Lil' Darlin'
Harry James Orchestra Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Lil' Darlin'' by these artists:

Count Basie Orchestra Don't need no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…
Ella Fitzgerald Don't need no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…
Joe Pass Don't need no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…
Kurt Elling Don't want no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…
marty paich/mel tormÃ© Don't need no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…
Marty Paich/Mel Tormé Don't need no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…
Mel Torme Don't need no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…
Musikjury Titel Nr. 4 Don't need no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…
The Count Basie Orchestra Don't need no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…

The Four Freshmen Don't need no palace paved with gold Don't need more cash…
The Jazz Passengers Don't need no palace paved with gold. Don't need more cash…
Thomas Ribeiro Lil' darling, won't you give me a reason why you…
ZZ Ward feat. The O'Mys Oh, please, please, please, Quit dragging my heart through t…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Harry James Orchestra:

All Of Me It all comes back to me now, A starry summer…
All or Nothing All, or nothing at all Half a love, never appeal…
Avalon Ev'ry morning mem'ries stray, Across the sea where flying f…
Begin the Beguine When they begin the beguine It brings back the sound of…
By the Sleepy Lagoon A sleepy lagoon, a tropical moon and two on an…
Cherry Cherry, cherry, you're hard to get Cherry, cherry, I'll get…
Ciribiribin When the moon hangs low in Napoli, there's a handsome…
Craziest Dream In a dream the strangest and the oddest things appear And…
Five Well twirl my turban, man alive Here comes Mister Five by…
How High The Moon Somewhere there's music How faint the tune Somewhere there's…
I Can't Begin to Tell You I can't begin to tell you How much you mean to…
I Cover The Waterfront I cover the waterfront, I'm watching the sea, Will the one I…
I Cried For You I remember other days how I used to weep Over…
I Don't Want To Walk Without You All our friends keep knocking at the door They've asked me…
I Had The Craziest Dream In a dream the strangest and the oddest things appear And…
I Want To Be Happy I'm a very ordinary man Trying to work out life's happy…
I'm Beginning To See The Light I never cared much for moonlit skies I never wink back…
I've Heard That Song Before It seems to me I've heard that song before It's from…
It's Been a Long Long Time Never thought that you would be standing here so close…
Lady Be Good Listen to my tale of woe, It's terribly sad but…
Lover You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
Melancholy Mood Melancholy mood forever haunts me Steals upon me in the nigh…
September Song Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December But…
Skylark Skylark Have you anything to say to me Won't you tell me…
Sleepy Lagoon A sleepy lagoon, a tropical moon and two on an…
SLEEPY TIME GAL Wouldn't it be a change for you and me to…
Stardust And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the…
The Nearness Of You Its not the pale moon that excites me That thrills and…
Who's Sorry Now Who's Sorry Now? Who's Sorry Now? Who's heart is aching for …

You Made Me Love You You made me love you I didn't wanna do it…

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Comments from YouTube:

Paul Tatara

9y↑245

That's my dear, late-great friend, Benny Powell, playing the trombone nearest the camera. Benny was one of the finest people I've ever met.

José Espinoza

4y↑12

How fortunate you are!

STschannel T

3y↑2

@Pumilate don't be rude

Pumilate

@STschannel T not trying to be sorry

Wolf Kumaran-Eriksson

@Pumilate He was 80 or so when he passed in 2010 and you're also assuming that Paul Tatara is the same age.

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Rick Jensen

52w↑14

Absolute class - very difficult to make it swing like that and keep it tight at this tempo 👍👏

Alex Fenske

33w↑1

Yes, it's harder than it looks

Niall Mac Giolla Rua

6y↑77

This is the most sensual jazz composition ever in my humble opinion. I discovered it about four weeks ago and I just can't listen to anything else since.

Busta Bass

5y↑5

Ellinton's "Solitude" from the 30s is hard to beat. The sensuality is also second to none....but, to each his own. Incidentally, that last riff Basie plays at the end is the intro to Solitude! That should tell you something 😆

Michael Chapman

3y↑1

I recall hearing this Neal Hefti gold nugget as a young boy in the early days of HiFi/Stereo LP's

eguirald

1y↑1

I agree one hundred percent with your opinion! The same thing happened to me, the first time I heard this classic! I put it on a par with Ellington's Satin Doll.

