Confessin'
1930 popular jazz standard
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"(I'm) Confessin' (that I Love You)" (also known as "Confessin'", "I'm Confessin'", and "Confessin' that I Love You") is a jazz and popular standard that has been recorded many times.
"Lookin' for Another Sweetie" (1929)
| "Lookin' for Another Sweetie" | |
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| Song | |
| Published | 1929 |
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The song was first produced, with different lyrics, as "Lookin' For Another Sweetie", credited to Chris Smith and Sterling Grant and recorded by Thomas "Fats" Waller & His Babies on December 18, 1929.[1]
"Confessin'" (1930)
In 1930, it was reborn as "Confessin'", with new lyrics by Al J. Neiburg;[2] the music this time was credited to Ralph Edward 'Doc' Daugherty[3][4] and Ellis Reynolds.[2]
Louis Armstrong made his first,[2] and highly influential, recording of the song in August 1930,[5] and continued to play it throughout his career.[6][7] Unlike the crooners, Armstrong did not try to deliver the original song's lyrics or melody; instead, he smeared and dropped lyrics and added melodic scat breaks.[8]
Cover versions
Other important recorded versions were done by:
- Jesse Crawford (1930)
- Chester Gaylord (1930)
- Seger Ellis (1930)
- Guy Lombardo (1930), Rudy Vallée (1930)
- Django Reinhardt (1934)
- Perry Como (1945)
- Les Paul and Mary Ford (1952)
- Ricky Nelson (1957)
- Frank Ifield (1963) â This cover was a number one hit in the United Kingdom and Ireland.[9]
- Dean Martin (1964)
- Thelonious Monk (1965)
- Anne Murray (1993)
- Allen Toussaint (2016)
- Diana Krall (2017)
- Samara Joy (2022)
See also
External links
- Confessin': Scores at the International Music Score Library Project