A song, older than me. And a new one.

I recently discovered \”Cry me a river\”, a song composed and first published in 1953 by Arthur Hamilton (see the song\’s Wikipedia and JazzStandards pages).

And since Mr. Hamilton originally wrote this for Ella (yes, *the* Ella Fitzgerald!), here is her version of it:

In 1955, it was recorded by Julie London – and even if you\’re younger, you might know her version from a movie (\”V for Vendetta\”):

Some friends of mine from Wikiloops, French guitarist OliVBee and also French singer marmotte also recorded a very beautiful version of it and uploaded it to Youtube:

Chord progressions cannot be copyrighted (for a bit of background in formation (in German) on copyright, cover versions, and so on, see an article in Sound & Recording for instance), so a bit later OliVBee uploaded a slightly changed version of it as \”Tears Made Of Silver\” onto the loops for people to get creative with these chords.

And then came Shi (from England), and she developed a story not about herself being sad like in the original, but about a missing girl called \”Emily\”. And then Wade (from New Zealand) played a beautiful sax onto it, finally making it irresistible for me (to not jump in).

I\’ve shown it before on these pages, but here it\’s again for comparison: \”Looking for Emily\”:

And the list of musicians on this is:

As always, thanks for reading, viewing, and listening.