William Taylor

38w↑1

Neil Hefti is the best, my all time favorite composer check out the soundtrack of How to Murder Your Wife . Horrible title, incredible music

Young Paderewski

9y↑78

Just put me in a time machine and transport me back to that musical moment, back when the band was as smooth as silk.

Andy Turenne

10y↑57

Definitely my all time Basie favorite...and with Neil Hefti it doesn't get better than that.

Tim Davis

8y↑69

I had the privilege of knowing Mr. Hefti, we lost him a few years ago. He was great guy, he told me some great stories from Sinatra to Neil Simon and The Odd Couple.

bonkel35

7y↑2

What did he tell you about sinatra?

Spencer Petunia

6y↑1

Oooh! What'd he have to say about Simon and working on the Odd Couple film and TV show?

Kyle Olejarczyk

6y↑2

[X] Doubt

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bremlquan

4y↑14

The way he strums the guitar around 2:20 is so nice

Jean-Luc Bersou

2y↑2

insightful catching and testimony giving precious informations about F.G.'s
strumming . Right hand flexible wrist brushing energically through the strings on the beat with subtle variations of intensity and left hand moving largely on two
beats positions and changes through tight chords fingerings .

Georgia Little

1y↑2

My husband and I had our first kiss while this song was playing. I loved it before the kiss but I love it even more now!

William Sims

6y↑56

I’m reading a book called Q on Producing by Quincy Jones and he mentioned that he learned the importance of tempo and setting the right groove to music from Count Basie! He said that Neal counted it off at about 220 bpm and Basie changed it to 65bpm and it made such a difference because the tempo change brought out the colors in the tune!!’ As a compose myself, I am definitely taking that advice!!

Linda Perkins

6y↑2

you can not go wrong with any thing Neal Hefti wrote for basie or the movies

camille d.

4y↑3

I'm here because of q on producing too ☺ isn't it wild? He said we'd have awesome computing power by 2019 and look at us now!

ElMarcusch

4y↑2

Same here from how to listen to jazz^^

Michelle Turpin

4y↑1

I'm reading that paragraph right now! I stopped to give the song a listen. Love it, and I love this QJ book, too.

cm TSO

4y↑2

@ElMarcusch im readin this book too but our is by ted gioia, man. lmao Different book

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Anthony Foster

3y↑78

It's so great to see dad... Frank foster. And to hear this song from my childhood.

Pumilate

3y↑2

is that actually your dad?

Postatility

1y↑1

I don't know how many fans,even of the Basie band,no just how huge a contribution your dad made,as a great soloist and especially his amazing additions to the band's library,as composer and arranger.And any musician who recorded with both Monk and Elmo Hope was obviously in a class all his own.

J.F Hernandez

52w

Where is your dad?

Aleks Sason

5y↑16

Thank you very much indeed for uploading this historical jazz footage for us here !!! I've been favouring this standard for many many years!!!

Michael Quillen

2y↑9

Played this one with my jazz ensemble at a jazz festival about 40 years ago (I was a music teacher). This was the second tune of a 3-tune set for adjudication at the festival. After we finished it, all three adjudicators gave us a standing ovation. Yep, we got a I+ (superior) rating. God, that was a great group of student musicians I had, who really enjoyed and appreciated quality big band music and were willing to do the woodshedding to make it happen! BTW, we closed the set with Basie's, Magic Flea.

Ronald Parks

8y↑22

Love this song just a simply beautiful melody

Zane Richter

10y↑9

Favorite phrase in solo at 2:09, favorite chorus at 2:43, and that ending! So delicate. Beautiful music...

RISbandgeek ramirez

7y↑81

We played this song in my middle school jazz band and I instantly fell in love

Claire S

6y↑4

RISbandgeek ramirez same

chubbyzee

6y↑10

@Claire S wowsers me too, we did terrible but the song is beautiful

Square-on-Wheels

4y↑4

Yay! Hope for the future!

murraystewartj

2y↑1

We had a small school jazz band that, thanks to a great band director and a truly supportive community, punched way above our weight when it came to the annual provincial jazz festival. One year we played this arrangement but our director had us do it way slow - painfully slow. It took weeks of practice to get over the inclination to go faster (as we'd all heard the piece in the usual tempo) but we did it. Came in second, and I think the challenge we met was a good part of that. And if you want a great vocal/scat version, check out The Real Group - they do Lil Darlin' proud.

