Etta Jones - Where or When (Prestige Records 1960) descargar videos gratis

"Where or When" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes In Arms. It was first performed by Ray Heatherton and Mitzi Green. That same year, Hal Kemp recorded a popular version. It also appeared in the movie of the same title two years later. Dion and the Belmonts also released a successful remake of the song, which reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1960. In 1963, The Lettermen released their version as a single, which peaked at number 98 on the Hot 100. The song was used for the 1992 biopic Sinatra, starring Philip Casnoff; Frank Sinatra performs the song on stage at the Paramount Theatre.

Etta Jones was an American jazz singer whose critical success and relative commercial obscurity earned her a reputation in her lifetime as a "jazz musician's jazz singer". A highly underrated singer who rarely received the recognition she richly deserved, perhaps the salient mark of her obscurity was the number of times even followers of the female jazz vocal scene would confuse her with a more popular singer, Etta James. Etta Jones is noted for her elegant interpretations of standards, ballads, and blues. Her characteristic inflections have sometimes prompted comparisons to stylistic devices employed by Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington.

Etta's accompanied by Frank Wess, (flute, tenor saxophone), Richard Wyands, (piano), Skeeter Best (guitar), George Duvivier (bass) and Roy Haynes (drums). Recorded June 21, 1960. (Prestige Records)

It seems we stood and talked like this before

We looked at each other in the same way then

But I can't remember where or when

The clothes you're wearing are the clothes you wore

The smile you are smiling you were smiling then

But I can't remember where or when

Some things that happened for the first time

Seems to be happenin' again

And so it seems that we have met before

And laughed before and loved before

But who knows where or when

Some things that happened for the first time

Oh, they seem to be happenin' again, oh, yes

And so it seems that we have met before

And laughed before and loved before

But who knows where or when

But who knows where or when