lyrics of "GOODBYE" by Gordon Jenkins ?
Aquimees
Does anybody know if lyrics exist to Gordon Jenkins' "Goodbye" ?
Is anybody aware of any recorded vocal version of this song ?
If so, please let me know !
Thanks,
Quirijn
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I'll never forget you.
I'll never forget you.
I'll never forget how we promised one day
To love one another forever that way.
You said we'd never say "Goodbye."
But that was long ago.
Now you've forgotten, I know.
No use to wonder why,
Let's say "Farewell" with a sigh,
Let love die.
But we'll go on living,
Our own way of living.
So you take the high road
and I'll take the low.
It's time that we parted.
It's much better so.
So kiss me as you go.
Goodbye.
Taken from "Chris Connor Sings Lullabys [sic] of Birdland" (Bethlehem
CD). It's also on the first album that Linda Ronstadt did with Nelson
Riddle ("What's New?" on Asylum). Words and music by Gordon Jenkins.
- JRB
J. Stevens
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>
> I'll never forget you.
> I'll never forget you.
> I'll never forget how we promised one day
> To love one another forever that way.
> You said we'd never say "Goodbye."
Thanks for this post! I too have been searching for these lyrics
awhile!
There is a STUNNING version of this hauntingly beautiful song on
Cannonball Adderly's "Know What I Mean" album also.
Jan Stevens
Andy Jack
In article <19970924121...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, aqui...@aol.com (Aquimees) writes:
>Does anybody know if lyrics exist to Gordon Jenkins' "Goodbye" ?
>Is anybody aware of any recorded vocal version of this song ?
How times change! The definitive version is on Frank Sinatra's "Only the
Lonely", an LP that was in its time as influential and as omnipresent as
Sergeant Pepper and Astral Weeks in theirs. Or maybe it was just very
popular among the people I knew in North Yorkshire at the tag end of the
50s.
Andy
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Mark S Fraser
Aquimees (aqui...@aol.com) writes:
> Does anybody know if lyrics exist to Gordon Jenkins' "Goodbye" ?
> Is anybody aware of any recorded vocal version of this song ?
> If so, please let me know !
> Thanks,
> Quirijn
My favourite version is Art Pepper's from Thursday night at the Village
Vanguard. He dedicates it to Hampton Hawes who apparently had recently
passed away.
--
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-Groucho Marx
Loudon Briggs
Frank Sinatra on Only The Lonely... this song expresses the intended
mood so well that you KNOW it's all over, even when done without
lyrics. For me, it was half of the perfect set of theme songs... back
in the mid 30s when Goodman came on with "Let's Dance," everybody was
ready to moooove, but when he began to play "Goodbye" it was such a
letdown and you could hardly wait for the next broadcast.
--
Loudon Briggs (lar...@indirect.com Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
tomb...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
In article <342951...@ix.netcom.com> gal...@ix.netcom.com writes:
>
>Taken from "Chris Connor Sings Lullabys [sic] of Birdland" (Bethlehem
>CD). It's also on the first album that Linda Ronstadt did with Nelson
>Riddle ("What's New?" on Asylum). Words and music by Gordon Jenkins.
AARRGHH! How can you promote the Ronstadt version without even
mentioning the definitive recording on the Sinatra/Riddle
masterpiece LP "Only the Lonely"?
Leo Scanlon
"J. Stevens" <jrs...@idt.net> wrote:
>Thanks for this post! I too have been searching for these lyrics
>awhile!
>There is a STUNNING version of this hauntingly beautiful song on
>Cannonball Adderly's "Know What I Mean" album also.
The definitive version is on Frank Sinatra's "Only the Lonely" album
(Capitol).
Leo
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Chill, Tom. I wasn't promoting, only noting its existence.
- JRB
tomb...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
In article <342c169b...@news.goodnet.com> lar...@indirect.com (Loudon Briggs) writes:
>
>Frank Sinatra on Only The Lonely... this song expresses the intended
>mood so well that you KNOW it's all over
Looks like it's just about over for Frank. Today's (friday) Wall Street
Journal has a piece about how his kids are already wrangling over the
estate. Seems that when the last live album came out, the kids were
upset because Frank had already left them the rights to those tunes,
but his wife owned the rights to the new album. His own kids considered
suing him for trespassing on the rights that he had given them, but decided
to let him slide. They felt that their deliberation had sent Frank a warning
not to do it again.
The article describes Tina Sinatra, his youngest daughter, as a
"female Frank". She threatened the reporter: "I'll come after you
with a knife."