THE MOVIE, THE SANDPIPER wasn't as big a hit as the song Johnny Mandel and Paul Webster wrote for it. It's one of those standards most of the good and a lot of the bad singers and instrumentalists of the era performed but one I'd never much listened to before being reminded from the Jerome Kern songs posted a few Mondays ago of Dick Nash's trombone playing and I found a Youtube of him performing it.
Which led to the song going on in my head, remembering a lot of different singers, some great, some not great and the original from the movie, maybe the most forgettable of those I remember. It's the kind of song that suffered a lot from being as heard in dentist offices, elevators and supermarket aisles.
I decided to post Rebecca Parris singing it with the verse, a rarity that almost no one sang. She was compared well with Sarah Vaughn, I think this gives you some idea of why.
And if you want a change after that.
Ron Carter
No time to look up credits tonight, sorry. Wish they'd give them when they post videos. It would make this a lot easier.
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