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@sergentpeppers1 I like sense as well as sound, in which regard, perhaps you could make some, by explaining what you are trying to say.

1982 on Enja. Great playing by George Mraz and Al Foster too.

Gardocki1095,

You have the last line of the lyric wrong. It is "Color my world with hope of loving you," not the less than sensible "Color my world in poems of love in you." Please fix it.

@Gardocki1095

You have the last line of the lyric wrong. It is "Color my world with hope of loving you," not the less than sensible "Color my world in poems of love in you." Please fix it.

@jlc122779 "La Notte" (1961).

@ljliljohn Pepper Adams (doing a not very sympatico accompaniment, in my opinion). See the Helen Merrill album "Chasin' the Bird" (Mercury, 1979).

@kingusmcgee "Rainy Day" isn't in front. He starts with a verse of "Last Night When We Were Young," then goes to Rainy Day, and returns to Last Night. An envelope has two sides.

VanHeusen was very good, but Harold Arlen was no slouch.

@jessthehorse The jaunty little rhythm would be fine in an instrumental cover of this song, but in a sung version it completely undermines the lyric. This is a song about someone unexpectedly encountering a lost love, and finding that they still care deeply, while the other has moved on. Helen ...

@ansyf125 Like so many other hard to find items, this CD is available on GEMM. I have used them many times obtain out of print CDs: gemm.com

@TheAlysheba I bought only her first few albums, and my interest waned as her recordings became more "produced," in the late '70s, so I didn't know, until I consulted the allmusic.com website, that both of the songs you ask about are on her 1977 album "Sweet Forgiveness." Go to her discography o...

Scratch England (below) -- England? -- California.

Flint, NY, not Michigan. Flint, NY is not even a village; just a hamlet; better to say Seneca, NY.

That clueless woman laughing near the end has a place in the Inferno laid out for her.

Bill Evans does not appear in this song, or on this album. This is from the album "Helen Merrill," recorded in December of 1954. That is Clifford Brown on trumpet, but the piano player is Jimmy Jones. Evans appears on Merrill's album "The Nearness of You," recorded a few years later.

Great song.

Alan Broadbent, the pianst and sole accompaniment on this album, is so very good here. One of the most talented jazz pianists of his generation, but also one of the best vocal accompanists, who helps lift every song on the album.

You actually do a voice over -- of stunning banality and humorlessness -- while this film clip is playing? One might as well recite the telephone book over Mozart.

Worse, your comments are, frankly, witless and illiterate. "Orientated" is not a word, and "mindset" is, in most places, barely r...

She owns this song. An amazing performance by a 24 year old, mature beyond her years, with the assurance and courage to sing slowly. Unforgettable.

This was the last song they played that night. Ten days later Scott Lafaro was dead.

For many years I've felt that there must be a special place in hell for that woman who laughs -- twice -- during the final moments of this beautiful played song.