Ella sings " Like Someone in Love" A pure melody by Jimmy Van Heusen.
Jimmy Van Heusen and lyricst Johnny Burke first wrote film songs for Bing Crosby. Imagination , Darn that Dream, Polka Dots and Moonbeams are still popular with singers and jazz players.
In 1944 for Crosby, Van Heusen wrote Like Someone in Love, a pure melody which popular song archivist Alec Wilder concluded that " The influence of Jerome Kern is manifest. It is a simply lovely melodic line.." Jerome Kern was a master of a melodic , singing line and Ella Fitzgerald honors the Van Heusen melody singing so tenderly and without pyrotechnics that she can often bring to up tempo songs.
Great singers like Ellla, Sinatra, Torme and Tony Bennett have the uncanny faculty to understand what the song is about and create performances that bring the words and music to life as the songwriters intended.
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