You're My Thrill

By Jay Gorney & Sidney Clare
1933

Gorney (pictured) wrote this tune just one year after his most famous piece, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", which became an anthem of the Great Depression. A collaboration with "Good Ship Lollipop" lyricist Clare, "You're My Thrill" was introduced by trombonist Ward Silloway. It can most recently by heard on Diana Krall's newest album, Quiet Nights, released earlier this month.

Lyrics:

Youre my thrill,
You do something to me.
You send chills right through me
When I look at you,
'Cause you're my thrill.

Youre my thrill--
How my pulse increases,
I just go to pieces
When I look at you,
'Cause you're my thrill.

Nothing seems to matter--
Here's my heart on a silver platter!

Where's my will?
Why this strange desire
That keeps morning higher?
When I look at you,
I can't keep still.
You're my thrill.

Recorded By:

Billie Holiday
Lena Horne
Peggy Lee
Ella Fitzgerald
Joni Mitchell

Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

By Sam H. Stept, Sidney Clare & Bee Palmer
1930

Popular 1910s and '20s singer Palmer is credited as a co-composer, and it was she who introduced the song. Kate Smith was the one who initially popularized it, but it's most well-known rendition may be the one by Michigan J. Frog in Chuck Jones' classic "One Froggy Evening" cartoon. I'd also like to point that I cleverly used it as my answering machine music at one time.

Lyrics:

Please don't talk about me when I'm gone,
Oh honey, though our friendship ceases from now on.
And if you can't say anything real nice,
It's better not to talk at all, is my advice.

We're parting, you'll go your way, I'll go mine,
It's best that we do.
Give a little kiss and hope that it brings
Lots of love to you.

Makes no difference how I carry on,
Please don't talk about me when I'm gone.

Recorded By:

Frank Sinatra
Ella Fitzgerald
Leon Redbone
The Mills Brothers
Jerry Lee Lewis