Ella Fitzgerald sings " This Tines The Dreams on Me"  Along with the more famous "Blues In The Night" written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer from the film with he same name, This Tines the Dreams' on me is a lovely ballad containing a beautifully constructed bridge or release that steadily climbs upward before relaxing into the final chorus.
Ella, as usual, sings with her characteristic charm and warmth while performing a ballad.
NOTE: Arlen had hoped that the arrangements for his Arlen Songbook could be done by Nelson Riddle whose Fitzgerald/Riddle Gershwin Songbook is the finest set of 50 plus arrangements I have ever heard for an individual composer's Songbook.


https://youtu.be/XYCXLvUCRkM

Ella Fitzgerald sings " This Times The Dreams On Me"  Written by Harold Arlen

Fun to be fooled   This is a song from a 1934 musical revue called Life Begins at 8:40. The music was by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It indicates that the singer knows that plunging into any new romance is fraught with the peril that it might not work out. Nevertheless, the thrill of the beginning connection is worth potential romantic failure.
"Spring is here, I'm a fool if I fall again
 And yet I'm enthralled again, by it's call again
You say you love me, I know from the past 
You mean to love me But These Things Don't Last."
The singer is Ann Gilbert who provides a nice jazzy
performance in keeping with the tongue-in-cheek 
nature of Gershwin's clever lyrics.

https://youtu.be/1th5KjQjfnY 

Arlen's "When The Sun Come Out"  Starting out as a lament, when the sun finally does come out, a more positive frame of mind emerges. The bridge  or center section introduced by ' Love is funny' opens up the possibility of better times ahead. Like many of Arlen's ballads, this song is drenched in a real blues feeling which is enhanced by Billy May's Big Band arrangement and Ella really starting to wail before a final subsiding and happy resolution now that the sun has finally come out.

 https://youtu.be/yfbuBgphsOM

Sinatra sings " My Shining Hour" For the 1943 film " The Skys The Limit" Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer wrote this lovely pure melody which Arlen has said proved that he was more than a writer of Blues songs.
Sinatra provides a convincing performance honouring Mercer's tender sentiments.

https://youtu.be/f4wpqdu3P7A 

A Walk Around The Block -WITH Doris Day

Arlen and Harburg wrote this delightful travelogue in song while admitting that such places would be nice to visit, but in the Depression we just better "Take a walk around the block."
Doris Day has been under rated as a singer. However, Andre Previn, no slouch as a musician of discriminating taste happily recorded a duet album with Doris.

My favourite line is " In Vladivostok, where Bolsheviks 
flock."

https://youtu.be/TvW4aD3B-jo 

 

Buds won't Bud   Nature conspires to thwart Romance
In 1937, Harold Arlen an E.Y.Harburg wrote several songs for Hooray for What.