Don't Worry 'Bout Me" A Re Start for the Great American Songbook Blog: I previously had announced a hiatus period for this blog since I wanted to start a new blog dealing specifically with the life and career of Harold Arlen and his numerous lyricist partners. That blog now has 30 posts in just over one month with another 50 or so in the plan.
That blog is : haroldarlentheamericannative.blogspot.com.
In reviewing the many songs Arlen created, I also kept discovering more great songs that originally were not included in the initial blog project. I will try to rectify that situation by adding new songs drawn from the same deep well of compositions written in the classic popular music style.
" Don't Worry About Me" Rube Bloom was a great piano player who wrote only a few songs but of a very high standard. An earlier post on this blog drew attention to 1939's "Day In-Day Out" with an excellent lyric by Johnny Mercer. It was a song with an insistent melody, passion and rhythmic drive.
In the same year, Bloom , now with lyricist Ted Koehler, wrote " Don't Worry 'Bout Me " whose verse starts with a mournful almost depressngl soliloquy . However, the chorus now adopts a completely different attitude than the title had suggested.. The line "Don't Worry 'Bout Me, I'll get Along "" suggest that things will work out regardless of the obstacles in life and in relationships. The first section is replete with repeated notes which do generate musical tension but in the second section, the melody adopts a more graceful arc that singers caress very gracefully.
The performance is by Joni Mitchell, a wonderful singer songwriter who has demonstrated an ability to sing jazz standards in a very authoritative and soulful manner, especially since her voice has deepened and added sonic coloration as evidenced in this song.
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80F982r5dh4
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