Flipping Through My Collection

Was just talking to WK the other day about jazz music and suddenly recalled that I had a Jacintha album somewhere.

Managed to find it after a search. Nice, sultry voice. Almost quite forgotten how the tracks sound like.

One of the reasons why I bought the album years ago was because of the song Pennies From Heaven by Bing Crosby. A search on its lyrics yielded an interesting nugget of information on the song:


PENNIES FROM HEAVEN(Burke, Johnston)
Bing introduced "Pennies from Heaven" in his movie of the same name. The movie was okay, the song won an Oscar. Bing recorded "Pennies from Heaven" August 17, 1936 with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. By the end of the year the recording had rocketed to the top of the charts, where it stayed for an incredible 10 weeks. It was Bing's only No. 1 recording of 1936, but for Bing it was megabucks from Heaven!


A long time ago
A million years BC
The best things in life
Were absolutely free.
But no one appreciated
A sky that was always blue.
And no one congratulated
A moon that was always new.
So it was planned that they would vanish now and them
And you must pay before you get them back again.
That's what storms were made for
And you shouldn't be afraid for

Every time it rains it rains
Pennies from heaven.
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven.
You'll find your fortune falling
All over town.
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down.
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers.
If you want the things you love
You must have showers.
So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree.
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me.

http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/~crosby/lyrics.html

Jacintha's version was a whole lot shorter, but it was full of swing and class. In fact, the first time I heard it was when Adrian sang it (he the rabid Frank Sinatra fan) at a colleague's birthday party.

This song certainly brought back a lot of warm memories... :)