Deborah Harry - Prelude To A Kiss
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Written by: Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon and Irving Mills. First recoreded in 1938 by Ellington and his Orchestra featuring Johnny Hodges.
From the "Prelude to a Kiss" soundtrack (1992)
If you hear a song in blue like a flower crying for the dew
That was my heart serenading you my prelude to a kiss
If you hear a song that grows from my tender sentimental woes
That was my heart trying to compose a prelude to a kiss
Though it's just a simple melody with nothing fancy
Nothing much you could turn it to a symphony
A Schubert tune with a Gershwin touch
Oh how my love song gently cries for the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss
Oh how my love song gently cries for the tenderness within your eyes
My love is a prelude that never dies
A prelude to a kiss
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What a wonderful rendition. D. Harry's beautiful voice makes it even better.
Duke Ellington, a work of Genius!
Her little girl voice ("Shayla") has aged with a smokey and knowing maturity that is now so perfect for jazz.
Prelude to a Kiss is an odd little movie that I don't think many people paid attention to, but Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan were really good in it, BUT my favorite thing about the movie was Debbie Harry's version of this song--it's not an easy song to pull off, but Harry does a fantastic job of it and the arrangement is sublime.
This movie was amazing! I really lived Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan performance, specially that shot when he asks "fake" Rita where is the "real" Rita. His tears touched me and looked so real.
The Orchestra is Simply Magnificent!!
absolutely beautiful - great voice and tenderness.
Debbie is enchanting in this rendition!
God what Lyrics!! Music from Heaven!!
This is, BY FAR, the absolute best version of the classical song. Howard Shore, a great by any form of measurement, really goes beyond his norm and takes this to a whole new level. Then the vocals. Wow. The singer's long time collaboration partner, Chris Stein, put it best when he said, "the magic of Deborah is that every once in awhile I will hear something she does and think to myself 'there is no one on this planet that could what she just did any better'" and that applies perfectly here. As talented as Etta and the others were that recorded this song, none of them come close the perfectness of Deborah's voice in this song. For those who don't give her the credit she deserves I recommend giving this a good listen. Great writer, great composer and great vocalist. This one is a winner.,
My Favorite rendition of this Classic! Deborah Harry is Sublime!! With Howard Shore's Wonderful Arrangement!
Words are Wonderful:)Jazzy nice notes and beautiful harmony..Debbie velvet voice.
wonderfull!!!
Oooo so wonderful... The movie has just ended. How beautiful... I have tears in my eyes😥 Prelude to Kiss💋wonderful movie and music❤🤗😊😘
You are so right. I love it when singers whom you would normally not expect to do a bang up job singing a classic jazz song surprise you with an outstanding performance. Ellington's classic "Prelude to a Kiss" is such a gorgeous song and has been done by every female jazz vocalist, and Deborah Harry knocks it out of the park. I believe that is Toots Thielemans on Harmonica...so beautiful.
So beautiful
Howard Shore is responsible for this Lush, delicious, Harmonic sound! The Best Version of this Classic song!!
Awesome!!
omg it's Debbie! I had no clue until just now, I like how she uses Deborah instead of Debbie
My God!! This is Awesome!!
This is Perfection!!
Stephen. My favourite version of this Classic by Debbie Harry. Jazzy,sexy,enticing,smooth like a cloud.
The Duke's Masterpiece!!!
The whole soundtrack of this movie is fantastic with the haunting "om je better op te koenen etten" (the better to eat you in dutch).....can anyone post this here at youtube.
And I thought I'd heard all of her stuff! :)
The Great Toots Shore on Harmonica!!
This song is from the hilarious movie Prelude To A Kiss. Great chemistry between Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan. Great message in the story.
@MegaWinston999
6 жыл бұрын
ok ... cool movie ... but really from Duke Ellington... many many years before the movie
Amazing Song, Move but imagine pitching this saying to the producers of the movie "that girl from the Punk Band Blondie is going to sing a Duke Classic and we got Toots on Harmonica!"
Who would have thunk it...Deborah Harry and Jazz....
@bingbong6768
8 жыл бұрын
+Allan Birmantas They did jazz on their 1980 album Auto American with Heres Looking At You etc.
Marcos T, I suggest you excise the first line, "Originally by Ella Fitzgerald," as she had no hand in writing the lyrics, nor the tune, and the arrangement here is a transcription of the "P to a Kiss" on the 1958 Ellington Indigos album, the only difference being that the Indigos version is an instrumental where Johnny Hodges plays what is sung here. On a more positive note, I think Ms Harry acquits herself quite well here. I was expecting poppie excess, but this is all very knowledgably and movingly done. And the accompanying players exhibit great skill. Prelude to a Kiss was composed in 1938. I can't say when the first version with vocals was recorded, but I know that Sarah Vaughn recorded it in 1954.
@marcosssssssssss1990
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment, and sorry for the (huge) delay on replying and correcting the description. I took the information from a well documented Blondie/DH website that sadly doesn't exist anymore and I see it had blurry facts.
Reminded me of the less familiar "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing."
Piano and Arrangement by Howard Shore!!
It`s a pity, there are so many synthetic - sounds in the Background, mushing it all up.
@kaunasprince
10 жыл бұрын
What is synthetic? I hear trombones, piano, saxes and a harmonica. Trumpets later, and one hell of a nice chart.
@bminorscales
9 жыл бұрын
Sorry, Berliner, you got it quite wrong. Those aren't synthesizers in the background, those are real wind instruments, and the arrangement itself is a true transcription of that played by the Ellington band itself on the Ellington Indigos album.