CHET BAKER - EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE

EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE

CHET BAKER

INSTRUMENT: TRUMPET

SONGWRITER: COLE PORTER

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE

LABEL: STEEPLE CHASE

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1989

"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" is a song with lyrics and music by Cole Porter and published by Chappell & Company. It was introduced by Nan Wynn in 1944 in Billy Rose's musical revue Seven Lively Arts. The song has since become a jazz standard after gaining popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many artists have replaced the apostrophe in "ev'ry" with an "e".

Every Time We Say Goodbye is a 1986 drama film starring Tom Hanks and Cristina Marsillach. Hanks plays a gentile American in the Royal Air Force, stationed in mandatory Jerusalem, who falls in love with a girl from a Sephardic Jewish family.

The movie has the unusual distinction of being partly in the Ladino language; as of July 2006, there were only five movies in the entire Internet Movie Database that are even partially in the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. Much of the film was shot on location in Israel, mostly in Jerusalem.

The trumpeter and singer Chet Baker was in a position to come at the song from both sides, instrumentally and vocally. (A version is on the soundtrack to the film about Baker's last days, Let's Get Lost, Novus, 1989.) The solo is exquisitely pained, but the vocal manages to eclipse it - a quiet, resigned sigh, as of someone slowly exhaling cigarette smoke.