Table of Contents
Intro: What Shall I Say? 11
Why Was I Born? 12
Love Me or Leave Me 13
My First Impression of You 14
How Could You? 15
One, Two, Button Your Shoe 15
Missa Cantata / Sung Mass* 18
Left Alone 19
Say It Isn't So 20
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo 21
(You Ain't Gonna Bother Me) No More 22
Practice Makes Perfect 24
Ghost of Yesterday 25
Don't Worry 'Bout Me 26
Sailboat in the Moonlight 26
Havin' Myself a Time 27
Guilty 27
Gloomy Sunday 28
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie 29
God Bless the Child 30
Back in Your Own Backyard 31
Jeepers Creepers 32
I'll Never Be the Same 34
Darn That Dream 38
I Hear Music: The Blues Are Brewin' 39
"St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy, 1914 40
It's the Same Old Story 41
But Beautiful 41
Ave Maria* 42
I Wished on the Moon 42
If My Heart Could Only Talk 44
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do 45
No Good Man: I'm a Fool to Want You 46
I'm Painting the Town Red 47
Trav'lin' Light 47
You Go to My Head 48
Trav'lin' All Alone 49
Bridge: I Cover the Waterfront 52
Autumn in New York 56
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off 57
Love for Sale 58
Time on My Hands 59
Lady's Back in Town 59
Do Your Duty 60
Just One More Chance 60
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance 61
You Gotta Show Me 62
Spreadin' the Rhythm Around 63
This Is Heaven to Me 66
Beyond the Sea (La Her) 66
A Fine Romance- 68
You Let Me Down 69
Matinee: American Beauty* 70
But Not for Me 72
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me 74
How Deep Is the Ocean? 76
Too Marvelous for Words 77
Everything I Have Is Yours 78
That's Life I Guess 78
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 79
Pennies from Heaven 80
When You're Smiling 81
Our Love Is Different 81
Just Friends 82
I Get a Kick Out Of You 83
Body and Soul 83
Nice Work If You Can Get It 84
Matinee: Emperor Jones* 85
It's Like Reaching for the Moon 86
I Can't Face the Music 86
Twenty-Four Hours a Day 88
Sophisticated Lady 89
I'm in a Low Down Groove 90
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer 91
I Only Have Eyes for You 92
That's All I Ask of You 93
Them There Eyes 93
I'm a Fool to Want You 94
I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) 94
These 'N' That 'N' Those 95
Now They Call It Swing 95
Things Are Looking Up 96
I've Got a Date with a Dream 96
Detour Ahead 97
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? 100
Foolin' Myself 100
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) 101
Moonlight in Vermont 101
Please Don't Do It in Here 102
I Don't Know If I'm Coming or Going 102
With Thee I Swing 103
Big Stuff 104
The Way You Look Tonight 104
You Turned the Tables on Me 105
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 105
I Cried for You 106
If Dreams Come True 107
Coda: Strange Fruit 108
Afterword 113
Biographies 114
References 116
Further Reading and Listening 116
