Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

Introduced by James Stewart in the 1936 film "Born To Dance," "Easy To Love" was an instant hit, charting for three artists that same year. (Probably the best version, Billie Holiday's 1936 offering, was not as commercially successful but has endured!) "I've Got You Under My Skin," from the same movie, was also a smash hit that has been rendered by countless vocalists and jazz instrumentalists. "Easy To Love" is a 32 bar tune with the standard format: a 16 bar statement is played, you repeat the first half of it (only 6 bars in this tune) and end with a new melody and chord progression, different from the first ending. This key-of-F arrangement includes a few jazzy substitutions: in the vocal accompaniment, the Gb7 in bar 4 is a b5 substitute for C7; likewise the Ab7 in bar 16 of the instrumental solo.