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WHEN SUNNY GETS BLUE

Artist: Nat King Cole Composer: Marvin Fisher and Jack SegalCopyright: 1946GoChords.com

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When Sun ny gets blue her eyes get grey and cloud..........y

Sun ny gets blue she breathes a sigh of sad..............ness

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then the rain be- gins to fall pitter, patter, pitter, patter

like the wind that stirs the trees........... wind that sets the leaves a swaying

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love is gone so what can matter; no sweet lover man comes to call....................When

like a vi ol in is playing strange'n haunting mel o________

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(melo) dies........................................

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People used to love to hear her laugh, see her smile, that's how she got her name..........

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since that sad af-fair she lost her smile, changed her style,

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some how she's not the same............................................ but,................................

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memories will fade, and pretty dreams will rise up, where her other dreams fell through

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hurry new love! hurry here to kiss a-way each lonely fear and

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hold her near when Sun__ny gets 'Blue'

When Sunny gets blue was the last recorded song by Judy Garland before her death on June 22 1969. It was recorded at the Half Note Club in New York city. She was accompanied by her husband Mickey Deans. Anita O'day was present. O'day would put down the definitive female Jazz singer's version later on.

Ths song was pliagarised when the alternative title 'When Sunny Sniffs Glue' was used. The incensed composers took the defamators to court but the case was lost because of the very abbreviated length of time the original music and lyric was used in the spoof - just 29 secs.

Most of the great Jazz singers from Mel Torme to Nat Cole and from Garland to Vaughan have recorded this song. Its chords progress in a wonderful Jazz pattern ending in a very satisfying m7->9->6/9. An extended Jazz piano supporting Anita O'Day has become the 'gold' standard of this song. If you go into the Nat Cole reading on You Tube (see below) you should be able to find the O'Day interpretation of this lovely song.

I chose the Nat Cole version as my guide because of his simple reading of the melody line without embellishment. As he sings the complicated melody a sensitive harmony and counterpoint background allows the music speak for itself. The Lyric holds the attention.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3JRsFPMf5Y

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