“Nearness Of You”, Hoagy Carmichael in F at 95 BPM. PDF chord sheet linked below.
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“The Nearness of You” is a popular song written in 1937 by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics by Ned Washington. Intended for an unproduced Paramount Pictures film titled Romance In The Rough, the studio’s publishing division Famous Music reregistered and published the song three years later in 1940. It was first recorded by Chick Bullock and his Orchestra on Vocalion.
The song was also heard in the later 1940 recording “In the Mood” by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, with vocals by Ray Eberle. Later in the 1940s and the early 1950s, many other artists covered the song, including George Shearing, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, Bob Manning, and a duet version by Louis Armstrong with Ella Fitzgerald. James Taylor joined Michael Brecker for a pop/jazz version on Brecker’s 2000 album Nearness of You: The Ballad Book. Two years later, the song closed the Grammy Award–winning album Come Away with Me by Norah Jones.
“Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.” – Yehudi Menuhin
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