https://youtube/watch?v=_u7x-Q3oTjQ Day #12 of 1930s Month: I Can’t Get Started by Bunny Berigan. Released as a single in 1937 I Cant Get Started is the plaintive song of a man who has achieved and won everything he could hope for, except the attention of the woman he desires. It is most exceptional in that Gershwin’s lyrics (Ive flown around the world in a plane ... Settled revolutions in Spain ... Been consulted by Franklin D ... Greta Garbo has asked me to tea) are so topical and totally dated to the headlines of the 1930s that they break the mold for ballads. Yet they have such a clever, endearing charm that only a brave singer will dare to replace them. “Ive flown around the world in a plane Ive settled revolutions in Spain And the North Pole I have charted Still I cant get started with you On the golf course, Im under par Metro Goldwyn have asked me to star Ive got a house, a showplace Still I cant get no place with you Cause youre so supreme Lyrics I write of you, I dream Dream day and night of you And I scheme just for the sight of you Baby, what good does it do? Ive been consulted by Franklin D Greta Garbo has had me to tea Still Im broken-hearted Cause I cant get started with you...”
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:25:00 +0000