen-fresh, warm blanket. Every layer clear as a bell & sits so well together further complimenting the genius of, Mr. James Taylor. It's like I've opened up a brand new album after returning home from the record store only to discover blends of sound I've never heard together in song before. I'm reminded of the first time I [vicariously] shook the hand of, Sergio Mendes & was marveled by the many innovations I was listening to & then just like that, over the solo in this tune, I said hello to, Mr. Mangione once again... 😉 Anyway, Mr Taylor, your incomparable talents, velvet vocal & well, everything about your sir, never cease to amaze me. Beautiful, simply beautiful ! Love & Light to you all out in "UA-cam-Land"... sigh. I feel renewed once more. What a treasure indeed. 💜 🎶 🍀 😉 👻
As are your comments & I agree with the fantastic detail you wrote out for us. Thank you!
@@WAKirsten I second that emotion, Kirsten Holm: "Fantastic detail" and "Thank you!" to Brian for this straight-to-the-heart sharing. These words especially: "I'm reminded of the first time I [vicariously] shook the hand of, Sergio Mendes & was marveled by the many innovations I was listening to & then just like that, over the solo in this tune, I said hello to, Mr. Mangione once again... 😉
To be able to share something beautiful with others breaks through the sadness and isolation of our times...
What a great thought.
Thank you for including this love song.
James just gets better! Amazingly refreshing arrangements and instrumentation! Makes me feel so good inside! Thank you!
On par with his version from Michael Brecker's album
I love these notes you've shared, thanks!
Still loving the American Standard, just a wonderful cd
Love this cover. You´re a master crooner my dear JT...Need you in my night table.
Great Musician / Songwriter. Quality and Soul...The positive side of USA.
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Love James Taylor's interpretation of songs especially romantic "The Nearness of You" composed by Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics by Ned Washinton long ago. James brings a new dimension to this song with his own original style.
Beautiful comments & sharing where the song came from, so valuable.
I wasn't around when Agustin Lara wrote the song and titled it "Te Vi Pasar", but I doubt that H. Carmichael purposely ever intended to appropriate claim of authorship. I salute J. Taylor for his beautiful performance and the dozens of other artists who have interpreted the piece over the decades.
Fine work, detail by detail... Cheers, James.
His voice did not change!
Great observation about his voice quality.
Wow! New and refreshing, simple and exquisite. I love this beyond words! I'm getting the cd. Seeing him concert soon! What a great blend of instruments!
Oh you're still the same Thank God🌹🌹🌹 my sweet baby James
Passei 2020 escutando esse artista de uma voz única que embalou toda minha juventude.
Just, what we expect from The Great Man! Keep it going J.Taylor. Many thanks and Kind regards Colyn.
Wonderful voice! Perfect instrumentals!!!
I love this song. :) This version really really nice and cool acoustic cover. :) What an amazing song. :)
It's a Grammy for sure.
Love xx
Beautiful
I ❤🥰 THIS. DEEP TOUCHING OVERWHELMING FOR ME;.
L❤🥰VE. S🥰❤NG.
THANK.U FOR WRITE. IT👍
🥰💕🌈🌈🌞👍
Our wedding song! Thank you JT!!
Your eyes remind me of my dad's eyes love your singing 😊
Nice...Good Morning to everyone...Love you All....
Thank you for making magic. My heart is filled with peace and joy with this new album of some old favorites.
So well-said.
Really nice and smooth. Class act.
Another very good performance. Wonderful lyric and music. Pure inspiration ! Blessings and Greetings a lot !
Many thanks for your kindness. Have a nice day and take care. Blessings and grettings !
Thanks a lot. Have a nicer day and take care at all !
You look younger than ever ! Birthay Greeting ciao
A beautiful old song from a great artist. I must say, it has a different feel in a pandemic. 6ft
DZRJ 100.3 FM Brought Me Here. :)
I know,James,you will never read this,wich is an expression of a latin american singer,who lives in a world far away from yours.But I want you to know(if you ever read this)that you have thousands,maybe millions of fans in this side of the planet,who enjoy enormelly what you sing and express musically,the way you do.Many artists,musicians,singers,etc,would be delighted if you only say:"Hello"...!!!!!
😢😊😢
I’m not James but A BIG HELLO FROM OKLAHOMA
Amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo amo
Beautiful foxtrot
that's the vintage James Taylor.
amazing!!
The quality of the recording is sublime. Beautiful!
❤
one of the most perfectly balanced ballads (othough not a ballad here) ever written, IMO. bravo james and hoagy.
BTW, nora jones does aa modern jazz.ballad version. might want to check out the one done by nancy wilson back in the '50s(?).
I like this one too :)
This and 'It's only a paper moon' are my favorites so far.
