I'M OLD FASHIONED
From the film "You Were Never Lovelier" (1942)
(Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer)

Fred Astaire & Nan Wynn (Film Soundtrack) - 1942
Geraldo & His Orch. (vocal: Beryl Davis)

Also recorded by : Beegie Adair; Jamey Aebersold; Gail Allen;
David Allyn; John Arpin; Harold Ashby; Chet Baker; Bruce Barth; 
Bobby Belfry; Jim Belt; William Bolcom; Joanne Brackeen; 
Josephine Bradley; Carolyn Breuer; Pam Bricker; Bob Brookmeyer; 
Dave Brubeck; John Bunch; Kenny Burrell; Chris Buzzelli; 
Royce Campbell; Lodi Carr; Barbara Carroll; Ron Carter; 
Dave Catney; Cathy Chemi; Pete Christlieb; Robert Clary; 
Rosemary Clooney; John Coltrane; Johnny Costa; Noël Coward; 
Critical Mass; Xavier Cugat; Menno Daams; Lorna Dallas; 
Jeremy Davenport; Richard Davis; Steve Davis; Blossom Dearie; 
Riccardo del Fra; Elaine Delmar; Paul Desmond; Kenny Drew; 
Duke Two; Bruce Dunlap; Catherine Dupuis; George Dvorsky; 
Wayne Escoffery; Lee Evans; Art Farmer; Eileen Farrell; Eddie Fisher; 
Ella Fitzgerald; Tommy Flanagan Trio; Russ Freeman; David Friesen; 
Johnny Frigo; Curtis Fuller; Judy Garland; Stan Getz; Banu Gibson;
Jimmy Giuffre; Benny Goodman & His Orch.; Dave Gordon Quintet;
Joe Gransden; Tom Grant; Neal Haiduck; Mary Cleere Haran;
Alan Harris; Monica Hatch; Tubby Hayes; David Hazeltine Trio;
Allen Hermann; Joan Hickey; Shirley Horn; Alvaro Is; Christian Jacob;
Keith Jarrett; Hank Jones; Mike Jones; Kitty Kallen; Rebecca Kane;
June Katz; Stacey Kent; Dorothy Kirsten; Ryan Kisor; Julius LaRosa;
Steve Lawrence; Jennifer Lee; Michele Lee; Gary LeMel; Lou Levy;
Mel Lewis; Martha Lorin; Mundell Lowe; Christina Machado;
Joe Magnarelli Quintet; Adam Makowicz; Jenna Mammina; Kitty Margolis;
Charlie Mariano; Susannah McCorkle; Sylvia McNair; Chris McNulty;
Marian McPartland; Johnny Mercer; Helen Merrill; Glenn Miller;
Miss Justine; Red Mitchell; The Modernaires; James Moody; 
Robert Morse; Anne Marie Moss; Sandy Mosse; Skip Nelson; 
New York Swing; Phineas Newborn; Mark Nightingale; Jessye Norman;
North Star Jazz Ensemble; Mandy Patinkin; Roy Patterson; 
Oscar Peterson; Andreas Pettersson Trio; André Previn; Louis Prima;
Doug Raney; Sonny Rollins; Jimmy Rowles; Ed Saindon; Saxpak;
Stefan Scaggiari; Hal Schaefer; Jonathan Schwartz; 
Cathy Segal-Garcia; Al Seibert; Bud Shank; Ralph Sharon Trio;
George Shearing; Cybill Shepherd; Bobby Shew; Dinah Shore;
Derek Smith; Johnny Smith; Louis Stewart; Sandy Stewart; 
Fred Stride; Byron Stripling; Martin Taylor; Dame Kiri Te Kanawa;
Joris Teepe; Three Of A Kind; Charles Tichenor; Martha Tilton;
Cal Tjader; Dick Todd; Warren Vaché; Johnny Varro; Mike Vax;
Marlene Ver Planck; Tom Vickery; Ed Vodicka & Friends; 
Voices of Ascension; Paul Vornhagen; Thilo Wagner; Mal Waldron;
Melissa Walker; Bennie Wallace; Cedar Walton; Sadao Watanabe;
Klaus Weiss; Paul Weston & His Orch.; Paul Whiteman; 
Margaret Whiting; Steve Wilkerson; Andy Williams; John Williams;
Victoria Williams; Claude Williamson; Cassandra Wilson; 
Mike Wofford; Monica Worth; Richard Wyands Trio.


I am not such a clever one about the latest fads
I admit I was never one adored by local lads
Not that I ever tried to be a saint
I’m the type that they classify as quaint

I’m old fashioned, I love the moonlight
I love the old fashioned things
The sound of rain upon a window pane
The starry song that April sings
This years fancies are passing fancies
But sighing sighs, holding hands
These my heart understands

I’m old fashioned but I don’t mind it
That’s how I want to be
As long as you agree
To stay old fashioned with me.

(Orchestral Interlude)

I’m old fashioned but I don’t mind it
That’s how I want to be
As long as you agree
To stay old fashioned with me.


(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - November 2004)