Great Lyrics
Let’s listen to the words. Pate’s Pace is offering a special edition where we will concentrate on the lyrics. And to learn more about the songwriters, click on their pictures.
Here’s To Life, written by Artie Butler & Phyllis Molinary (both pictured below), is the first song on Shirley Horn’s Here’s To Life CD.
When I Was A Child, written by Floyd Huddleston (pictured) and Mark McIntyre, and
Oh Love Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
composed by William Bowers
both sung by Peggy Lee
on her If You Go recording.
Children Will Listen
composed by Steven Sondheim
sung by Barbra Streisand
on her Back to Broadway CD.
An Older Man Is Like an Elegant Wine, composed by Lee Wing, and A Woman’s Intuition, written by Victor Young and Ned Washington (all pictured below), both on Carol Sloane’s Sweet and Slow CD.
Don’t Touch Me
composed by Teddy Edwards
sung by Ernestine Anderson
on Blues, Dues & Love News
I Told You So
composed by Duncan Lamont,
sung by Natalie Cole
on Ask A Woman Who Knows
Where Do You Start (music by Johnny Mandel with lyrics by Alan & Marilyn Bergman – all three pictured below) on Shirley Horn’s Here’s To Life, and Someone You’ve Loved composed by Johnny Pate and first recorded by Shirley Horn in 1965 on Travelin Light.
You Don’t Have to Say You’re Sorry
written by Patti Austin
sung by Vanessa Williams
on The Sweetest Days
Every time we say goodbye
composed by Cole Porter
sung by Diane Schuur
on In Tribute
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December 5th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Thanks for the recommendation of Carol Sloan’s version of “A Woman’s Intuition”. I’ve been looking for it for a long time not knowing her name.
I am the niece of the late Victor Young, collecting memorabilia for my children and grandchildren so they will know their unique heritage. I grew up in his home feeling closer to him than my own father. He had no children of his own so I was the daughter he never had.
Ned Washington, who I knew very well also, wrote dynamite lyrics. It certainly isn’t easy to take a song with that title and rhyme with ‘intuition’ and make sense.