All the Things You Are
Charles Mingus Charlie Parker Lyrics


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You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song

You are the angel glow that lights a star
The dearest things I know are what you are
Some day my happy arms will hold you
And some day I'll know that moment divine

When all the things you are, are mine

You are the angel glow that lights a star
The dearest things I know are what you are

Some day my happy arms will hold you




And some day I'll know that moment divine
When all the things you are, are mine

Overall Meaning

These lyrics are from the song All The Things You Are, written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, and performed by Charlie Parker. The lyrics illustrate the intense admiration that the singer has for their lover, describing them as the very essence of joy and beauty in their life. The lover is compared to the springtime kiss that brings warmth and light to a long, lonely winter, and the evening hush that anticipates a lovely song. The lover is further described as an angelic presence that lights up the dark, and the dearest thing to the singer's heart.


The song goes on to express the singer's longing for the moment when they can hold their lover, and have all the things that make them who they are. The lyrics are a testament to the power of love and the way it transforms a person's world. The repetition of the phrase "all the things you are" emphasizes the all-consuming nature of the singer's love and desire for their partner.


Overall, the lyrics to All The Things You Are convey a powerful sense of love, longing and admiration. They show how love and admiration can lift us up and transform our lives, making everything more beautiful and meaningful.


Line by Line Meaning

You are the promised kiss of springtime
You bring hope and renewal after a cold, dark time


That makes the lonely winter seem long
Your absence creates an emptiness that seems to last forever


You are the breathless hush of evening
A moment of anticipation and serenity before something beautiful begins


That trembles on the brink of a lovely song
A feeling of excitement before a melody takes flight


You are the angel glow that lights a star
Your radiance illuminates even the darkest corners of the universe


The dearest things I know are what you are
The most precious elements of my existence are embodied in you


Some day my happy arms will hold you
I eagerly await the day when I can embrace you with joy


And some day I'll know that moment divine
A moment of spiritual revelation and enlightenment


When all the things you are, are mine
My life will be complete when I possess everything that you embody




Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein

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mabovithz elthz

You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song
You are the angel glow that lights a star
The dearest things I know are what you are
Some day my happy arms will hold you
And some day I’ll know that moment divine
When all the things you are, are mine

All The Things You Are
作曲:ジェローム・カーン
詩:オスカー・ハマースタイン ⅱ
【和訳(直訳)】
君は春の約束のキス
孤独な冬が長く感じるから
あなたは息をのむような夕べの静けさ
素敵な歌の瀬戸際で震える
君は星を照らす天使の輝き
私が知っている最愛のものは、あなたが何であるかです
いつか幸せな腕が君を抱きしめる
そしていつの日か、その瞬間を知るだろう
あなたのすべてが私のものになるとき



