Another practice set -- about 20 minutes.

Brown Eyed Girl

Margeritaville

Moon River

Our Day Will Come

Pianoman 

Route 66

Satin Doll

20 minutes of goofing around & practicing vocals....

Looks like we finally have an electronic notebook to read chords from.

I'm still working out of a box of paper books but it looks like I'll soon be able to shift everything to the ipad. 

Satin Doll by Duke Ellington is one of the most famous standards of all time.

Satin Doll, a standard by Ellington is practically an anachronism in the music world so I had to force myself to get interested in it and make it fresh again for myself, somehow-- some way. I decided to take closer look at the lyrics-- which I never understood-- through an article on the net where we find meanings for all the songs we never knew the meanings of and thus recharged my interest. I've been collecting the youtube'd versions of the song that seem interesting to me as well. The following is a playlist that starts off with my performance and continues with a half dozen other various Youtubes of others doing it so you can get a better idea of the overall idea of the song. 

Discussion and separate youtubed versions....
 SATIN DOLL

"There will never be another you", a long time standard-- MUST have lyrics rewritten.

by Rick Potvin @56 years of age, unbelievably to him. How did that happen? What a weird experience-- getting "older".

Great standard tunes like "There Will Never Be Another You" have great memorable one-line choruses like that very sentence... 'there will never be another you' evokes uniqueness of a love interest. I can attest to that feeling. It's a really interesting thought.

However-- if you go through the lyrics of this tune completely, it's just awful. Let's look at them. I'll highlight with bold print the awful parts. 

(Mack Gordon - Harry Warren)

There will be many other nights like this
And I'll be standing here with someone new
There'll be other songs to sing another fall another spring
But there will never be another you.

There'll be other lips that I may kiss
But they won't thrill me like yours used to do
Yes I may dream a million dreams but how can they come true
Find More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com
If there will never ever be another you.

--- Instrumental ---

There'll be other songs to sing another fall another spring
But there will never be another you.

There'll be other lips that I may kiss
But they won't thrill me like yours used to do
Yes I may dream a million dreams but how can they come true
If there will never ever be another you...

End of quoted lyrics... my comment--: These lyrics are RIDICULOUS! Many times, I find myself attempting to sing a song that I like because of the chord changes or melody. And I'm shocked by the inanity of those lyrics-- We have a situation where the male singer acknowledges the lady is unique in a good way-- but then he turns on her, telling her he'll kiss others and that she's already HISTORY to him.. that he's moving on. What is this? This is terrible. And the song is upbeat... as if the lady is going to enjoy this? What kind of mind writes lyrics like this? I had to rewrite them to bring myself to even mouthe the words-- otherwise, it's just too awful... Here they are.

(Mack Gordon - Harry Warren)

There will be many other nights like this
And I'll be standing here with someone new  ONLY YOU
There'll be other songs to sing another fall another spring
But there will never be another you.

There'll be  HAVE BEEN other lips that I may HAVE kissED
But they won't DIDNT thrill me like yours used to SURELY do
Yes I may dream a million dreams but how can they come trueFind More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com
If There will never ever be another you.
--- Instrumental ---

There'll be other songs to sing another fall another spring
But there will never be another you.

There'll be other lips that I may kiss
But they won't thrill me like yours used to do
Yes I may dream a million dreams but how can they come true
If there will never ever be another you...

My comment-- So the changes there reflect what I think would be more interesting and acceptable lyrics. Here are several artists performing the song,... I'll add my own rendition at the end shortly.. 

DISCUSSION AND several Youtube versions of this song along with analysis of chord changes and my own rendition... click: 
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU

If you don't want to go through the lesson discussion-- and you'd rather just listen, click here.[HERE]

Hear Rick and Dorothy at the Piano at GEORGE AND SONS ASIAN CUISINE in Scottsdale on Mothers Day May 12 2013, 5:30-9:00 pm

George and Son's Asian Cuisine Restaurant - Gallery


SEARCH FOR GEORGE'S ON GOOGLE
https://encrypted.google.com/searchhl=en&source=hp&q=George+and+sons+restaurant+scottsdale&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=2

DISCUSSION
GEORGE & sons ASIAN CUISINE - Mother's Day - 2013

On the Sunny Side of the Street - Sing Along With Rick at the Piano!

Ok now click on the following YELLOWLINK... to view others singing and playing this song... and after you've heard it from several others, besides me, I'll take you through a chord-change analysis... which is really really really really important to "get"... It's not just reading music-- it's understanding the flow of harmony.
Rick Potvin | Piano Lessons in Phoenix, Arizona: ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET

Beautiful Brown Eyes - an important lesson song for students.

Discussion- view entire thread-- with videos in one window.
Rick Potvin | Piano Lessons in Phoenix, Arizona: LESSONS - Beautiful Brown Eyes

Have dinner and listen to Dorothy and me on LIVE PIANO at George and Sons in Scottsdale tonight!

George and Son's Asian Cuisine Restaurant - Gallery

george and sons restaurant scottsdale - Google Search

Sing Along to the CHORUS-- with Rick!

Discussion and John Denver's live performance-- (He's MY piano instructor-- professional performances "are" lessons in themselves. His vocal is obviously excellent-- and he plays it a bit slower.
BACK HOME AGAIN- John Denver's performance.

Sunday Afternoon Jazz to work by on Thursday.