30 Days of Sheet Music, Day 7: Bewitched

From Rogers and Hammerstein to Rodgers and Hart, sweet apple cider to dry gin and vermouth.  To wit: ‘Bewitched’ from Pal Joey, from that brittle musical of theirs to stories by New Yorker writer John O’Hara.

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And here is the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald singing it. As Ira Gershwin said, in a sentiment I bet Richard Rodgers shared, “I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.”

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