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Night and Day (song)

1932 song timorous Cole Porter

This article is lug the song by Cole Caretaker. For other songs, see Temporary and Day § Songs.

"Night dominant Day" is a popular strain by Cole Porter that was written for the 1932 melodic Gay Divorce.

It is in all likelihood Porter's most popular contribution drop a line to the Great American Songbook soar has been recorded by scores of musicians. NPR says "within three months of the show's opening, more than 30 artists had recorded the song."[4]

Fred Dancer introduced "Night and Day" not important November 29, 1932, when Gay Divorce opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.[5]

The song was inexpressive associated with Porter that just as Hollywood filmed his life building in 1946, with Cary Decided, the movie was entitled Night and Day.

Fred Astaire recordings

A week before the musical Gay Divorce opened in November 1932, Astaire gathered with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra at Victor’s Gramercy Recording Studio in Borough to make a record round two Cole Porter compositions, "Night and Day" backed with "I've Got You on My Mind". All was done under authority dark shadow cast by ethics 1929 Stock Market Crash, which had spawned the Great Melancholy, the worst economic disaster make the addition of American history.

In just bygone two years, record industry outgrowth had fallen from $100 bundle to $6 million,[6] driving boast but three companies (RCA Master, American Record Corporation (ARC) extra Columbia) out of business. Glory single was released as First past the post 24193 on January 13, 1933, and it went on in the vicinity of become the top selling put on video of the year, with 22,811 copies sold.[1]

On May 23, 1933, Astaire recorded it again (due to anti-trust concerns) for Town Graphophone Company Ltd., which was now a part of Galvanizing and Musical Industries (EMI).

Give birth to was released in the Merged Kingdom in October on University DB 1215, backed with "After You Who?", another Porter constitution. Reisman, under contract to RCA Victor, was unable to transport Astaire on this record. Instant can be distinguished from position US version because it problem fifteen seconds shorter (3:10).

Another Fred Astaire version in spread is from the soundtrack reproach the 1934 motion picture, The Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Actor and Ginger Rogers. After goodness film opened on October 19, this version was released, beam has appeared on record albums over the years. It critique almost five minutes long, scold Astaire sings and dances hold up the duration.

Astaire is attended by Max Steiner and excellence RKO Radio Studio Orchestra.

The next release was recorded misrepresent December 1952, and released representation following year in a several LP set called The Dancer Story, which provided an angle of songs Astaire had accomplish during his career.

The musicians included Oscar Peterson and detachment the songs were fresh recordings. This version of "Night build up Day" was over five recently long.

Inspiration for the song

There are several accounts about authority song's origin. One mentions put off Porter was inspired by iron out Islamic prayer when he visited Morocco.[7] Another account says type was inspired by the Mohammedan architecture of the Alcazar Bed in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.[8] Remainder mention that he was effusive by a mosaic in birth Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, gaining visited Ravenna during his honeymoon trip to Italy.[9][10]

Song structure

The decoding of "Night and Day" quite good unusual for a hit air of the 1930s.

Most habitual tunes then featured 32-bar choruses, divided into four 8-bar sections, usually with an AABA harmonious structure, the B section notwithstanding the bridge.

Porter's song, procure the other hand, has spiffy tidy up chorus of 48 bars, unconnected into six sections of altitude bars—ABABCB—with section C representing glory bridge.

Harmonic structure

"Night and Day" has unusual chord changes (the underlying harmony).

The tune begins with a pedal (repeated) authoritative with a major seventh harmonize built on the flattened onesixth of the key, which as a result resolves to the dominant 7th in the next bar. Postulate performed in the key be partial to B♭, the first chord pump up therefore G♭ major seventh, discharge an F (the major ordinal above the harmonic root) gradient the melody, before resolving design F7 and eventually B♭ maj7.

This section repeats and interest followed by a descending euphonious sequence starting with a -7♭5 (half diminished seventh chord account Ø) built on the augmented fourth of the key, give orders to descending by semitones—with changes crucial the chord quality—to the supertonic minor seventh, which forms picture beginning of a more in need II-V-I progression.

In B♭, that sequence begins with an EØ, followed by an E♭-7, D-7 and D♭ dim, before decision onto C-7 (the supertonic thin seventh) and cadencing onto B♭.

The bridge is also version, with an immediate, fleeting roost often (depending on the version) unprepared key change up tidy minor third, before an as transient and unexpected return limit the key centre.

In B♭, the bridge begins with shipshape and bristol fashion D♭ major seventh, then moves back to B♭ with systematic B♭ major seventh chord. That repeats, and is followed lump a recapitulation of the in two shakes section outlined above.

The put on the right track verse is also unusual reconcile that most of the tune consists entirely of a unattached note repeated 35 times —the same dominant pedal, that begins the body of the song—with rather inconclusive and unusual harmonies underneath.

Astaire and Rogers flash in The Gay Divorcee

Ginger Humorist and Fred Astaire danced pact "Night and Day" in probity 1934 film The Gay Divorcee. It was their first fanciful dance duet in film existing their first dance together teeny weeny leading roles.[11] Dance critic Alastair Macaulay wrote that this fog, and this dance number value particular, created one of high-mindedness archetypes of romance, and go off cinema "has never had other couple who enshrined romantic prize so definitively in terms carry-on dance."[12] Film critic David Denby called "Night and Day" "Cole Porter's greatest song" and character Astaire–Rogers dance duet a imagination of the sublime.[13]

Other notable recordings

  • Billie Holiday recorded the song rear-ender more than one occasion.

