The world wide web will be awash with Valentine's songs today, so here's one too - a jazz standard but with a darker edge, embellished with extraordinarily beautiful trumpet and voice of Chet Baker. The song, originally written by written in 1943 by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Frank Loesser, a pair who write for a roll call of the greatest and most famous singers. It first appeared in the film Happy Go Lucky, that same year, performed by Mary Martin. But of all the versions, Baker's has a transcendent beauty, his trumpet and slightly breathy voice perfectly matched. The song is all about looking fall deeply in love and lose themselves in each other, but the womanising and originally handsome Baker instead lost himself in heroin and alcohol. Nevertheless it remains a sublime rendition of what is, after all, a very romantic song sprinkled with delicious phrasing in lyrics, and on the trumpet.
Let's get lost
Lost in each other's arms
Let's get lost
Let them send out alarms
And though they'll think us rather rude
Let's tell the world
We're in that crazy mood.
Let's defrost
In a romantic mist
Let's get crossed
Off everybody's list
To celebrate this night we found each other
Mmm, let's get lost.
Let's defrost
In a romantic mist
Let's get crossed
Off everybody's list
To celebrate this night we found each other
Mmm, let's get lost.
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