If I get married this will be my first dance. And I'll walk down the aisle to Teach Me Tonight. I want my wedding to be a musical tribute to him. I'm completely obsessed with this CD.
Very nice baby James.
🍷💚
I know he wanted to do these standards but I really wanted an album of his original material,oh well..his last good album was October Road..guess I'll have to keep listening to his old stuff,and he's been my fav singer/ songwriter for years
It was raining in the field. Better in person.
James, to me you can do no wrong. I'm glad you were around all my life. Cheers!
P.S. no Minneapolis? How about Duluth, MN? :)
Don't Need no Problem...I just Leave it to You...
♥️♥️♥️💎🤗🌺
Siriusly Sinatra satellite radio (now 'Channel 70') is playing James Taylor's Grammy-winning recording of THE NEARNESS OF YOU - the loveliest song collaboration from Hoagy ('Stardust') Carmichael and Ned ('When You Wish Upon a Star') Washington. My personal favorite lyric from so many great ones composed by Mr. Washington who twice picked up the “Best Song” Academy Award (Wikipedia note below).
It features a short but perfect bridge (like so many composed by James Taylor) that conveys so much in so few words - slightly modified by James, to make the song 'his own.'
“When you're in my arms, and I feel you so close to me, all my wildest dreams -- I see them all come true. I need no soft lights to enchant me, if you would only grant me the right, to hold you ever so tight, and to feel in the night, the nearness of you.
And with a signature James Taylor arrangement (“for two guitars” with fellow Grammy-winner John Pizzarelli) you'd really think that James had composed this gem (now more than 80 years old).
Wikipedia note:
Ned Washington (born Edward Michael Washington, August 15, 1901 - December 20, 1976) was an American lyricist born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.[1]
Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962. He won the Best Original Song award twice: in 1940 for "When You Wish Upon a Star" in Pinocchio and in 1952 for "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" in High Noon.
Some of Washington's songwriting credits include:
"Rawhide" (music by Dimitri Tiomkin, 1958), sung in the TV show by Frankie Laine[5]
"The 3:10 to Yuma" (music by George Duning, 1957), sung in the movie by Frankie Laine[6]
"Wild Is the Wind" (music by Dimitri Tiomkin, 1956) sung in the movie by Johnny Mathis[7]
"Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (music by Dimitri Tiomkin, 1956), sung in the movie by Frankie Laine[8]
"The High and the Mighty" (music by Dimitri Tiomkin, 1954)[2] (Deleted from the final "cut" of the movie, but nominated anyway for the Best Song at the 27th Academy Awards
"High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" in the film High Noon, sung by Tex Ritter. 1952[9]
"My Foolish Heart" (music by Victor Young, 1950)[2]
"On Green Dolphin Street" (music by Bronislau Kaper, 1947)
"Stella by Starlight" (music by Victor Young), 1944), recorded by Ella Fitzgerald on her Verve album Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!, also covered by Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Chet Baker [3]
"Baby Mine", "Pink Elephants on Parade", and "When I See an Elephant Fly" for Dumbo (music by Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace, 1941),[10] the first sung in the movie by Betty Noyes (uncredited); nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song at the 14th Academy Awards and the second by the character Dandy (Jim) Crow, voiced by Cliff Edwards (uncredited), also known as "Ukulele Ike".
"When You Wish Upon a Star" for Pinocchio (music by Leigh Harline, 1940),[11] sung in the movie by the character Jiminy Cricket, voiced by Cliff Edwards, also known as "Ukulele Ike", won the Academy Award for Best Song at the 13th Academy Awards.[3]
"The Nearness of You" (with Hoagy Carmichael, 1938) written for Gladys Swarthout for the film Romance in the Dark [3]
"I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (music by George Bassman, 1932), used by Tommy Dorsey as his theme song [3]
"I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (music by Victor Young, 1932), recorded by Ella Fitzgerald on her Pablo release Digital III at Montreux.
Thanks for sharing James Taylor. Celebrated elsewhere this day [search] " Great Melody, Great Lyric, Great Rendition, Songwriting Workshop, Harmony Central "
Will your arrangements with chords, etc. be published similar to your song book by (Warner Bros. Publication Inc.; Amsco Music Publishing Co/NY, UK, ..) thank you for being an inspiration.
Acompañarnos si, pero cada quien con su proceso.
No empecemos con el tema de las ataduras de nuevo!
"Yo no estoy aquí para salvarte, tu te sostienes en tu alma".
Tu no estás aquí para salvarme, yo me sostengo en mí alma".
Are you C R A Z Y ! Y E S ! ! He speaks of love of intimacy, NOT BONDAGE!!
Can you imagine James collaborating with of Diana Krall
I wonder if you knew my brother and his son
Por qué querés estar al lado mío si ya no me amas.?....