Frank Sinatra’s performance of “Night and Day” on Sinatra & Strings, arranged by Don Costa, is deep and intense, Frank at his most romantic. It instantly draws you into the rapturous dance of the song. In The Gay Divorcée, it’s so charming the way Fred Astaire segues from plain-spoken conversation into the dramatic eight-line verse of “Night and Day” with a self-mocking air, like “I’m laying it on a little thick and I don’t care.” That verse has everything: onomatopoeia, cunning rhyme, not a wasted word. Following are a few of the lyrics that are never absent from my head very long. I did not start seriously writing lyrics until I was in my thirties, at which time the endeavor became the centerpiece of my life.
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