[ a non-commercial project ]

Music for THE GIRL FRIEND

You can't ignore Miss Starry-Eyes,
As harmless do not deem her;
It's not just coincidence
That dreamer rhymes with schemer.

SECTIONS INCLUDE:

   I Remember You
         Victor Schertzinger /
            Johnny Mercer

   That Old Black Magic
         Harold Arlen /
            Johnny Mercer

   More Than You Know
         Vincent Youmans /
            Billy Rose /
            Edward Eliscu

   In the Still of the Night
         Cole Porter

    She's In Love With Love

Her plotz are like her music though,
The sweet and subtle kind,
And Victims of her dreamy schemes
Have never seemed to mind.

ARTIE SHAW
and His Orchestra
Instrumental Fox Trots

ED 2382

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THE  GIRL...
AS FEATURED IN
                       

In his portraits of enticing young ladies for Esquire Magazine, Artist George Petty has performed a truly epochal marriage of the physics of the curved line and the intangibles of glamor. The alluring image of the Petty Girl multiplied across the nation during the years of the famous Esquire Calendar, and soon spread across the world as the wartime international pin-up favorite. The Petty Girl took her place once again in Esquire's peacetime calendar, and a whole new generation of admirers proclaims the smiling girl with the direct gaze and the indirect curves. She has incited poets to untold numbers of quatrains, young men to derring do (and to an occasional don't) and now, with Orpheus sending her surreptitious grace notes, the Petty Girl sweetly and easily turns the key to musical enjoyment. Like the maiden in he nursery rhyme, "she makes music wherever she goes . . ."