Can't get this song out of my head. Going for the Bing Crosby/Les Paul style arrangement. Drums, bass and piano from Band in a Box, with CBG and vox over the top. GDG tuned playing in the key of C.

I've always been a fan of the crooner style and Bing and Les, but I never knew this was the big hit at the end of WWII. It makes perfect sense and just makes me appreciate it all the more.

This was a lesson it singing down low, finding some chord substitutions, and stealing some Les Paul licks. His playing can sound old-fashioned these days even in the CBG world, but there's so much left to be explored on 3 strings when you approach it from different directions.

Play on y'all...

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Comment by turtlehead on September 29, 2016 at 1:28pm

Thanks RTZ.  I'm a sucker for those old standards.

Comment by RTZGUITARS on September 26, 2016 at 8:00pm

glad I went digging in the video pages and found this oldscooltune that be some mighty fine playin and a sing in that there can.

Comment by turtlehead on September 23, 2016 at 11:49am

Thank ya Clock!

Comment by Clock The Wolf on September 19, 2016 at 5:54pm

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Comment by turtlehead on September 19, 2016 at 8:59am

Thanks Eic, Pick, and Nancy - I love the gif!

Thanks AD and Oily.  Postmodern Jukebox is pretty neat and Willie was probably my first intro to these kind of standards through the Stardust album.

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 19, 2016 at 7:08am
Willie Nelson used the title of this song in his song, Funny How Time Slips Away,mwhich was written in a similar crooner style. Try that one next, Turtle; you're on to something good here.

And for those of you who like retro styling so, please please please check out Postmodern Jukebox on YT!
Comment by A.D.EKER on September 19, 2016 at 6:33am

Groovy Turtle! smood ride!

Comment by Nancy kat on September 19, 2016 at 5:11am

Awww you did this so sweetlyTurtle~ also very well played~ vocals just purrrrfect!!! Oh thanks for the history on it to~~Meeeowww^..^

Comment by the anonymous pick on September 19, 2016 at 3:16am

yup!

Comment by Eric Constance on September 18, 2016 at 2:05pm

Well done.....

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