FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU

(Jean Davis (m & l) )


As sung by Annette Hanshaw 1926 (Hanshaw playing solo piano here)

Released on 'Annette Hanshaw Lovable & Sweet' 1997



Why do I sigh

I wonder why

Why all the change in me.


It must be true

It must be you

Whoever thought that I'd be

Falling in love

Falling in love with you dear.


Learning to smile

Whispering I'll be true.

Roses are blooming everywhere

I never knew they grew so fair


Birds in the trees, sing memories about you

They seem to be, jealous of me,

They love you too

Even the moon shining above

Knows who I'm dreaming of

Falling in love

Falling in love with you.


(bridge Hanshaw on piano)


Falling in love

Falling in love with you dear

Learning to smile

Whispering I'll be true.


Roses are blooming everywhere

I never knew they grew so fair.


Birds in the trees, sing memories about you

They seem to be, jealous of me

They love you too

Even the moon shining above

Knows who I'm dreaming of

Falling in love

Falling in love with you.


That's all!


Notes:


(Catherine) Annette Hanshaw, an American, was a blues and jazz singer

from the 1920s and early 1930s and was purportedly one of the first

female jazz singers of that era.


She was known as 'The Personality Girl' or later as the 'The Flapper

Girl' by her followers and fit the 1920s period perfectly with her

flapper style and sweet innocent-sounding voice. She often ended her

songs with the cute tag "That's All" (above).


See  MY BLACKBIRDS ARE BLUEBIRDS NOW and  
LOVABLE & SWEET 

are other examples of her unique tag line. 


Some consider the later Hanshaw, a 'torch singer' along with the likes

of Ruth Etting, Mildred Bailey, Jane Froman and Bebe Daniels.

Strangely,she thought her abilities 'wanting' by her own standards and

retired early to married life, after only 15 years in the business.


Hanshaw also recorded under the names 'Gay Ellis' or 'Dot Dare' or

'Patsy Young' and a variety of other pseudonyms.


(Transcribed by David Story -May 2014)