"THERE'S A LULL IN MY LIFE" A SONG THAT SHOULD BE BETTER KNOWN

There's A Lull in My Life" A Song That Should be Better Known. . In addition to the composers most associated with The Great American Songbook ( Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Rodgers etc) there is quite a roster of composers who are not well known . They have  written quite a number of excellent songs that do not pale in comparison with those of the Masters. Take Harry Revel, for example. He emigrated to the US from England and worked on Broadway before moving to Hollywood in the 1930's and wrote film music and songs such as " Did You Ever See A dream Walking"  " With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" and " Stay As Sweet As You Are." However, " There's A Lull In My Life" is a much superior composition with lyrics by Mack Gordon. It was introduced by Alice Faye in the the 1937 Twentieth Century Fox movie " Wake Up And Live." In the release or bridge, Revel repeats  one note twelve times under a shifting harmonic structure that is anything but boring because of the tension that is created by this clever device.
Nat King Cole and George Shearing had an excellent version in the 1960's.  Natalie Cole paid tribute to her father's memory with a remarkable performance made even more effective by an outstanding arrangement. I need to offer a strong opinion of mine that is based on the observation that a good song may stand on its own; a singer may equally do justice to the intrinsic merits of the song but if an  imaginative arrangement and orchestration is added to the mix, then you have a very special presentation. One need only to think of Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Axel Stordahl, Johnny Mandel or Claus Ogerman and how they have added lustre to Sinatra, Bennett, Fitzgerald and Krall recordings.
The string writing in this version is particularly impressive.

LINK:  http://youtu.be/VAAOLArqxw4