T. Monk

[RON JOSEPHS]

Does anyone know if lyrics were written for Thelonious Monk's music? If
lyrics were written, who and where are they available from.

Thanx for your cooperation...

Ron Josephs
ron.j...@execnet.com

[Aurora]

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>In <8BA4520.05D4...@execnet.com> ron.j...@execnet.com (RON

>CORRECTION:
>
>Of course there have been lyrics to "Round Midnight" for quite awhile
>and years ago, Gene McDaniels recorded "Straight, No Chaser" with
>really cool lyrics. Others have recorded that as well. Years ago, Jon
>Hendrick recorded "In Walked Bud" on an Art Blakey and the Jazz
>Messengers LP. Abbey Lincoln has recorded "Blue Monk" at least twice.
>Carmen McRae did a whole CD of Monk tunes with lyrics, "Carmen Sings
>Monk" which includes "Get It Straight" ("Straight, No Chaser" and
>different from the McDaniels-recorded lyric); "Dear Ruby" (Ruby, My
>Dear); "It's Over Now" ("Well You Needn't"); "Monkery's the Blues"
>("Blue Monk"); "You Know Who" ("I Mean You"); "Little Butterfly"
>("Pannonica"); "Listen To Monk" ("Rhythm-a-ning"); "How I Wish" ("Ask
>Me Now"); "Man, That Was A Dream" ("Monk's Dream"); "Round Midnight";
>"Still We Dream" ("Ugly Beauty"); "Suddenly" ("In Walked Bud"); and
>"Looking Back" ("Reflections"). Looking at the LINER information, it
>seems a Sally Swisher, a Mike Ferro, Jon Hendrick abd Abbey Lincoln
>contributed the lion's share of the lyrics.
>
>Finally (but I'm sure not really FINALLY), a Chicago based singer
named
>Luba Rashiek recorded the definative version of "Well, You Needn't", a
>different lyric than Carmen/Mike Ferro's and I think a much hipper
one.
>
>Now having said all that, I haven't got the written lyrics to any of
>that, although I do have every recording mentioned here. I'm sure
>there are many, many more and I wish you luck in fiding the lyrics.
>
>Nealee

[SwingDoug]

RON JOSEPHS wrote:
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> Does anyone know if lyrics were written for Thelonious Monk's music? If
> lyrics were written, who and where are they available from.
>
> Thanx for your cooperation...
>
> Ron Josephs
> ron.j...@execnet.com

John Hendricks wrote some....Check out Monk's "Underground" for his
vocal on "In Walked Bud"....swingin....

Carmen McRae did a mind-numbingly awesome record, "Carmen Sings Monk",
which featured Charlie Rouse.....killin album on RCA/Novus I believe....
great lyrics...."Pannonica my butterfly....."
--
Doug Wamble
Swin...@aol.com
c-sch...@nwu.edu
Check out my homepage-
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~cds653

[Charles D. Gerard]

Jon Hendricks recorded "In Walked Bud" with Monk using Hendricks"s lyrics.

Gerard & Sarzin Publishing Co., publishers of jazz books.
Web site: http://www.jazznet.com/~lmcohen

[Aurora]

In <8BA4520.05D4...@execnet.com> ron.j...@execnet.com (RON
JOSEPHS) writes:
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>Does anyone know if lyrics were written for Thelonious Monk's music?
If lyrics were written, who and where are they available from.
>
>Thanx for your cooperation...
>
>
>Ron Josephs
>ron.j...@execnet.com

Of course there have been lyrics to "Round Midnight" for quite awhile
and years ago, Gene McDaniels recorded "Straight, No Chaser" with
really cool lyrics. Others have recorded that as well. Years ago, Jon
Hendrick recorded "In Walked Bud" on an Art Blakey and the Jazz
Messengers LP. Abbey Lincoln has recorded "Blue Monk" at least twice.
Carmen McRae did a whole CD of Monk tunes with lyrics, "Carmen Sings
Monk" which includes "Get It Straight" ("Straight, No Chaser" and
different from the McDaniels-recorded lyric); "Dear Ruby" (Ruby, My
Dear); "It's Over Now" ("Well You Needn't"); "Monkery's the Blues"
("Blue Monk"); "You Know Who" ("I Mean You"); "Little Butterfly"
("Pannonica"); "Listen To Monk" ("Rhythm-a-ning"); "How I Wish" ("Ask
Me Now"); "Man, That Was A Dream" ("Monk's Dream"); "Round Midnight";
"Still We Dream" ("Ugly Beauty"); "Suddenly" ("In Walked Bud"); and

"Looking Back" ("Reflections"). Looking at the liar information, it

[Paul Fields]

ron.j...@execnet.com (RON JOSEPHS) wrote:
>Does anyone know if lyrics were written for Thelonious Monk's music? If
>lyrics were written, who and where are they available from.

Check out "Carmen Sings Monk" by Carmen McRae on Novus. I think that
most of the lyrics were by Jon Hendricks but I can't remember for sure.

Mark Fields
pfie...@ix.netcom.com

[Michael Delceg]

A good place to start is Carmen McRae's Carmen Sings Monk.(Novus
3086-2-N). This is a lovely album whether or not you want the lyrics.
Mike

[Dusty Cox]

Would anyone know of a complete collection of monk tunes, if so,
where available?

Thanks,

Darius Brubeck

[cor...@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu]

This is a little off-topic, but I wonder if anyone knows why it is that the
tunes on "Carmen Sings Monk" are all retitled, "Well You Needn't" becoming
"It's Over Now," etc.

The liner notes mutter something unintelligible about publishing problems, but
I've always wondered whether it had to do with getting royalties to the
lyric-writers.

Harvey
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Harvey Cormier
Philosophy Dept.
University of Texas