RAY CONNIFF - LULLABAY OF BIRDLAND

LULLABAY OF BIRDLAND

RAY CONNIFF

Composer: George shearing & b. y. forster

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

Album: lullaby of birdland

Label: philips

Genre: jazz

Year: 1952

"Lullaby of Birdland" is a 1952 popular song with music by George Shearing and lyrics by George David Weiss under the pseudonym "B. Y. Forster" in order to circumvent the rule that ASCAP and BMI composers could not collaborate. The song has become a jazz standard.

The title refers to Charlie "Bird" Parker and the Birdland jazz club named after him.

Joseph Raymond "Ray" Conniff (Attleboro, Massachusetts, 6 de novembro de 1916 — Escondido, Califórnia, 12 de Outubro de 2002) foi um líder de banda e arranjador norte-americano, considerado o rei do easy listening.

Seu estilo de associar vozes masculinas a trombones, trompas e saxofones baixo, e vozes femininas a pistons, clarinetes e saxofones altos, dava-lhe uma característica inusitada e só sua. Seu coral limitava-se a pronunciar sons como da-das e du-du-dus e outras variantes, ao invés de palavras, o que imprimia um "colorido musical", intensificando os tons suaves e, ao mesmo tempo, abrandando os mais fortes.

Lullaby of Birdland, that's what I

Always hear when you sigh

Never in my wordland

Could there be ways to reveal

In a phrase how I feel

Have you ever heard two turtle doves

Bill and coo when they love?

That's the kind of magic

Music we make with our lips when we kiss

And there's a weepy old willow

He really knows how to cry

That's how I'd cry in my pillow

If you should tell me farewell and goodbye

Lullaby of Birdland whisper low

Kiss me sweet and we'll go

Flyin' high in Birdland

High in the sky up above

All because we're in love