BixLives32

Yes. You are listening . Good for you! I love this side. Charlie Parker With Strings are my favourites. Alas, I also love the early dates with Diz, Slam, Cozy Cole, Billy Bauer, etc. Bird could swing any combo —even a large string section.
This is a nice transfer/remaster, but there are even better ones out there. Plus, with Sound Forge, Cedar, etc, and the right bass synthesizing filters you can lift existing subtle sub bass hits that Slam and Cozy are laying down. This technique does not add artificial content but simply enhances specific portions of the signal that your ear would not normally hear from the 78 RPM shellac disc. However, this same sub bass (without rumble), would certainly have been heard by the live mastering engineers. This era's lacquers are definitely high-fidelity. With modern gear we can now make metal parts sound almost as good as a lacquer. Even a good acetate can sound far better. Somewhere, there is a metal part of this side out there... Keep your eyes open!
This recording has been taken from a 78 RPM shellac pressing part. No metal or lacquer parts are known to exist for this side, but I think this improbable. Yes, no lacquers remain, as the insurance companies would not insure them (fire hazard); but surely there are metal parts, —stampers or mothers. When one is found, we will hear this in true High Fidelity. Also, as good as this transfer sounds, it can be done better. The commercial companies that own the original sound recording parts, will not expend the necessary time & money to remaster these precious parts as they deserve. The villain? In this case, Probably BMG. There are now only three major record companies out there! BMG (RCA Victor Holdings), WEA (Warner) and Sony (includes CBS, Columbia and a lot more).
Sad eh? BUT, today, almost ALL new music is coming from small independent labels that do not even need distribution from BMG, Sony or WEA.
There is NO record industry as I knew it when I was playing. It all ended by about 1995. The majors did NOT create a single standard physical package for all digital forms. This was awful as creating the package would have been easy. They could have simply used the standard 10" cardboard sleeve and put a slot in it for a USB stick, SD chip, etc. The retail shops still had all the original display cases, thus, no changes were needed at the brick and mortar shops. Plus, people could sill download the music and receive the packaging in the post. Music often sold because of clever and artistic album covers. I cannot remember how many new artists I discovered and liked simply because of a good album cover. E.g., —Janis Joplin's album cover drawn by the great Robert Crumb allowed me to discover Ms. Joplin. After that, I would buy ANY record that had a cover drawn by R. Crumb. And I still follow this personal rule! I am proud to say that I have NEVER purchased a bad record with a cover drawn by Mr. Robert Crumb. —In addition, record shops were better than the local pub for chatting up girls! Te local record shop that I lived near was THE social gather place for young people. This was called REAL social networking. Far more fun than VIRTUAL anything! I feel sad for the poor kids today whom have only VIRTUAL FRIENDS. These poor kids are growing up, but only VIRTUALLY. They are becoming VIRTUAL people , instead of VIRTUOUS people.
People liked album art and liner notes. It was all part of a salable package that has now been forgotten. No longer can artists record full albums that will be listened to like "Charlie Parker With Strings", "Abbey Road", or "The Other Side of Abbey Road". American has ignored its musical legacy and now the French and English know American Jazz better than most Americans.
I may be the last generation to have been able to make records, be professionally developed and be distributed by a record company. Of course, they screwed you, but if you could write enough new material that sold, you could make a living. Today my young nephews get 50 bucks for playing Jazz date and they are both top pros. This is criminal. As a pop performer, 45 years ago, I made many times this amount for a similar date. Later, when I played more Jazz and Blues dates, I was paid far less for music that was more difficult to play! (circa 1990s)
An English pop combo from Swindon called XTC has a catalogue created through over 40 years of top charting records. They were on Virgin Records for their entire career because of of the perfidious legal control that the record company's exercised. In the 1990s, XTC had to go on a labour strike (for EIGHT YEARS!) against Virgin to be paid an amount that was really just a middle-class income. (You cannot FORCE a person to be creative!). However, in those eight years, the two writers (Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding), worked in secret at their home studios. At the end of the strike, they had 4 or 5 albums worth of material ; —all top grade music. How they survived for eight years without pay; —well, Swindon is pretty cheap as the former industrial town is "Boarded Up". You may not know pop music well from circa 1978 - 2000, but these cats have a publishing catalogue that contains over 200 songs, —much of which were charted on Billboard's top 100. For pure quality and quantity they are rivaled only by the Beatles!
And, um, Dick James Music Publishing, LTD. obtained 90% of ALL Beatles publishing royalties from middle 1964 to 1974. Yes. this was insane. How? —'Tis a mystery, but most people are pretty sure that Dick James Music, LTD, literally BLACK-MAILED poor Brian Epstein, The Beatles' GAY manager. You see, at that time, the British laws regarding "sodomy" and particularly "obscenity" had not yet been repealed. Gay men were commonly given 6 month sentences in The Old Bailey for publicity kissing or holding hands. All it took was a single person to be outraged and file a complaint with the nearest P.C. —And "hard labour" was still a fact. They made the inmates tread a conveyor belt that could be controlled to be more or less difficult. Insane, but it was there. The same so-called sodomy law that ruined and killed Oscar Wilde, was not repealed until 1968! —A year after Mr. Epstein's death.
Sorry for the verbosity, but no one seems to care. —E.g., Chan Parker (Bird's wife) struggled to survive, financially, her entire life. This should be considered criminal. Shame on the former music industry.
At least the industry deserved what it got. BMG, WEA and Sony make 98% of their money on OLD content. And the "bling" and bravado of the young "rap" artists is all B.S. Those kids are being ripped-off just like the rest of us from previous generations.
A great example of the recording industry's perfidy was told and legally fought successfully by FRANK ZAPPA. This involved a perfidy called "pressing over-runs". Quite illegal, but who was looking? All the pressing plant personnel had to do continue using a pressing stamper a few thousand units more than was intended. These extra units were, of course, poor quality pressings, but they were still shipped and sold. Sold, but never recorded on the company's legal accounting ledgers. Who lost and how much? EVERYONE. E.g., any band; —say The Byrds or Randy Newman were cheated out of millions of dollars of publishing and unit payments. Zappa thought everyone was so high that they simply did not notice. But, Frank Zappa, was able to overturn former court rulings and recover millions of pounds and dollars for the artists. There are more than a few artists from the 1960s and 1970s who owe their retirements to Frank Zappa. Many of them do not even know why it was that they were finally paid their full earnings!

