Happy As The Day is Long  The 1933 Cotton Club Parade   had an Arlen/Koehler rhythm song which was used to showcase the club bandleaders Cab Calloway and then Duke Ellington, This a rousing, take-no--prisoners jazz number artfully sung by Rebecca Kilgore, noted cabaret and standards stylist and a hot small group ensemble.
Arlen, as a teenager in Buffalo, led his own jazz ensemble as pianist, vocalist and arranger.

https://youtu.be/F9-M0BtXX3A 

Classic American Popular Song: I''ll Take Romance

Classic American Popular Song: I''ll Take Romance: I'll Take Romance is a virtuoso showpiece for Eydie Gorme whose vocal  range keeps getting higher and higher right to the top. https:/...

Classic American Popular Song: GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY

Classic American Popular Song: GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY: Glad To Be Unhappyis a song from Rodgers &Hart's On YourvToes. It explores the ectasy and pain in some love relationships/ The rela...

GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY

Glad To Be Unhappyis a song from Rodgers &Hart's On YourvToes. It explores the ectasy and pain in some love relationships/ The relatively lengthy verse mentions " Taking it on the chin And losing that bright toothpaste grin, My mental state's all a jumble, I sst around and sadly mumble" then the main chorus starts with " Fools rush in and here am I ,very glad to be unhappy etc"
The clarity , phrasing and diction of Eydie Gorme's performance is wonderful, a tribute to the memory of a highly underrated singer and longtime wife and partner of Steve Lawrence.

https://youtu.be/2J3sTeKijag

I''ll Take Romance

I'll Take Romance is a virtuoso showpiece for Eydie Gorme whose vocal  range keeps getting higher and higher right to the top.

https://youtu.be/mTTsr9UsS68

Frank Sinatra & Tom Jobim - Baubles, bangles and beads

THAT''S ALL-fROM SINATRA TO BUBLE

That's All-From Sinatra to Buble   Nat Cole introduced this wonderful ballad written by Allan Brandt, Lyrics by Bob Haymes, brother of crooner Dick Haymes. Song scholar Alec Wilder said it was " one of the last, free-flowing and natural melodies in the grand pop tradition being  one of the warmest, most natural and least  studied  songs" that Wilder knew.
Frank Sinatra established a style based in clear,unforced articulation, proper phrasing and interpreting the intent behind the words. He has influenced generations of ballad singers, including Michael Buble. in his version, Buble demonstrates the same dramatic ability to interpret  what the songwriters created. Sixty-Seven years after it was written there are always new and vital interpretations, That makes a song a Standard.
 https://youtu.be/SINfqtCq0lY

https://youtu.be/ppSTGS7CDpk