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Once in a while a musician comes along with impeccable technique, deep understanding of the jazz repertoire, an innate tendency to swing and the rare ability to communicate the heart and soul of a tune to listeners. That musician is Beegie Adair.
About her music Adair says, “Falling in love with jazz is like falling in love with a person, except with jazz you never get over it.” About Beegie (say B-G) Adair, what do others say?
Jazz great Helen Merrill salutes her “inventive jazz sense, her wonderful sense of time and improvised melody.”
Christopher Louden of Jazz Times magazine says Adair is “an accomplished artist with a delicate touch.”
The Los Angeles Times calls her music “Elegant.”
Entertainment News writes, “Beegie Adair is one of the finest piano players in the world.”
Intrigued? So are thousands of jazz fans, who agree with critics about Adair’s sophisticated and listenable jazz performances, and who have made her recordings among the biggest sellers in the jazz world.
Citing George Shearing, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner among her influences, Adair has recorded 24 CDs, ranging from Cole Porter standards to Frank Sinatra classics to romantic World War II ballads. Her 6-CD Centennial Composers Collection of tunes by Rodgers, Gershwin, Kern, Ellington, Carmichael and Berlin became an instant collectible classic when it was released in 2002.
Kentucky born and raised, Adair lives and records in Nashville – something of a surprise to people who associate the city solely with country music. In fact Nashville lives up to its “Music City” nickname by hosting a vibrant jazz scene, in which she has been a leading light for decades. A sought-after studio musician in her early days there, Adair accompanied such legendary performers as Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash – and also worked with Lucille Ball, Dinah Shore, Mama Cass Elliott and Peggy Lee.
Her guests on Improvised Thoughts, Beegie’s radio talk/music show on the local NPR affiliate, included such greats as Tony Bennett, Joe Williams, Marian McPartland, Benny Golson and Helen Merrill. She has guested on McPartland’s Piano Jazz show and has performed with Nat Adderley, Bill Watrous, Lew Tabackin, Terry Clarke, Urbie Green and Jim Ferguson, among many others.
When she’s not in the studio or appearing in clubs and concert halls around the country, Adair wears a variety of hats, from adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University to teacher and mentor at the Nashville Jazz Workshop. Recently she co-wrote and scored an innovative theatrical production, Betsy, which in April 2006 premiered off-Broadway in New York.
She has recorded eight projects for Village Square Records in Nashville; her most recent CDs are Sentimental Journey, a popular collection of World War II-era songs, and a solo piano recording, Quiet Romance.
She performs solo and with the Beegie Adair Trio, whose members include drummer Chris Brown, a veteran of the Maynard Ferguson ensemble, and bassist Roger Spencer, who has played with the Les Brown Band, Ray Conniff, the Page Cavanaugh Trio and Pete Jolly. They are, she says, “my main guys. They’re so tuned into the way I visualize music that it’s effortless to play with them.”
In clubs and concert venues from Los Angeles to New York, Beegie and her “main guys” win kudos from audiences and critics alike who appreciate her unique take on classic jazz. She fell in love with the music a long time ago, and indeed she’s never gotten over it -- a love affair the jazz world is much the better for.
Secret Love
Beegie Adair Lyrics
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That lived within the heart of me
All too soon my secret love,
Became impatient to be free
So I told a friendly star,
The way that dreamers often do
Just how wonderful you are,
Now, I shout it from the highest hills
Even told the golden daffodils
At last my hearts an open door,
And my secret love's
No secret anymore.
"Secret Love" by Beegie Adair features lyrics that revolve around a person who has been keeping their love concealed inside their heart. The writer talks about a secret love that they had kept hidden inside for a long time, but finally, it became too much for them to bear, and they needed to reveal it. The song portrays the singer's journey through the emotional struggle of hiding their love, ultimately to finally speak up and tell their secret to the world.
In the opening of the song, the singer sets the scene and talks about the love they had kept concealed in their heart. But all of it changed, and the love became too intense to hold back any longer. It reflects how sometimes we try to hide our true feelings, but in the end, they become uncontrollable, and we have to let go. In the second verse, the singer tells all about how they revealed their love to the world, shouting it out from the highest hills to the golden daffodils. This shows that the person has let go of all their fears and doubts and announced their love without any inhibitions. The song ends with the expression that the person's secret is no longer a secret, paving the way for a hopeful future in love.
Line by Line Meaning
Once I had a secret love,
I used to have feelings for someone that I kept to myself
That lived within the heart of me
Those feelings were very important to me and were hidden deep inside
All too soon my secret love,
Unfortunately, I couldn't keep my feelings hidden for too long
Became impatient to be free
My hidden feelings became too strong for me to contain and I felt the need to express them
So I told a friendly star,
I confided in something that symbolizes hope and guidance as an act of comfort
The way that dreamers often do
It's common for one to contemplate and imagine a perfect scenario when expressing their love to someone
Just how wonderful you are,
I conveyed my admiration and affection for the person I was in love with
And why I'm so in love with you
I explained the reasons behind my feelings and what led me to be deeply in love
Now, I shout it from the highest hills
I no longer feel the need to hide my emotions and am now openly expressive
Even told the golden daffodils
I'm so happy and carefree about my love that I'm sharing it with everything and everywhere around me
At last my hearts an open door,
My heart is now accessible for others to see and understand easily
And my secret love's
The love that was hidden and kept from others
No secret anymore.
I've let go of any reservations and the love I have inside is now made public and can be seen easily.
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER, SAMMY FAIN
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