A new music industry has formed. A pitiful shadow of its former self. However, the greed-heads win again.



Kattra Kee

My grandfather my father‘s father was a wonderful jazz musician and played tenor sax. So many times in my youth,
I was at my grandparents house and he would be playing in the music room, and I listened so enchanted by the beautiful tones,
And improvisational riffs;,
and I never recognized as such in those days being a child,
a young person,
I didn’t have the music knowledge or awareness or appreciation of jazz until I grew to an adult and realized how much I loved it.
My entire family were musicians my grandfather and my uncle played jazz tenor sax my grandfather also played country fiddle as well as my father, my mother sang , she in my father had a musical radio show at one time as a duet and a very popular in our area.
I have two sisters and my mother who taught us to sing in three part harmony when we were seven or eight years old and my brother also plays guitar and sings, self-taught, no doubt an influence from my father playing in our home and regarding my mother; now
I just appreciate it so much even though she and I were estranged in later years,
, that musical gift she gave to me by merely encouraging us to sing,
something you would think would not be have to be nurtured but would just naturally be there ;but without her encouragement?
would we ever have sang Together?
Would we ever had had the joy of a house full of music of all our relatives all our growing up years, we always have music in our house. ?
My father was in the Many groups and bands and played music on the weekends when he wasn’t working his regular job,
my grandfather and uncle played since I was born ;
in orchestras and bands and the variations and different genres ; my grandfathers mother and my great uncle also played keyboard and piano and my great grandmother play more of a Scott Joplin style piano, I remember it vividly as a child I remember that’s going to dances and all of our family playing together in these big halls and and venues;
just the saturation and constant presence of music in my young life made me love music all my life ;all my days and now,
even more.
Until recently I only thought there was only one kind of jazz and it was called Jazz ...
Jazz Jazz, I never knew there were different kinds of jazz until I discovered Smooth Jazz as opposed to conventional jazz, and still in my golden years now, I’m still discovering so many musical wonders, ;
Musicians and musical styles that I heard and they influence to me yet I wasn’t aware of it,
and some of them are things that I heard Long ago,
in those young years of mine,
but it’s only now that I recognize and appreciate and understand the intricacies
and the beauty of it all ............. I love all kinds of music,
I can appreciate all kinds of Music though there are some of course that I can’t accept; because to me
they don’t sound like music
nor do they emulate any kind of feeling but that they’re just mechanical music thrown together by people who don’t really understand music they only understand technology;
but as I wax nostalgic,
I’m just overtaken by the wonder of it all.
I can’t imagine a world without music
I don’t understand people like my neighbors who rarely even sing or turn on the radio or play records
or play music in their apartment, I have a radio in every room and there’s not a minute of any day that I don’t hear some form of music; and I don’t think that I could live without it. I sing and I play a little piano,
I wish I had an instrument to play right now I don’t even have a guitar which I am not at all proficient at, but still and all I can sing and I do even to myself, to my cat, standing on my porch singing with my music on my phone ; I wish I had a working record player I wish I didn’t live here so that I could collect all the records that I listen to during my childhood if I could find them all and more, so many things, musically;
In these waning years of my life. Still,
I hear a song or a phrase, or I have a memory of a tune I’ve heard some time in the past and I may sing out at any time;
The spontaneity of the moment of the feeling just hits me;
Music has been such a big big part of my entire existence..... I never really realized the enormity of it all,until lately and now I just feel, if not for ALL the music, my life would’ve been so different; .....absolutely. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🎶🎵🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️



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JamieJourney

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." ~ Charlie Parker

Santiago Ortega

Gemini chocolade

Ole Birger Pedersen

The great danish painter Ager Jorn once said :" If you don't go to the ecsgreme

Ole Birger Pedersen

Asger Jorn said :" If you don't go to the extreme there's no reason to go anywhere.

aqualili

thats funny coming from bird cuz he was simultaneously the worst person who ever lived and the most beautiful soul

LegendofBamBam

This song literally brought me, a grown man, to tears. Like for real, this is the most beautiful love song I’ve ever heard and there is not a single lyric.

주니어Golden Dragon의 어린이 영어책 리뷰

same

RapidRoha

thats The Bird 4 ya

Jose Diaz

It would be a real tour de force put lyrics on it

Jonathan Flores

@Jose Diaz It does have lyrics originally. I recommend Ella Fitsgerald's version

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