Stephen Condon

Me too

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Rose Lightfoot

5y↑10

I play trumpet, and it is very hard to get a sound as loud as him with a mute on. Kudos!

David Nelms

4y↑73

The Count was so cool, I got to meet him at a nightclub gig in Florida, early 70's.

IT'S ME

Cool

Sybil-Roxanne Clemons

2y↑1

William Count Basie called me Little Cat Eyes (my eyes are hazel) and I got a chance to play with him in my 20 's . He told me I was a Jazz Prodigy.

Pam Tebelman

6y↑3

Beautiful song and beautifully arranged. Thank you for posting.

[ARCHIVE] Beetlejuice Locklear

6y↑12

we’re playin this in jazz band now and i happened to get the solo part- cant wait for the concert!

MrAitraining

8y↑21

Basie in their glorious prime! Just the best.

organgrinder55

41w↑1

I love the baritone sax on this!

Andrew Kelley

1y↑3

I came across this composition in 2017, my sophomore year of high school. I was failing class and got expelled not long after from my school. But only a few months later I met the woman who is now my wife, and things have been on the up and up since. Sometimes good omens really are trustworthy.

Trombonology Erstwhile

10y↑30

A perfect illustration of why Basie's was THE big band of the '50's.

Linda Perkins

6y↑3

in mind, this band still is!!!!!!

Frank P

5y↑3

And the 60s and the 70s and the 80s!

Gary Edmondson

3y↑3

I hear they did OK in the 30s and 40s as well......

Trombonology Erstwhile

3y↑3

@Gary Edmondson Am I correctly sensing sarcasm? My favorite period for the band was when Lester Young and Herschel Evans were the two tenors -- a period that ended in '39, with Herschel's untimely death at 29. ... However, in the '50s, by which time the Big Band Era had ended, the Basie band was still going strong, while the competing orchestras from years before were less prominent or had ceased to exist as a unit.

Gary Edmondson

3y↑1

Maybe just a little sarcasm. Y'all were giving them their due from the 50s to the 80s. I was just completing the picture. They were hell on wheels coming out of Kansas City.About the fifties, yeah, somehow my sister and I came up with a 45 of the band doing "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" about that time. With your handle, you might get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzWigsJwR8 Rita, who also sings, is 16 here; the other young soloist about the same.

Robert Aller

2y↑2

Sweet and sentimental The music just purrs! Thank you for posting!

Y YRM

2y↑2

Count’s final notes evoke In My Solitude, the Duke.Ellington song. So classy!

Charles Barry

37w

One of the greatest jazz orchesttas

MNArt123

5y↑4

The very definition of "laid back". So close without turning the beat over. Classic Basie.

nicklh186

10y↑20

So together and just... beautiful

Covetta Mcsears

37w

Always together nothing could stop them best swing band ever Noone could compare

Paul Saganski

4y↑6

I play this in my high school's alumni jazz band every December, but we never take it this quick. I also get that solo and stretch the bejeezus out of it rhythmically.

MyStringSnapped

9y↑1

I love it! Such a smooth song!

George F Spicka

1y↑1

It's so wonderful to hear this again :)

Picabitwest

10y↑8

That solo ... wow! Took some chances and it really works.

FezToys

6y↑1

This takes me back to my high school days. We had two Jazz competitions and I won best trumpet soloist both times for that solo. It's the solo itself that gave me those medals.

Esther Ingram

5y↑13

when I want peace I listen to this tune.

Cu Dennis

9y↑10

This ridiculously good.

Robert Boney

6y↑1

Great Neil Hefti tune. Great band.

Alan Taylor

3y↑4

Came upon this marvellous piece of music whilst looking up (composer & arranger) Neal Hefti!

William Taylor

38w↑1

Wasn't he just the best arranger/composer you've ever heard?

stormygal121

2y↑1

THIS SENDS me STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN - BRILLIANT ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Tony Johnson

5y↑2

Dam. I love this song..simply brilliant!!!!!!!

Pablo Gayol García

6y↑2

The final quote. Fantastic homage!

