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"Crazy Rhythm" is a thirty-two-bar swing show tune written in 1928 by Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer, and Roger Wolfe Kahn for the Broadway musical ''Here's Howe''.〔(Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra ) at The Red Hot Jazz Archive〕 It has since become a jazz standard, inspiring at least 15 jazz albums named ''Crazy Rhythm'', often with the song itself included.〔("Crazy Rhythm" ) at All Media Guide〕 The song is also featured in the 1979 Steve Martin movie ''The Jerk'', with the performing artist unlisted in the credits. == Performances == ''Crazy Rhythm'' was first recorded (on Victor 21368-B) by Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra in New York in April 1928, with Franklyn Baur singing the chorus:〔〔(Victor label ) at The Victor Orthophonic Page〕 :Crazy rhythm, here's the doorway :I'll go my way, you'll go your way :Crazy rhythm, from now on :We're through. In addition, a well-received and quite elegant version of the song was recorded by Whispering Jack Smith (noted for his soft, but crystal clear 'whispered' delivery over the air waves); his recording quickly became one of the most recognised and favorite renditions of the song to flappers, their beaux, and other Bright Young Things of the Jazz Age. It has been covered by a full range of artists from mainstream jazz to hillbilly bebop. At least 150 covers have been recorded. Harry James, Shirley Bassey, The King Cole Trio, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Chet Atkins, Bix Beiderbecke, Ben Bernie, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Stephane Grappelli, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, Herman's Norwegian Jazz Group Soloist: Ragnar Robertsen (Recorded on October 27, 1954 and re-released on the extended play Odeon GEON 2), Mark Murphy, Les Paul, Hank Penny, Django Reinhardt, Nellie McKay, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra have all recorded this catchy tune. Most, but not all, are strictly instrumental.〔 Of special note is the performance by Doris Day and Gene Nelson in the 1950 film ''Tea for Two''. This is a frame tale based on a putative production of ''No, No, Nanette'' (written in 1925 by the prolific Caesar, Otto Harbach, and Vincent Youmans); "Tea for Two" being a number inserted into the original ''Nanette''. "Crazy Rhythm" is presented in this film as a demonstration for backers of the production-to-be. Thus, it has come to be associated with the popular "Tea" and ''Nanette'', while ''Here's Howe'' is largely forgotten. Day and Nelson also recorded "Crazy Rhythm" on the album ''Tea for Two''—not a soundtrack but a distinct studio recording in which Nelson does a tap solo, not seen or heard on film.〔(Tea for Two ) at Tap Wonderland〕 Tony Bennett recorded the song for his 1957 album ''The Beat of My Heart''. This notable recording is included on many of his (jazz) hit compilations. Another notable recording of the song is on 1961's ''Further Definitions'', by Benny Carter with Coleman Hawkins. This is one of Carter's most acclaimed recordings.〔(Carter, Benny ) at Encyclopædia Britannica Online〕〔(Diamond Jubilee of Jazz ) at ''American Heritage''〕 ''Encounters of Every Kind'' is an album by Meco, released in 1978. It was recorded after the success of Meco's platinum-selling album ''Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk'', and in a similar fashion to that album, contained disco-styled interpretations of the original score from the film ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind''. On side B the first song is a cheerful rendition of "Crazy Rhythm", with gunshots in stereo and the lyrics with music in slow transition to the Meco's funk-jazz style. "Crazy Rhythm" is, for the working jazz musician, inescapable. At a 2006 Birdland performance, post-bop pianist Andrew Hill "...who never plays anyone's standards but his own, began playing the opening motif from Meyer and Caeser's 1928 'Crazy Rhythm.' The drums played against the piano and the bass repeated an off-kilter Latin beat, but Tin Pan Alley was somewhere buried in the subtext... It was a clever moment, a rare nod to accessibility in an extremely opaque evening."〔(Brilliant Corners ), David Yaffe's review of Hill's 2006 Birdland concert at The Nation〕 Another use of the tune was by Stephen Temperley in his 2004 play ''Souvenir''. Its lead character, pianist, songwriter and singer Cosmé McMoon, sings and accompanies himself in this song throughout the play in snippet form while he tells the story and acts with the other character in the play, soprano Florence Foster Jenkins. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crazy Rhythm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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