It Never Entered My Mind (from "Higher and Higher") - Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- #med (Music.Every.Day)
This is video 452 of my video posting project. I have been working on this project since November 2023--learning and posting a video of new piano music (almost) every day! (I'm counting videos instead of days now!)
Today's piece is called "It Never Entered My Mind" from the musical "Higher and Higher. It was written in 1940 by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. This arrangement can be found in Hal Leonard's collection: The Jazz Piano Solos: Coffee Table Jazz collection. The volume features arrangements of standards by Brent Edstrom.
When I play musicals, even if I am playing unfamiliar ones to me, I can tell that it is connected in some way to lyrics. There is something very vocal in the rhythm and melodic patterns that sounds like talking to me. This arrangement is a very lovely one. The melody has some delightful wanderings in the middle section, lots of unexpected complex chords.
Tune in tomorrow for more of my #music.every.day experiment!
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It's great that I can listen to your incredibly talented performance of an absolutely phenomenal cover of this magical music.
Thank you Elena Fortin
👍👏🌹🌹🌹💕.
@Володимир Thanks for listening!!
This is out of a 1944 movie. Many movies where the movie is forgotten but a featured song lives on as a standard. "Love is Where You Find It," comes to mind. Many others. Working a bunch of numbers from Brent's Pop Jazz book. Also, just started yesterday: I had picked up on tablet 2 versions of "Pennies from Heaven," the old standard version in duple with some half note trips and a jazz version, don't know whose. Looked at neither one till yesterday although in my last, unperformed vocal concert, I featured, worked on, the vocal. It was a fave since I heard the Skyliner's version way back. (Check out UA-cam, one has them standing in front of a jet plane. Listen for the young, 16 year old soprano, who could sing naturally into the stratosphere. I tried to get that version, although most of those singers are dead, including the lead singer/arranger. I traced it to his widow back east, no address or contact info, and then it may have been in possession of the estate with the lawyer. Anyway, gave up that angle. It was the finale of the regular program and the lead title of the concert program, "Pennies from Heaven: Adventures in Serious Humor." Super great program; never got to do it...yet? Will enjoy learning these piano versions, the one in traditional duple, the jazz version in swing. I might accompany myself on the easier version.
So many great songs from movies!
"Pennies From Heaven" is catchy! But you'd have to rewrite it as Dollars now.. lol. I listened to the Skyliner's version. It reminds me of music from "Forever Plaid". That was a fun little musical too.
Wow, you really did your homework there!
It is super challenging to accompany yourself while singing! Talk about multi-tasking. When I taught Yamaha Groups, I had to accompany myself, sing solfege (sometimes different than what I was playing), while teaching the children how to do sing (sometimes in harmony). You had to think ahead while still doing (musically) what you needed to be doing in the present moment. Challenging, super-stressful, but fun! It used ALL of my musical skills (and some that I didn't know I had). haha
@@elenafortinmusic More and more impressive.
@@elenafortinmusic As I work on the swing version of "Pennies," it seems pretty tame in the A material but the B contrasting section becomes really fun, "Based on themes by Dave Brubeck;" running bass and such with pretty wild melody stuff above. Fun. Doesn't say who the arranger is.
@@elenafortinmusic The program's subtitle was actually :Musical Adventures in Serious Humor." Brilliant and ambitious program, if I do say so myself.
@ I surprised myself because i had never challenged myself in that way!
Very nice rendition of a piece I don't know. So sweetly and sensitively played. Don't know the work from which it comes either. It's just nice hearing you noodle so quietly and peacefully. Is this like a Brent arrangement? or someone else's standard version. It's so easy to listen to something so pleasant and non-threatening. Some really nice effects here, on the quiet side.
It's Brent's version! I'm getting to the point where if I play an arrangement that's NOT his, I will point it out--haha! I didn't know this piece either. When I checked out the song list from Higher and Higher I didn't recognize any of the pieces. But it does have some very pleasant "noodling"!