Marcelo Linhares

Fantástico!! Nada mais!!

zachsplep

3y↑1

The Brass are playing with "Bucket Mutes" at the beginning. The Trumpet Solo is played with Harmon Mute, stem in. Invented by Mr. Harmon.
For a time it was Johnny Carson's preferred closer of his Tonight Show.
Beautiful sound!

David Wilmot

3y↑3

Love the "In my solitude...I'm praying" tag.

Afi Scruggs

The programmer played this song on the Sunday afternoon jazz show on WVOL, Nashville's Black radio station back in the day. It's so beautiful.

bunta yamochan

9y↑2

I love this song. And, snooky youn's solo makes poetic melody.

William Taylor

38w

Just to set the record straight..
Sonny Cohn played the solo

Harry Banks

26w

Lovely, I came here from the film "Tar" . I'd heard it numerous times in bits and pieces. This is the first time I've listened to it completely.

Robert Boney

2y↑1

Smooth solo...great players.

Jon Gilchrist

I'm from the rock era but was never the same when one day in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, at the band shell there, I watched a big band playing. Very classy!

Jennifer Robison

29w

Beautiful ❤

Serious

We're playing this in our jazz band and its so nice

Mark Stephenson

7y↑6

I was in the French Quarter, 2015 in NOLA. Gerald French Quintet played this for me, and Let me do Vocals. What a Bucket List Dream Come True. I did Lil' Darlin' Right, and Gerald French quintet better, they didn't miss a note, and dragged the back beat in perfect time.

rosamo

c'est exceptionnel !

Alan Blackwood

3y↑2

A faster tempo than usual, but it works!

murp h

5y↑2

Never ever gets old _ the kid from Red Bank __ great stuff

Terry Tk

Sheer musical artistry.

Quick Works

3y↑1

Oh my gosh! Didn’t know the name of this song! Thanks for sharing!

Scott Stevens

Just beautiful.

Blackwatch68

I love Jazz now as a result of hearing this , wonderfully seductive.

TheFaithArtist

5y↑3

Sublime.

John No one

8y↑21

It swings oh so gently.

John M. Hill

2y↑1

My all time favourite. The band is so tight! Mine was good, and we had fun It may well still be going: The Melbourne Municipal Band, Melbourne, Florida. John M. Hill

Steve Flor

Sure goes nice with morning coffee.
Exquisite.

adriaanYT

9y↑2

Prachtig !!

BuckieBear

This is magic

raginbakin

6y↑5

This is lit. I dabbed when that beat dropped.

Lol in all seriousness, this is beautiful.

Gabriel Bienzobas

4y↑1

¡Que bárbaro!

Roger Carroll

10y↑1

great Basie band great Neil Hefti song played on my radio shows often

Michael Bye

52w↑1

24 Carat - composition, arrangement and performance. Beautiful . . . . .delicious even !

MidnightJazzer

7y↑2

Excellent true to form negotiation of Neils tunes!!

DeGrate1896

Neil Hefti (composer) wanted this tune faster; Basie slowed it waaaay down, and the rest is bliss.

Zentertainer

7y↑5

I see alot of hip hop and r&b artist that use this progression and think they thought of it! haha

Costas Stathopoulos

8y↑3

As cool as it gets!

Tony

All elegant and giftted gentlemen.

Marcia Helland

7y↑2

All time Favorite!

Cliff Works

4y↑2

thank you for giving credit to all players

Catherine

11y↑6

Count Basie and Neil Hefti go together like Champagne and Caviar. YUM

Old School_27

6y↑1

so relaxing

bmorecarlos

9y↑9

Sonny Cohn is playing the trumpet solo, not Snooky Young. Snooky Young is seated to the right of Sonny Cohn on the bandstand.

vova47

4y↑2

"In My Solitude"- Basie's quote at the very end. A little Duke tribute, was he there, maybe?

james sykes

9y↑18

I love music from this era, real music not like the stuff you hear today!

orangeduckable

9y↑4

+james sykes I'm 12 and I love this song. songs today are horrible

XIAOXIAO YUAN

8y↑3

+orangeduckable wow your comments just suprised me! good taste(^_^)

orangeduckable

8y↑4

+XIAOXIAO YUAN thanks I grew up with classical music and jazz, lil darlin is my favorite ballet it just sounds so smooth and relaxing

MJ JM

8y↑2

I love it too! when I was a deb they played this when I curtsyed per my mom's request . smooth and sexy nice muted trumpet too

Yuma

ギターの一瞬が好き

slim 5555

10y↑7

The best version

Gayle Mitchell

10y

Gotta love the classic Count Basie

Marc Haring

About the only Basie number where Freddy Green could be heard.

