Song how long has this been going on

The kiss has inspired a question much less prosaic than how long has some romance or affair been going on. Apparently this is more than just a first kiss with this partner. This is the first kiss, as the verse tells us -- other than those childhood kisses from "sisters, cousins and aunties" that evidently repulsed her and put her off any further kissing until the kiss in point. Why didn't anyone tell me? Another revelation we might be inclined to contemplate is how could the producers of Funny Face have been "dunce" enough to cut this song, and even after Florenz Ziegfeld was smart enough to recognize some quality in it and put it in a show of his the next year, how could independent singers, who are always on the prowl for a good song, have missed it for another decade until Lee Wiley and Peggy Lee found it in and respectively.

And even after their remarkable performances, how could it have lingered virtually unnoticed for another decade until its status as a great American song, a standard, was canonized by recordings by Ella Fitzgerald and others beginning around How could so many music people have missed this song for all those years? Maybe they just didn't pick up on what that "This" is.

In any case, they haven't missed it since. Instead, he says, it is a song that is "malleable to a modern sensibility. Gioia gives two examples of modern interpretations to support these assertions: First he points out that the Ray Charles interpretation could make one think that the Gershwins had written the song with Charles in mind, and second, Brad Mehldau's live performance at the Village Vanguard from could persuade you that "this is an adventurous new millennium piano piece.

One reason for this may be that the first seven lines cut to the chase, to the song's emotional center by means of their sensuosity expressed through Ira's masterful use of the colloquial:. I could cry salty tears; Where have I been all these years?

Little wow, Tell me now: How long has this been going on? The effect of the phrase "salty tears" is to make the listener feel with great immediacy the near overwhelming regret the singer has experienced. The verse reveals that the regret is for having "been blind" to and having "lost out" on the kind of feelings the kiss she just experienced could have opened up to her over "all these years. For Rosenberg the phrase as a whole conveys "warmth and intimacy but is redeemed from sentimentality by its colloquiality and freshness.

It is pure Ira. Press, She recorded the song six times. For a selection, see the Amazon digital discography. She begins with the first ten lines of the second verse following it with the first refrain and ending by creating a variation on the last seven lines of that refrain. Click here to read Cafe Songbook lyrics policy.

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For further information on Cafe Songbook policies with regard to the above matters, see our "About Cafe Songbook " page link at top and bottom of every page. Notes : Lee Wiley's series of albums devoted to the songs of individual songwriters beginning with the Gershwin and Porter albums, combined on the CD shown above, were in fact the first of what has come to be known as songbook albums, now most famously associated with the Songbook albums of Ella Fitzgerald.

Lee, however, preceded Ella in this endeavor by some two decades. In the album's liner notes, Larry Carr writes of Wiley, who came to New York from her home state of Oklahoma, "Her singing was intimate and intelligent, warm and wistful, sweet and sensual.

Wiley sings the first refrain, then comes an instrumental break, followed by Lee singing the second half of the second refrain. She omits both verses and the reprise because of their specificity with regard to the character in the show for which the song was written.

For Rhoda Koenig , this is the "supreme" recording of the song because Wiley captures both of its major themes. In her hands, "the song trembles with the sound of innocence meeting experience.

What Lee did, according to Rhoda Koenig , was "to fix the change in style from the s" during which the standard was either sopranos from the world of operetta or flappers from the world of the Charleston. Lee changed the tempo to "very, very slow" presenting the song in an intimate, even sensual confessional style that was previously, except for Wiley, unheard. The track begins and ends with the first refrain sung at a slow, deliberate tempo filled with a reserved emotion.

Lee's vocal is preceded by a piano Intro. In the photo montage on the music-video at left, the pianist pictured is Teddy Wilson, who often played with Goodman -- but not here.

In the photo below, from , it looks to be Powell. After Lee sings there is an instrumental conclusion by the Goodman Orchestra in the same spirit -- with two brief Goodman clarinet breaks. This suggests that the OKeh got the show title from the sheet music published in even before the show went into tryouts and before the show title Smarty had been replaced by Funny Face. It was not unusual for sheet music publishers to distribute these early versions of the music to promote early recordings, which was beneficial to everybody.

Music-Video : same track as on album above. We are not certain if that is Powell at the piano in the photo. We are sure it's not Teddy Wilson. These tracks were created in and , remastered from the Fitzgerald vinyl albums Ella Sings Gershwin Decca and Songs in a Mellow Mood Decca plus eight other standards added. Of the accompaniment by pianist Ellis Larkins, Ron Wynn writes at CD Universe that he was "long a favorite of vocalists everywhere for his ability to support without intruding," which left her "sublime voice, to interpret and dissect sentiments, themes, and moods with the touch of a master.

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