BLAH BLAH BLAH


(George Gershwin (m) / Ira Gershwin (l) ) 1931


As sung by Sarah Vaughan (with the Don Costa Orchestra)

Rereleased Jan 1997 [Snowbound/the Lonely Hours]


Also preformed by:

Chris Connor

Lincoln Mayorga

Jerri Winters

Christine Ebersole

El Brendel/Manya Roberti (in the film (below) )



I've written you a song

A beautiful routine

I hope you like it.


My technique can't be wrong

I learned it from the screen

I hope you like it.


I studied all that rhymes that all the lovers sing

And just for you I wrote this little thing...


Blah blah blah blah moon

Blah blah blah above

Blah blah blah blah croon

Blah blah blah above.


Tra la la la, tra la la la, la, merry month of May

Tra la la la, tra la la la, la, 'neath a cloud of grey.


Blah blah blah blah blah blah your hair

Blah blah blah your eyes

Blah blah blah blah care

Bla blah blah blah skies.


Tra la la la, tra la la la, la, cottage for two

Blah blah blah blah blah blah darling with you.


Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...


(fade to end)


Notes:


This fun melody formed part of the film score of the B & W 1931 Fox

Film 'Delicious', which was a romantic comedy. Historically speaking, this film

was the first in which the brothers Gershwin were hired to compose the

entire score.


Director: David Butler

Leads: Janet Gaynor / Charles Farrell / El Brendel / Raul Roulien


Sarah Vaughn, an American jazz singer who performed professionally from

1945 to 1990, was nicknamed ‘Sassy’ because of her rather informal

speech and manner. Many jazz buffs would argue that Ella Fitzgerald,

Billie Holiday and Sarah's voice were 'a wash'. She had superb range and

power and could sing scat delightfully. Her ability to manipulate the

listener's emotions with her dreamy voice brought her an avid following.

The NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Jazz Masters bestowed it’s

highest award on her in 1989.


(Transcribed by David Story July 2014)