Léon Radoux

6y↑1

Bonjour voilà pourquoi je suis fan d une tablette toute cette musique des années passées et le chic des musiciens MERCI Messieurs

colsome miah

it is much slower and more melancholy....

robert williams

7y↑4

Freddy Green and Marshall Royal!

robert williams

7y↑1

Fabulous band :))).

Dufasaur joe

Part or this is that much of the chord voicings are in fourths rather than thirds. It is a more modern sound. Listen to Blues in thirds by Bechet and Earl Hines. 1940 It is misnamed because it is actually blues in fourths but it was a more modern sound.

Deonte' Bell

11y↑1

Brilliant

Jim Smith

2y↑1

Brilliant; but in my humble opinion, nothing comes close to the version on 'The Atomic Mr. Basie'. I think 65 bpm is the perfect tempo for the colours of the tune and melody to really shine.

Blue Duck

The version with Wendell Curry on trumpet, I think, is much better.

Darren Banton

The Quincy Jones book brought me here . Good for the soul!

Terrell L. Howard

Smooth!

Betty Brite

4y↑1

Boy this Remind ´s me college stage band with Richard Ferland in Drummondville ... Wow what a feeling. Luc Rockology MTL .

James Spicer

9y↑3

Fine and dandy!

webyamoto

Snooky plays his own song.

michael thomas Stirling

28w

Betcha Basie never thought this video would get a 1,000,000 views, 900,000 of them from me.

aircanuck

That was special.

Craig Browning

5y↑3

This version seems a little fast to me.

michael thomas Stirling

28w

Yeah, maybe 100 bpm.

Ерлицк Мистер

👏

MJ JM

8y↑7

when I was a deb they played this when curtsyed per my mom's request .. smooth and sexy!! nice muted trumpet

Neekan Arya

6y↑1

Myra Juarez after you said mothers request you said smooth and sexy some one could really take that out of context

lemonWedge - Brawl Stars

We gonna play this lol wish me luck im the bass

Tony Page

8y↑2

Isn't that Sonny Payne on drums?

Ryan Meyer

Yes, it is.

Boris Lunaire

c'est beau

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Lil' Darlin'Harry James Orchestra Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Lil' Darlin'' by these artists:

We have lyrics for these tracks by Harry James Orchestra:

Paul Tatara

José Espinoza

STschannel T

Pumilate

Wolf Kumaran-Eriksson

Rick Jensen

Alex Fenske

Niall Mac Giolla Rua

Busta Bass

Michael Chapman

eguirald

William Taylor

Young Paderewski

Andy Turenne

Tim Davis

bonkel35

Spencer Petunia

Kyle Olejarczyk

bremlquan

Jean-Luc Bersou

Georgia Little

William Sims

Linda Perkins

camille d.

ElMarcusch

Michelle Turpin

cm TSO

Anthony Foster

Pumilate

Postatility

J.F Hernandez

Aleks Sason

Michael Quillen

Ronald Parks

Zane Richter

RISbandgeek ramirez

Claire S

chubbyzee

Square-on-Wheels

murraystewartj

Stephen Condon

Rose Lightfoot

David Nelms

IT'S ME

Sybil-Roxanne Clemons

Pam Tebelman

[ARCHIVE] Beetlejuice Locklear

MrAitraining

organgrinder55

Andrew Kelley

Trombonology Erstwhile

Linda Perkins

Frank P

Gary Edmondson

Trombonology Erstwhile

Gary Edmondson

Robert Aller

Y YRM

Charles Barry

MNArt123

nicklh186

Covetta Mcsears

Paul Saganski

MyStringSnapped

George F Spicka

Picabitwest

FezToys

Esther Ingram

Cu Dennis

Robert Boney

Alan Taylor

William Taylor

stormygal121

Tony Johnson

Pablo Gayol García

Marcelo Linhares

zachsplep

Lil' Darlin'
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