I CONCENTRATE ON YOU
Cole Porter   1939


Ella Fitzgerald w Buddy Bregman & his Orch   
rec Feb 9th 1936 Hollywood


also-
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch '39
Eddie Duchin & his Orch '39
Frank Sinatra w Axel Stordahl & his Orch '47
Perry Como w Mitchell Ayres & his Orch '52
Mel Torme '53
Chris Connor w Ralph Sharon's Group '55
Judy Garland w Nelson Riddle & his Orch '58
Abbey Lincoln '59
Frank Sinatra w Nelson Riddle & his Orch '60
Jeri Southern w Billy May & his Orch '59
Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim '67
Ella Fitzgerald w Nelson Riddle & his Orch '72
Lena Horne


Whenever skies look grey to me
And trouble begins to brew,
Whenever the Winter winds become too strong,
I concentrate on you.


When fortune cries "Nay! Nay!" to me
And people decare "You're through!",
Whenever the blues become my only song,
I concentrate on you.


On your smile so sweet, so tender,
When at first your kiss I decline.
On the light in your eyes when I surrender,
And once again our arms intertwine;


And so, when wise men say to me
That love's young dream never comes true,
To prove that even wise men can be wrong,
I concentrate on you.
















(Contributed by Peter Akers - October 2008)