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Photo by Mark Minton in Bloomington, Indiana, special for the BAP blog.
And here's Ella with "Skylark," one of the great collaborations between Hoagy and Johnny Mercer.
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Beautiful. Related, Lauren Bacall singing Hoagy Carmichael"s "How Little We Know" in Key Largo.
Posted by: Grace Schulman | December 12, 2020 at 11:03 AM
Thank you, Grace. I, too, love Lauren Bacall singing "How Little We Know," with Hoagy at the piano, in "To Have and Have Not."
Posted by: David Lehman | December 12, 2020 at 12:14 PM
The lyrics are about Mercer's pining for Judy Garland, with whom he had an affair that had ended.
Posted by: Dan | December 12, 2020 at 07:12 PM