They say it's wonderful - I. Berlin - Ukulele chord-melody w. pdf

They say it’s wonderful - I. Berlin (1946). A great ballad, originally from “Annie get your gun,” where it was premiered by Ethel Merman & Ray Middleton. A film version from 1950 has Howard Keel & Betty Hutton. I first heard this in an unforgettable version by John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman. Others include: Andy Russell, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Mathis, Doris Day & Robert Goulet (Goulet sings verse 2 & chorus 2), , Jimmy Scott, Hampton Hawes, Suzi Quatro (verse) & Eric Flynn, Tony Bennett, Stacey Kent, Bernadette Peters, Eliane Elias, Judy Garland & Howard Keel, Sathima Bea Benjamin, Beegie Adair, Kirsten Dunst, Seth MacFarlane (verse), Michael Feinstein (verse), Mary Martin, George Byron. Secondhand Songs lists 295 versions. Original key: F. Uke key: C. The verse is 16 bars AABA, built on I-vi-ii-V, with a shift to D minor in the third phrase. Simple and effective, with the repeated notes and limited range emphasizing the declamatory character. The chorus is 32 bars AABA. The A sections are based on the ii-V-I progression, but with some nice chords, such as the shift to D-7b5 (7888) at “falling in love” and the very cool Cdim7 with a suspended B in the melody (5322) a couple of bars later. The first A has a turnaround with 323x. This would usually be considered a G minor chord, but here the bass note is A, so that makes it an A7sus(b9). The bridge heads to Fmajor, and then to E minor, with a very striking turn to a whole-note Bb in the tune over an Ab9 (1021) chord, on the unlikely word “and.” Alec Wilder noticed this, and said that Berlin was the only composer who would try something like that. pdf link in the comments Youtube has been truncating these pdf links, so most of them don’t work. Over the past few years, I’ve posted over 200 arrangements, with pdf links - which don’t work. If there’s a song you want, let me know, and I’ll stick the link in a comment.