LET'S FALL IN LOVE- A MOVIE SONG

Let's Fall in Love-A Movie Song :  Arlen and Ted Koehler were invited to write music for a 1933 Hollywood film called Let's Fall in Love.  On the train trip out to California, the song took shape and eventually was called the same name as the film.

 It features a verse or introductory section that has some clever rhyming by Koehler,
       " It's just a mental,   sentimental,      incidental                  alibi"
       " Why go on stalling, I am falling, love is calling, why be shy?

The song has a natural swinging pulse and is yet another example of Arlen's ability to be casual, funny and up beat. In the version featured, Frank Sinatra is in fine form backed by a very jazzy arrangement by Johnny Mandel. Mandel came out of the big band era and is also a fine composer of songs like The Shadow of Your Smile, Emily, the theme from Mash. Sinatra is more loose and improvisational in his own approach. He starts with the bridge, then goes back to the verse before swinging the chorus. The album is appropriately called Ring A Ding Ding and I would defy anyone not to tap their feet while listening.
Diana Krall. the fine singer/pianist offers a more relaxed but still pulsating version proving that there a number of ways to swing a song.



SINTARA LINK:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=061kkZU8gPY

KRALL LINK. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJHXQAs9vlk