Sarah Vaughan - Just Friends (Columbia Records 1949) video free download

"Just Friends" is a popular song that has become a jazz standard. The song was written in 1931 by John Klenner with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis. Although introduced by Red McKenzie and His Orchestra in October 1931, it first became a hit when singer Russ Columbo performed it with Leonard Joy's Orchestra in 1932. It charted again the same year in a version by Ben Selvin and His Orchestra and has been recorded often since.

Sarah's accompanied by Joe Lippman (conductor/arranger), Jimmy Jones (piano), Jack Lesberg (bass), Bunny Shawker (drums), and Al Caiola (guitar). Recorded July 7, 1949, New York. (Columbia Records)

Just friends, lovers no more

Just friends, but not like before

To think of what we've been and not to kiss again

Seems like pretending it isn't the ending

Two friends drifting apart

Two friends, but one broken heart

We loved, we laughed, we cried, and suddenly love died

The story ends and we're just friends

Two friends drifting apart

Two friends, but one broken heart

We loved, we laughed, we cried, and suddenly love died

The story ends and we're just friends