世纪最佳歌曲（五）
 I Got Rhythm（发现节奏）
《 I Got Rhythm》是一首歌，由George Gershwin作曲，Ira Gershwin 作词 ，发表于1930年 ，从而成为一种被广泛称为爵士乐的标准， 它的和弦级数，被称为“节奏变化” ，它也是爵士乐的基础，这是一首非常受欢迎的爵士乐。
这首歌出现在1951年的音乐剧电影《一个美国人在巴黎》，由Gene Kelly演唱。
I Got Rhythm
George and Ira Gershwin
Days can be sunny
With never a sigh,
Don't need what money
Can buy.
Birds in the tree sing
Their dayful of song.
Why shouldn't we sing
Along?
I'm chipper al the day,
Happy with my lot.
How did I get that way?
Look at what I've got.
I got rhythm,
I got music,
I got my man --
Who could ask for anything more?
I got daisies
In green pastures,
I got my man --
Who could ask for anything more?
I got daisies
In green pastures,
I got my man --
Who could ask for anything more?
Old man trouble,
I don't mind him --
You won't find him
'Round my door
I got starlight,
I got sweet dreams,
I got my man --
Who could ask for anything more --
Who could ask for anything more?!
Listen：
Ella Fitzgerald — I Got Rhythm
The Way We Were（我们的路）
The way we were《往日情怀》是同名电影由巴巴拉史翠姗(Barbara Streisand)主演 ，歌曲也是她原唱。这部1973年的电影表现的是美国五、六十年代两个信仰不同的男女之间的爱情悲剧。歌曲一如电影的主题一样充满伤感、怀旧和无奈。欣赏这首歌当然是听既是影星又是歌星的Barbara Streisand版本。
The Way We Were
Marvin Hamlisch, Alan & Marilyn Bergman
Memories light the corner of my mind.
Misty water color memories
Of the way we were.
Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind,
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were.
Can it be that it was all so simple then,
Or has time rewritten every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again,
Tell me? would we? could we?
Memories may be beautiful and yet,
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget.
So it's the laughter
We will remember,
Whenever we remember
The way we were;
The way we were.
Listen：
Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
Stardust（星尘）
Stardust
Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we're apart
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust
Of yesterday
The music
Of the years
Gone by
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely nights
Dreaming of a song.
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you.
When our love was new, and each kiss an inspiration.
But that was long ago, and now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song.
Beside the garden wall, when stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
Of paradise where roses grew.
Though I dream in vain, in my heart you will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain.
这首《 STARDUST 》是美国著名作曲家 HOAGY CARMICHAEL *在上世纪二十年代的作品，是首很美丽的摇摆舞曲。
据说， HOAGY CARMICHAEL 是在某个晚上仰望星空，忽然想起自己以往的女朋友，就写下这首被称为美国其中一首最浪漫的情歌《 STARDUST 》，而这首歌也让刚抛弃法律专业，投身音乐事业的 HOAGY CARMICHAEL 一曲成名。
而在 HOAGY CARMICHAEL 写成这歌四年后，才由 MITCHELL PARISH 填上词，再一次将《 STARDUST 》推上高峰。
选自《Brother Shark's Blog 》
欣赏《 STARDUST 》，当然离不开Nat King Cole的版本。
Listen：
Nat King Cole - Stardust
I Could Have Danced All Night（我跳了一夜舞）
《I Could Have Danced All Night》 选自1964年由百老汇剧改编的影片《My Fair Lady》（窈窕淑女），由Frederick Loewe作曲， Alan Jay Lerner作词，发表于1956年。 影片中演唱者是Marni Mixon，而女主角卖花女Eliza Doolittle的扮演者是Audrey Hepburn，百老汇剧最早由Julie Andrews演唱，这里贴出的版本还是选择后者。
I Could Have Danced All Night
Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner
Eliza Bed! Bed! I couldn't go to bed!
My head's too light to try to set it down! Sleep! Sleep!
I couldn't sleep tonight.
Not for all the jewels in the crown!
I could have danced all night!
I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things I've never done before.
I'll never know What made it so exciting;
Why all at once My heart took flight. I only know when he
Began to dance with me I could have danced,
danced, danced all night!
Servant 1 It's after three now.
Servant 2 Don't you agree now,
She ought to be in bed.
Eliza I could have danced all night!
I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things I've never done before.
I'll never know What made it so exciting.
Why all at once my heart took flight.
I only know when he
Began to dance with me.
I could have danced, danced danced all night!
Mrs. Pearce I understand, dear.
It's all been grand, dear.
But now it's time to sleep.
Eliza I could have danced all night,
I could have danced all night.
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings,
And done a thousand things I've never done before.
I'll never know What made it so exciting.
Why all at once my heart took flight. I only know when he
Began to dance with me I could have danced, danced,
danced All night!
Listen：
Julie Andrews －I Could Have Danced All Night 《My Fair Lady》
That Old Black Magic（古老的黑魔法）
That Old Black Magic
Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
That old black magic has me in its spell
That old black magic that you weave so well
Icy fingers up and down my spine
The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine
The same old tingle that I feel inside
When that elevator starts its ride
Down and down I go, round and round I go
Like a leaf that's caught in the tide
I should stay away but what can I do
I hear your name, and I'm aflame
Aflame with such a burning desire
That only your kiss can put out the fire
You are the lover that I've waited for
The mate that fate had me created for
And every time your lips meet mine
Baby down and down I go, all around I go
In a spin, loving the spin that I'm in
Under that old black magic called love
《That Old Black Magic》 是一首流行歌曲，音乐作者是 Harold Arlen ，歌词作者是Johnny Mercer 。 这首歌是出版于 1942年，并已成为一种经常录音的标准版本，其中演绎著名的有Glenn Miller 、Margaret Whiting 、Frank Sinatra 、小Sammy Davis等，这里贴出的是小Sammy Davis的版本，无论演唱、乐队及录音，都是一流的，了不起！
Listen：
Sammy Davis Jr - That Old Black Magic
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