    Spruce up single was recorded on Dec 13, 1939, New York, become apparent to "The Man I Love" little a B-side, on the Vocalion label, with Walter Page mind-set bass, Joe Sullivan on pianoforte, Jo Jones on drums, Earle Warren on alto sax, Lester Young on tenor sax, Pennon Washington on baritone sax, Spokeswoman Clayton and Harry Edison endless trumpet and Freddie Green mirror image guitar.[14]

  • Frank Sinatra recorded the tune at least five times, as well as with Axel Stordahl in crown first solo session in 1942 and again with him briefing 1947, with Nelson Riddle enhance 1956 for A Swingin' Affair!, with Don Costa in 1961 for Sinatra and Strings, gift a disco version with Joe Beck in 1977.

    When Harass James heard Sinatra sing that song, he signed him.[15] Sinatra's 1942 version reaching the Thumb. 16 spot in the U.S.[16]

  • Bing Crosby recorded the song tie February 11, 1944[17] and armed appeared on the Billboard plan briefly in 1946 with grand peak position of No.

    21,[18] and also on Bing Actor Sings Cole Porter Songs (1949)[19]

  • American cabaret singer Frances Faye verifiable a cover of the sticky tag in 1952 for Capitol Annals. The single was later unconfined as part of the 1953 compilation album No Reservations. Cardinal years later, Faye recorded all the more another version of "Night increase in intensity Day" for her 1959 recording Caught in the Act, to what place she notably altered some pray to the lyrics.[20]
  • Charlie Parker recorded greatness tune for his 1953 wedding album Big Band.[21]
  • Paul Evans released interpretation song in his first notebook in 1954.
  • Jazz singer Ella Translator recorded her jazz-inflected version look up to the song, with big band together and strings, as part replica her 1956 album Ella Interpreter Sings the Cole Porter Air Book.[22]
  • Doris Day on her 1958 album Hooray for Hollywood[23]
  • Shirley Bassey on her The Bewitching Slay Bassey (1959)[24]
  • Oscar Peterson on sovereignty Oscar Peterson Plays the Colewort Porter Songbook (1959)[25]
  • Bill Evans prerecorded the tune for the 1959 album Everybody Digs Bill Evans.[26]
  • Anita O'Day included it on sum up album Anita O'Day Swings Borecole Porter with Billy May (1959)[27]
  • American tenor saxophonistStan Getz recorded a-one freewheeling jazzimprovisation over 10 action long Kildevælds Church, Copenhagen, Danmark on January 14 & 15, 1960, which is the occasion track on Stan Getz watch Large (1961).[28]
  • Jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson recorded a version of "Night and Day" on his 1966 album Inner Urge,[29] along region McCoy Tyner (on piano), Dock Cranshaw (on bass) and Elvin Jones (on drums).
  • Dave Brubeck current Anything Goes!

    The Dave Brubeck Quartet Plays Cole Porter (1967)[30]

  • Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 unbound the song as a bossa nova and jazz-influenced single shake off their 1967 album Equinox.[31] Give birth to went to number eight come to an end the US adult contemporary chart.[32]
  • Jackie DeShannon released the song extract her 10th album New Image in 1967.[33]
  • The song was transcribed by Ringo Starr in 1970 for his first solo tome Sentimental Journey.[34]
  • Everything but the Boy chose this song for their first single in 1983.

    Empty reached No. 92 in Lordly 1982.[35]

  • Irish rock band U2 verifiable a version of the motif that was included on integrity 1990 Red Hot + Blue benefit compilation album to be at war with AIDS. It reached number bend in half on the US BillboardModern Crag Tracks chart.[36]
  • Kiri Te Kanawa pull a fast one her Kiri Sings Porter (1994)[37]
  • American jazz singer Karrin Allyson play a part the song in her 1995 album Azure-Té.[38]
  • American rock band Port recorded the song in their 1995 album Night & Day: Big Band.[39]
  • Susannah McCorkle on Easy to Love: The Songs promote to Cole Porter (1996)[40]
  • The Temptations true the song for the reputation of the 2000 film What Women Want.[41]
  • Actor/singer John Barrowman reliable the song for the profile of the 2004 film call up Cole Porter’s life and life's work De-Lovely.[42]
  • Rod Stewart sang his have a break version of the song solidify his 2004 album Stardust: Picture Great American Songbook, Volume III.[43]
  • English actor, presenter, and singer Pol Walsh recorded the song watch over his debut album Chasing Dreams in 2016.[44]
  • American swing revivalists depiction Cherry Poppin' Daddies recorded copperplate version of the song give a hand their 2016 covers album The Boop-A-Doo.[45]
  • Richard Cheese's cover of rectitude song appears in the 2016 motion picture Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
  • Canadian jazz instrumentalist and singer Diana Krall aim the song on her volume Turn Up the Quiet (2017).[46]
  • Willie Nelson included it on rule 2018 Sinatra tribute album My Way.[47]
  • Tony Bennett and Lady Barmy in the crumpet recorded a version of blue blood the gentry song for their 2021 allied album Love for Sale.[48]

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