Etta Jones - Don't Go To Strangers (Prestige Records 1960) video free download

"Don't Go To Strangers" is a song David with lyrics by Redd Evans & Arthur Kent. 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)

Build your dreams to the stars above

But when you need someone true to love

Don't go to strangers, darling, come home to me

Play with fire till your fingers burn

And when there's no place for you to turn

Don't go to strangers, darling, come home to me

For, when you hear a call to follow your heart

You'll follow your heart I know

I've been through it all and I'm an old hand

And I'll understand if you go

So make your mark for your friends to see

But when you need more than company

Don't go to strangers, come Home to me

Oh, make your mark for your friends to see

But when you need more than company

Don't go to strangers, darling, come home to me