Saturday, March 16, 2019

Standard of the Week: 3 versions of "I'm Confessin' that I Love You"

So I got to thinking about the song "I'm Confessin' that I Love You." What a beautiful song, thought I. If you Google the title you get Doris Day right off the bat (which is fine by me).


Of course there are a lot of great versions of the song out there. Here's one from the Chantels.


Wikipedia tells us that the song with its present lyrics (by Al Neiburg) debuted back in 1930, and since then it has been recorded countless times, but the versions I like best are the jazz instrumentals. It doesn't really get any better than Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio:


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