Shlepping about two stone in my The North Face pack, to Menalto not Ladakh, to sip-and-post, because two ongoing threads merged:

Shields and Salerno mention that Salinger’s short story “Uncle Wiggly” was made into a shlocky Hollywood film, Title TBA, but a silver lining was the song “My Foolish Heart” which became a jazz standard. Back to Ted Gioia (and by the way both tomes are on loan from Palo Alto’s finest…library) “The Jazz Standards” which gives clues to how to approach this song.

Jane Monheit popped up before the ones that Gioia mentions, and having a soft spot in my heart/pack for Jane, I let this pre-empt my other ten possible choices.

Billy Eckstine sings from 1949 setting the bar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MvcM8eLQaA

TG mentions the version from a live album cd, “Live From Chicago” recorded at the Green Mill in 1999 but I have here Kurt Elling doing the Washington/Young song in Montreal:

Here is a link to the cd; the version of the song goes about 12 minutes here:

Gioia gives a good summary of the relation of the story to the movie to the song to “Catcher in the Rye” — if there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies — and then lists these hints for this composition: Eckstine, Gene Ammons, Bill Evans with Scott LaFaro et al, Gary Burton, Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, John McLaughlin, Lenny Breau (new to me, recorded in Maine??), Bobby Hutcherson with McCoy Tyner, Elling, Ahmad Jamal with George Coleman. Note that Gioia lists audio recordings whereas my little tribute to him notes Youtube-accessible cuts, and that he lists date and place of the audio recordings but not the label per se, which is novel.

(A side note: “Baby It’s Cold Outside” won the Academy Award for best song in a movie that year, 1949, but does not make the cut in TG’s book; I ran all this by my dad, who claimed not to recognize “My Foolish Heart” but recalled that Dinah Shore sang “Baby…”; meanwhile I noted that among others Zooey Dechanel does a version of that, which seems to be making a comeback. And this is really off topic and too plastic for my alto, but double-checking the omission of “Baby” by searching for Dinah Shore in Gioia’s index yielded that “I Hear a Rhapsody” was featured by Fritz Lang in a Barbara Stanwyck flick “Clash by Night” which I missed but my dad and or maybe local singer-songwriter cultural maven Katy Gorman may have caught, sung by Tony Martin in 1952: it’s is not just my book-bag that is over-stuffed and slightly disheveled, I admit).

My source (the source of my hernia and bulging L-3):

and with 117 Amazon reviews so far

compared to 53 here (and probably not Jon Yardley this time, not even on long flight to Rome)

edit to add: I just blew thru another 20 minutes to fact check my statement about the weight of my book-bag (and my “heart-pack”) as being “two stone”; it’s probably closer to only one. I was trying to find the source of “stone” as a unit of measure and was looking at Deuteronomy 23:15 I think it is, but jonesing to see what Robert Alter in his “Five Books” might say as the translation: you shall not carry a stone and a stone (אבן “vuh..and אבן) which is also translated as you shall not carry diverse weights, a great and a small. I was temped to comment on some random graphic designer in Charlotte NC who uses the quote on her website. The Google has this snippet (the אבן) but it was not “cached” and did not search up easily on the current site of hers. Not quite finding the relation between various versions of these songs (recordings, live versions) and “diverse weights” but etymology and history of knowledge interests me; Robert Alter belongs in my pantheon, up there with David Shields and Ted Gioia, as distinct from re-reading “Catcher…” or the Glass stories or Salinger and wizards of fiction per se. What is Hebrew for “stone”? “Achon”? I need to suss “hebrew aleph-bet”

and i would click “jazz” category if i new how to work this new computer proper-like

it says “do not carry in your bag…” and I am talking about “the things I carry”: kinda works

ten minutes later: hebrew word for stone is “even” or “eh-ven” so its Aleph Bet Nun although I had written a Kaf (“ch”). And related somehow to word for “son” “ben” and “ebony” “hardwood” if you believe what you can find on the internet…

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