oldies....

[cleofus1]

francis langford....


just noodling on the guitar...i'm tickled that i can play i'm in the mood for love!



I'm In the Mood for Love
Words & Music by Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields, 1935
Recorded by Frances Langford, 1936 (#5 on the Hit Parade)
From the movie "Every Night at Eight"


D G6 A7 D
I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me.

F#m7 Fdim Em7 A7 D Em7 A7
Funny, but when you're near me, I'm in the mood for love.



D G6 A7 D
Heaven is in your eyes, bright as the stars we're under;

F#m7 Fdim Em7 A7 D DM7
Oh, is it any wonder I'm in the mood for love?



Bridge:

G6 A7 D Am6 B7
Why stop to think of whether

Em6 A7 D
This little dream might fade?

Bm6 C#7 F#m
We've put our hearts together;

Dm6 C7-5 C7 Gdim Em7 A7
Now we are one, I'm not afraid!



D G6 A7 D
If there's a cloud above, if it should rain, we'll let it;

F#m7 Fdim Em7
But for tonight, forget it!


First time:

A7 D A7
I'm in the mood for love.


Last time:

A7sus4 A7 Gdim D Bm7 G Gdim D
I'm in the mood for love.

[Ron Green]

1. Great song, great tune...

I think I'd rather do it in Bb, though.
:)

[cleofus1]

2. how would you transpose that?

everything 3 1/2 steps up?

[Ron Green]

3. Everything would be a major third lower, and four flats "flatter."

So the V chord would be F7, rather than A7, and so on. It's a key that more jazz players would be comfortable in, and of course horn players. In the key of D, a tenor sax player would be in 4 sharps, while in Bb he'd be in C.

[leftofthedial]

4. man, I love those great old songs

you can't get away with unvarnished sentiment like that anymore :-(

[cleofus1]

5. i love to find songs

from cole porter and bing crosby and nat king cole and all those types...dean martin etc and re interpret them on the guitar...for the most part i get a real positive response from people...lots o younger people do not even recognize the song, but still seem to have a connection to it...