Showing posts with label Sentimental journey.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sentimental journey.. Show all posts

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Sentimental journey.


Les Brown and His Band of Renown had been performing the song, but were unable to record it because of the 1942–44 musicians' strike. When the strike ended, the band, with Doris Dayas vocalist, had a hit record with the song,[1] Day's first #1 hit, in 1945. The song's release coincided with the end of WWII in Europe and became the unofficial homecoming theme for many veterans.[1] The recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 36769, with the flip side "Twilight Time".[2] The record first reached the Billboard charts on March 29, 1945 and lasted 23 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.[3] The song actually reached the charts after the later-recorded "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time".
About this same time, the Merry Macs had a recording following Brown and Day which featured a bouncy arrangement where the group modulates (or augments) the verse eight times in the last half of the song. A vocal feat for any group attempting to record a song in one take without the benefit of tape editing in that era of modern recording.
The song later became something of a standard with jazz artists and was recorded, among others, by Buck Clayton with Woody Herman and by Ben Sidran. Frank Sinatra recorded his version of the song in 1961. Rosemary Clooney issued an album Sentimental Journey (2001) which included the song.

Doris Day- Sentimental Journey

https://youtu.be/BgRgExUMEis

Doris Day & Les Brown - rare 1985 reunion video of "Sentimental Journey"


The Platters - Sentimental Journey (1963)



Ken Griffin – Sentimental journey

Mike Reed plays "Sentimental Journey" on the Hammond Organ

Lyrics

The song describes someone about to take a train to a place they have a great emotional attachment for. It describes their mounting anticipation and they wonder why they ever roamed away.
Its memorable opening verse is:
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories.[1]


Doris Day – Sentimental Journey Lyrics

Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories

Got my bag, got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
Like a child in wild anticipation
Long to hear that "All aboard"

Seven, that's the time we leave, at seven
I'll be waitin' up for heaven
Countin' every mile of railroad track
That takes me back

Never thought my heart could be so 'yearny'
Why did I decide to roam?
Gotta take that sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home,

Sentimental journey!
Songwriters: PRIMA, LOUIS/BUTERA, SAM /
Sentimental Journey lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

PS
A very popular LP record by Ken Griffin, played in the Medical Students Common room, Kynsey road, Colombo, in the early 1960s.