Sentimental And Melancholy (1937) - Kenny Sargent

from Decca 1158 78 rpm
with Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra
Music by Richard A. Whiting - Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

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From WB's _Ready, Willing and Able_ , this number includes what I consider to be one of the great Johnny Mercer's finest early lyrics. I love "But it's a kind of sugar-coated misery/And foolish as it seems, I sort of like to be/Sentimental and melancholy/Whenever I think about you." Though I find this chart at once light and clunky, I do love Kenny's earnest vocal.