So Nice
MAY Billy Lyrics

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You'd be so nice to come home to
You'd be so nice by the fire
While the breeze on high sang a lullaby
You'd be all that I could desire

Under stars chilled by the winter
Under an August moon burning above
You'd be so nice, you'd be paradise

To come home to and love

You'd be so nice to come home to

You'd be awful nice by the fire
While the breeze up on high sang a lullaby
You'd be all that I could desire

Under stars chilled by the winter
Under an August moon burnin' up there above

You'd be so nice, just like paradise
To come home to and love

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Billy May's song "So Nice" evoke feelings of warmth, comfort, and desire for a special someone. The singer of the song seems to be yearning for this person to come home and be with them, describing a cozy scene of sitting by the fire while the breeze outside sings a lullaby. The song's chorus repeats the sentiment that the person would be "so nice" to come home to, and that they would be all the singer could desire. The verse about being under the stars either in the winter or under an August moon reinforces the idea that this person would be "just like paradise" to be with.

The song's jazz-infused style, with its smooth vocals and instrumental backing, adds to the overall romantic atmosphere. The lyrics also paint a picture of a simpler time, before the distractions of technology and social media, where the focus was on spending time with the people we love in comfortable surroundings.

Overall, "So Nice" is a song about the desire for companionship and the warmth that comes from being with someone we care about. The song's lyrics paint a picture of a cozy and intimate scene that many listeners can relate to and long for.

Line by Line Meaning

You'd be so nice to come home to
Returning home to you would be an absolute pleasure

You'd be so nice by the fire
Being next to you by the fire would be exceptionally delightful

While the breeze on high sang a lullaby
As we listen to the soothing nighttime wind together

You'd be all that I could desire
I would want for nothing if I were with you

Under stars chilled by the winter
Beneath the winter night's crystal clear stars

Under an August moon burning above
As we admire the beauty of the bright August moon above us

You'd be so nice, you'd be paradise
Being with you would be like being in heaven

To come home to and love
I would be delighted to both come home to you and love you

You'd be awful nice by the fire
Being near the warmth of the fire with you would be so lovely

While the breeze up on high sang a lullaby
The soft, night breeze would peacefully serenade us

You'd be so nice, just like paradise
Being in your presence would be a heavenly experience

To come home to and love
I would be eager and fulfilled to both return to you and love you

Lyrics © DistroKid, Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Sentric Music, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Cole Porter

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Winslow Yerxa

So nice is the English title, to go with Norman Gimel's English language lyrics:
Someone to hold me tight
That would be very nice
Someone to love me right
That would be very nice
Someone to understand
Each little dream in me
Someone to take my hand
And be a team with me

All comments from YouTube:

rafael escobar

6y↑5

entiendo que muchos no son afines a este estilo pero a mi me gusta, mas tambien es del tiempo de mis viejos, fantastica musica que me remonta alli por los 60 o 70.. muy bueno..

amtrakatsfnyc

11y↑5

Hello Anderson, Thank you for the reply and the additional information about the recording and the composers. Walter's playing always impressed me as it was so fluid with continuous rhythm that seemed to so fit into the melody i8n a very natural way.

Gilberto Nedel júnior

5y↑5

Samba de verão, Brazilian geniality

Yaír André Cuenú Mosquera

13y↑1

¡Maravilla!

David Caravegio

8y↑15

Time-Life records did a series in the 60's-70's called As You Remember Them. They were re-creations of instrumental hits - Billy May did a number of these for them - they were note for note recreations of the originals - that's why this recording is so close to Wanderley's version...

Cesar Monterroso

9y↑7

THIS AMERICAN MUSIC WAS THE BEST ONE EVER PLAYED.

Aline Hernandez

11y↑3

Thanks LittleMissLounge, for up loading this melody. I was driving my husband (five years) crazy for to find the name of the song

Anderson Khel

11y↑2

You are right. I have all records of Walter Wanderley, Billy May has just some samples of Organ Music, I agree tha Billy May has a good work in music, a kind of orchestration very beautiful, but this arrangement belong to Walter. I don't know how anyone can't listen the true, the composers are from Brazil, Marcos Valle, the lyrics are in portuguese language, Walter recorded in Brazil years before going to USA, THE RHYTHM IS PURE BRAZIL.

jorge arturo jaimes

13y↑2

Little Miss Lounge the best compilation of Lounge Music. Congratulations!

Cortez

5y↑3

So that's the song that's been playing in my elevator all this time.

John Perks

7y↑24

Those heady days of wonderful sounds and sophisticated moods of love and excitement. Today's shit is grotesque by comparison.

John Perks

7y↑3

Thozamile - OK, we agree. For Rap there's crap. For Pop there's a ready mop. But I don't have time for the waiting game as September beckons. Hence the magic of YouTube with its vast library of wonderful music .

John Perks

7y↑3

The music of Brazil is exciting, with a great selection of rhythms and moods

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Antonio Fernandes de Queiroga

5y↑2

Good version, but I still consider Walter Wanderley's version the best recording.

Laurent James

7y↑5

Billy May invente la samba funéraire.

william9532

10y↑1

esto si es musica, i like me????

am74343

11y↑5

The most famous version is from Walter Wanderley's 1966 album "Rain Forest". The Billy May version (the one in THIS video you are hearing right now) was recorded later.

