Yes, My Darling
Daughter
Yesterday’s
Gardenias
Yesterthoughts
You And I
You Are The One
You Stepped Out Of A
Dream
You’ve
Got Me This Way
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on November 15th 1940 with Marion Hutton.
Words
and music by Jack Lawrence. (From the revue „Crazy With The
Heat“)
I’ve gotta be good or momma will
scold me
(Yes, yes, yes!)
I asked her and this is what she told
me:
(Yes, yes, yes!)
Mother, may I go out dancing?
Yes, my darling daughter!
Mother, may I try romancing?
Yes, my darling daughter!
What if there’s a moon,
Momma darling, and it’s shining
on the water?
Mother, must I
keep on dancing?
Yes, my
darling daughter!
What if he’ll propose,
Momma darling, when the night is
growing shorter?
Mother, what
should be my answer?
„Yes“,
my darling daughter!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on June 17th 1942 with Ray Eberle and the Modernaires.
Written by Dick Robertson, Nelson
Cogane and Sammy Mysels.
Here in my book of loneliness
I
press yesterday’s gardenias
Still
in the spell of your caress
I
press yesterday’s gardenias
Long
gone is the bloom
But there‘s
a faint perfume
Here in my
lonely room
And in my heart,
dear...
Words that a lover can’t
explain*
Are in yesterday’s
gardenias
We said goodbye to
happiness
But not yesterday’s
gardenias
So I try to recapture
The rapture
Of
one night of bliss
And press
yesterday’s gardenias
With
a kiss...!
(*: Ray makes a mistake here in the lyric - he sings: "Words that a lover can't EXPLAIN, but it should be EXPRESS to rhyme with happiness - check the Charlie Spivak/Garry Stevens recording. - notes by Dave Weiner)
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on September 3rd 1940 with Ray Eberle.
Words
by Stanley Adams, music by Victor Herbert. (He actually composed it
in 1900 as an instrumental!)
My yesterthoughts return to me
Through all the years between
I carved your name upon a tree
When we were seventeen...
My yesterthoughts recall the night
By that old wishing well
That’s where I wished with all
my might
That you would feel
the spell
I tried to say, „I love you“
then at the start
You read the
invitation in my heart, my darling...
You were so sweet and lovely then
Now as I look at you
I
love you more than I did when
My
yesterthoughts were new...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on June 25th 1941 with Ray Eberle.
Written
by Meredith Wilson. (Note: This was the theme song of the radio show
„Maxwell House Coffee Time“!)
Darling, you and I
Know
the reason why
A summer sky is
blue
And we know why birds in
the trees
Sing melodies, too
And why love will grow
From
the first hello
Until the last
goodbye,
So to sweet romance
There is just one answer:
You
and I...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on November 22nd 1940 with Ray Eberle.
Written
by Carroll Carroll and John Scott Trotter.
You are the one all through eternity
Love has ordained that we should meet
Through ev’ry age our love has
held the stage
On each romantic
page we meet
I’ve always known somewhere in
this creation
I‘d find
the inspiration
Making my
dreams complete
My search is done
I
found my guiding star
Darling,
I’m sure you are
The
one...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on January 17th 1941 with Ray Eberle and the Modernaires.
Words by Gus Kahn, music by Nacio Herb
Brown. (From the movie „Ziegfeld Girl“)
You stepped out of a dream,
You
are too wonderful
To be what
you seem
Could there be eyes
like yours,
Could there be lips
like yours,
Could there be
smiles like yours,
Honest and
true?
You stepped out of a cloud,
I
want to take you away
Away from
the crowd
And have you all to
myself
Alone and apart
Out of a dream
Safe
in my heart...!
As recorded by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra on October 11th 1940 with Marion Hutton.
Words
by Johnny Mercer, music by Jimmy McHugh. (Originally from the
movie „You’ll Find Out“)
You’ve got me this way
Say, whatta you gonna do about it,
Whatta you gonna do about it?
You’ve got me this way
Crazy for you
You kiss me one day
Then,
seeing that I was true about it,
What
did you go and do about it
You
left me this way
Bluer than
blue
You thought it was funny
My
falling so hard
I’m
laughing my sides off
Honey,
you’re really a card...
You’ve got me this way
Say, now that I’m in a stew
about it
What am I gonna do
about it
I’m just gonna
stay
Crazy for you...