If I Give My Heart To You - Brewster-Crane-Jacobs

[Keith88]

You're not butting in, Jer. I always find your musical ideas to be interesting and instructive.

"If I Give My Heart To You" is a straightforward 32-bar AABA tune written in 1953. One issue with it is its diatonic, scalar melody which doesn't lend itself to interesting harmonic motion. Because of this, I kept the harmony quite simple. Nonetheless, our charts are quite similar, including the use of the NC (which I learned from Jer's charts).

I think I learned this tune as a child from Denise Lor's somewhat hysterical 1954 performance. There is another early performance by Doris Day which is marred by an annoying male chorus singing "Bub bub bub bub bub" behind her. For sentimental reasons perhaps, I prefer Kitty Kallen's rendition.

If I Give My Heart To You - Crane Jacobs Brewster

I've still got my copy of Volume 2. It's got wonderful old tunes in it. The book takes me back to my high school days in the early 1960s…