Brenda Lee - After You've Gone ✈✈

A famous song done with a twist. She shouts "OK!" and begins an up-tempo verse. In other words, "After you've gone", I am going to party. Very funny! Leave it to Brenda to come up with a unique interpretation. There are many fast versions of the song, but can't recall a vocalist having this attitude. Clip has some missing frames and audio dropouts. After some manipulation, I was able to sync the audio. Its worth preserving because she did not record this tune.

Original recording was Marion Harris (1918). There followed seemingly hundreds of covers. Among them were Django Reinhardt (1934), Judy Garland (1936 14 yrs old!), Louis Armstrong (1929), Fats Waller (1930), Bessie Smith (1927), Paul Whiteman (1930), Benny Goodman (1935) and Lionel Hampton (1937).

To hear other versions, see the playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2DFC45ADC29C66CC

For more song information see Wikipedia entry: http://tinyurl.com/274j9zd

Song by Turner Layton, with lyrics by Henry Creamer (1918).

Lyrics as sung by Brenda Lee

After you've gone and left me crying,
After you've gone there's no denying,
You'll feel bluer, you'll feel so sad,
You'll miss the best pal that you ever had.
There'll come a time, now don't you forget it,
There'll come a time when you'll regret it.

Some day when you grow lonely,
Your heart will break like mine and you'll want me only,
After you've gone, after you've gone away

After you've gone and you left me crying,
Yeah, after you've gone there's no denying,
You'll feel bluer, you're gonna feel so sad,
You're gonna miss the best pal you ever had.
There'll come a time, don't you forget it,
There'll come a time when you'll regret it.

Some day when you grow lonely,
Your heart will break like mine and you'll want me only,
After you've gone, after you've gone away

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Music

Tags:

• Live Performance
• Jazz

[wilburhog]

She's not very big is she ? Big powerful voice for what appears to be a small person.

[MrCallipygous]

@wilburhog Brenda is only 4' 9", but with perfect breath control. Still, how she manages to process a large amount of air through her tiny body is a mystery.

[rubyann179]

Jolson I am sure would have loved to see and hear this sung by Brenda. Bravo Brenda- real good.

[noaei]

I love this song so much, with Brenda on fire, but what I want to know most of all is what that awesome keystroke is to make the airplanes in the title! Please tell.

[brad04970]

this song was a hit in 1918

[rotyoung]

thank you for the upload!

[maplover1]

Wow! I have all of Brenda's US records and yet never saw or heard this song by her until now. Great job..wish she had recorded it too.

[uningeranonim]

eaven in those years the songs were cool , amazyng lyrics :)