Well, I love jazz and I adore the song Imagination, but I have never been too keen on Chet Baker.
Anyway, here is my favorite take on Imagination.
Jimmy Van Heusen / J. Burke- lyrics
1940
Imagination is funny
It makes a cloudy day sunny
It makes a bee think of honey
Just as I think of you
Imagination is crazy
Your whole perspective gets hazy
Starts you asking a daisy
What to do, what to do
Have you ever felt a gentle touch
And then a kiss, and then and then
Find it’s only your imagination again
Imagination is silly
You go around willy nilly
For example I go around wanting you
And yet I can’t imagine that you want me too
Frank Sinatra is another of my favorites, Chet Baker too, although it’s not easy to handle his sad aura.
In the case of this song, I liked the paradox between the first lines of the song: “Imagination is funny… It makes a cloudy day sunny” and the decadent figure of Chet.
But let’s encourage…
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