Justin Bieber's Valentine To KV's Marion Fox

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Halloween 1959 At 20 Monroe Street

left to right, front row:
Renee Leder, Sheila Suss, Alison Shue, Marcia Hieger
2nd row:
Susan Miller, Nancy Bueller, Valerie Hammel, Elaine Aaronson, Larry Levy
back row:
Shawn Bayer, David Bellel, Chester Kaplan, Robert Simmons, Joe Maldonado, Richard Karney, Glen Farber
True it's not Valentine's Day, but there were a few pre-adolescents in love.

Happy Valentine's Day: Let There Be Love, Julie London 1964

Bobby Troup was the pianist of the quintet and didn't play in this performance. The other musicians were Joe Burnett (trumpet), Don Bagley (bass), Dewells Barton (drums) and Dennis Budimir (guitar)

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If You Lived 100 Years Ago Valentine

My Funny Valentine: Gerry Mulligan & Art Farmer

My Funny Valentine: Joni James

My Funny Valentine: Eydie Gorme

Just In From Portland, Oregon

Just under the Valentine's Day wire, due to the time zone difference, another KV dancing couple celebrates their love for all to enjoy

LES Valentine: 2/13/09, Close-Up

A collage of some of the images from the previous slide show that may have been hard to recognize, featuring such prominent new additions to the LES such as Babeland and the Doughnut Plant

LES Valentine: 2/13/09

Ella's version, complete with the verse: The best saved for last of this year's valentines. Pics mostly on Orchard between Broome and Grand
from jazz standards

In 1927 Lorenz Hart took the novel approach of combining antiquated words with contemporary colloquialisms in “Thou Swell” from A Connecticut Yankee (1927), resulting in lines such as “I choose a sweet lollapalooza in thee.” In “My Funny Valentine” the verse repeats his previous approach with “thou’s” and “thy’s” and “doth” and “hast”; for example, “Thou knowest not my dim witted friend.” But the refrain does not include any archaic words or colloquialisms, with the exception of “my favorite work of art”.
The verse of “My Funny Valentine” is rarely sung, possibly because of the outmoded words or perhaps because of another distinction: it contains only a single-note melody.
Richard Rodgers’ refrain has a descending bass line, which William Zinsser (Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs) says, “is the foundation that holds up the whole song.” Its engaging melody is basically the repetition of a six-note phrase in the first four bars followed by variations on that theme. This is a very nicely constructed melody that rises tentatively, then falls repeatedly, only to rise a bit higher each time. The harmonic progression of the “A” section is led by a chromatically descending bass line that changes each chord (somewhat reminiscent of “In A Sentimental Mood” and “Blue Skies”).

VERSE
Behold the way our fine feathered-friend
His virtue doth parade.
Thou knowest not, my dim witted friend,
The picture Thou hast made.
Thy vacant brow and thy tousled hair
Conceal Thy good intent.
Thou, noble upright, truthful, sincere
And slightly dopey gent,- you are...
REFRAIN:
My funny valentine,
Sweet comic valentine,
You make me smile with my heart.
You looks are laughable, unphotographable;
Yet you're my favorite work of art.
Is your figure less than Greek?
Is your mouth a little bit weak?
When you open it to speak, are you smart?
Don't change a hair for me,
Not if you care for me.
Stay little valentine stay.
Each day is valentine's day.

Two KV Lovebirds Perform For You A Valentine's Day Soft Schu-mer

It looks like it's also for President's Day as well

My Funny Valentine

Frank and daughter Nancy

My Funny Valentine: Sarah Vaughn

Recorded in 1973 in Tokyo at the Sun Plaza. This is heralded as some of her greatest work. The seventies also heralded a rebirth in Vaughan's recording activity.
Sarah Lois Vaughan (nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One") (March 27, 1924, Newark, New Jersey – April 3, 1990, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz singer, described as "possessor of one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century".
Sarah Vaughan was a three time Grammy Award winner.The National Endowment for the Arts honored Sarah Vaughan with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989.
the great lorenz hart lyric

My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet you're my favorite work of art
Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?
But don't change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day
Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?
But don't you change one hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day

My Funny Valentine: Woody Herman 1985

Recorded in 1985 on the SS Norway