Ian Blakesley

6y↑2

I still think Walter Wanderley has the edge on this version!

Antonio Fernandes de Queiroga

@Ian Blakesley Agreed.

ToySoldier Nerio

4y↑2

this is the song that plays whenever you went afk from destroy all humans even in the original

am74343

11y

This version in this video is Billy May. The Walter Wanderley version can be heard here on Youtube if you add /watch?v=UcR3K6mVctw to the end. The Walter Wanderley version has a scratchy cabassa/afuche instrument on the left speaker. The Walter Wanderley version also has the "ride cymbal" going pretty much through the entire tune. This Billy May version has a sparser instrumentation than the Walter Wanderley version does.

Eli be dum

I knew I had heard this melody from somewhere

Anderson Khel

11y↑3

The same lenght and the same arrangement Walter did 8 years before become famous in USA. Today we have the WEB to show people the true.

Anderson Khel

11y↑1

Yes you are right "amtrakatsfnyc" this arrangement was recorded by Walter Wanderley in Brazil, before he went to live in USA, his first recording is in Vinyl and the title of the music is: "SAMBA DE VERÃO", Summer Samba is a mere translation to English, the composer of the music are two Brazilien brothers: Marcos Valle e Paulo Sérgio Valle, they were friends of Walter that asked for recorded on his Hammond B3, after 8 years B. May recorded with the same Walter Improvisation, May don't play well

Anderson Khel

11y↑1

UNTIL TODAY NOBODY UNDERSTOOD why Billy May has copied an entire arrangement including the wonder Brazilian style improvisation of the unique Walter Wanderley. Just listen both and you perceive that Billy May fakes to play, too much insecure, but he did the exactly improvisation, why. Note at the end, how Walter W ends like a pro, May playing is like a student that can't figure the rhythm. I Remember when Walter Recorded that before become famous in Brazil, Billy May couldn't recorded if at all.

John Lauter

He "copied" the arrangement because he was paid to do so by Time-Life Records, he transcribed hundreds of original arrangements and conducted the sessions for Time-Life, who released them back in the 1970s. Some band arrangements dated back into the 1920s and May very faithfully recreated them. He just did what his bosses wanted him to do.

Mr. Friendship

2y↑2

I don't think it's even a copy, it's most likely a cover version of the original song.

amtrakatsfnyc

12y↑1

Yes, this is Walter Wanderly.I have it on a LP.

Afel Nemes

5y↑1

No, this isn´t Walter,.

amtrakatsfnyc

11y

Type in " Walter Wanderly - So Nice" and listen to the selection. It is identical to the one that we are discussing.

BlotoPK

14y↑2

Turiru turiru turiruru tiru! ♪♫

HeyMikey_HeLikesIt

5y↑9

Just here to go to the top floor on an elevator....

Lepiota

with the crocodiles :)

Will Key

4y↑4

Why does it sound so familar to me?

Allan Shulstad

12y↑2

It's the same length as Wanderley's version.(3:07)

Anderson Khel

11y↑6

Aline Hernandez, the name of this song is not "SO NICE", maybe Billy May though that WALTER WANDERLEY music was so nice, and copied the entire arrangement. The real name of this music is; SAMBA DE VERÃO, become SUMMER SAMBA when he recorded his second LP in USA and included some old works made in Brazil. Compare both audio, see that Walter don't have those small "rallentandos" of someone learning to play. The music is 100% from Brazil, Bossa Rhythm, Brazilian composers, Instruments and player;

Winslow Yerxa

Gilberto Nedel júnior

Great answer. The true

Eltamir

13y↑1

I agree. This is Walter Wanderley's instrumental version.

Afel Nemes

You are deaf then.

CuteCArtsy

4y↑1

@Afel Nemes He's not deaf, this is a remaster of the instrumental version of the song, there's one with vocals sung by Astrud Gilberto

Afel Nemes

@CuteCArtsy What does that to do with what I say: This is not Walter Wanderley, is Billy May.

CuteCArtsy

@Afel Nemes Walter's original version was in the 60s, this version was made somewhere in the 90s, and Walter Wanderley died in 1986

Afel Nemes

@CuteCArtsy Can't you read?

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ak

6y↑6

i swear ive heard this somewhere in a game or smth

Chavapa The Bear

6y↑2

mir a this Song was in the video game destroy All humans

Mr. Friendship

5y↑1

You mean "Destroy All Humans" ? I never heard of the game but some comments brought me here.

Philip Mancera

3y↑2

Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal Analyze this (1999).

stevothemanlyman

13y↑12

*awkward silence in the elevator*

Shooting Dio

GOTTA DOUBLE THAT GAMING JOURNALISM - WITH GEOFF KEIGHLEY

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4y↑1

Today Is my birthday!

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Thanks Bro

Aline Hernandez

11y↑1

Tuuiiuuuuuu tuuuriuuriuuuuu´

Anderson Khel

11y↑2

LISTEN TO WALTER WANDERLEY version, and you will perceive that Billy May fakes to play the rhythm, he is very insecure, like someone who copied the project, but, compare with Walters play, or GO FURTHER, listen to all records of Walter Wanderley and you'll see, who is the organist, it is impossible to say that the STYLE of PLAYING belongs to Billy May who copied him, the same Hammond registration that Walter used before B. May know him, maybe B. May asked for record the same way, we don't know.