Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

This beautiful ballad was the only hit song to emerge from the 1942 movie "Something to Shout About," and in the years that followed, several vocalists charted with it, notably Sinatra and Dinah Shore. Like many Cole Porter songs, it has become a favorite of jazz instrumentalists as well. As you can hear from this arrangement in G, the 32-bar tune spends a lot of time in Em, and lends credence to the often repeated notion that Porter, a gentile among a generation of Jewish songwriters like Gershwin and Berlin, wrote the most Jewish melodies of all. Much of the song circles around Em with 2-5-1s and 6-2-5-1s (if you consider Em the 1 chord).