Thou Swell

Thou Swell

"Thou Swell" is a show tune, a popular song and a jazz standard.

The musice was written by Richard Rodgers, with words by Lorenz Hart, for the 1927 musical "A Connecticut Yankee". There are jazz vocal renditions by Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Blossom Dearie and Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. Fats Waller and Billy May both recorded the song instrumentally.

The lyric is notable, as indicated by the title, for its mix of old English and modern slang.

External links

* [http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-2/thouswell.htm "Thou Swell" at jazzstandards.com]


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