BLTN67 - I'm a Fool to Want You
BLTN67
Feb 06, 2023 05:39pm
<p>One of my favorite Frank Songs</p><p>thanks for stopping by....Hope I did it justice...</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>I'm a Fool to Want You</strong>" is a 1951 song composed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Frank Sinatra</a>, Jack Wolf, and Joel Herron.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Fool_to_Want_You#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><sup>[1]</sup></a> Frank Sinatra co-wrote the lyrics and released the song as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Columbia Records</a> single. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_ballad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">ballad</a> is considered a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">pop</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">jazz</a> standard.</p><h2><br></h2><h2><br></h2><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I%27m_A_Fool_To_Want_You_Frank_Sinatra_1951.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/I%27m_A_Fool_To_Want_You_Frank_Sinatra_1951.jpg/220px-I%27m_A_Fool_To_Want_You_Frank_Sinatra_1951.jpg" height="310" width="220"></a></p><p class="ql-align-center"> </p><p class="ql-align-center">1951 sheet music cover, Barton Music, New York.</p><p>Frank Sinatra first recorded the song with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles_(musician,_born_1918)#The_Ray_Charles_Singers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Ray Charles Singers</a> on March 27, 1951, in an arrangement by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Stordahl" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Axel Stordahl</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">New York</a>. It was the second song recorded at the sessions that began with "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Whistle_a_Happy_Tune" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">I Whistle a Happy Tune</a>" and ended with "Love Me". It is commonly thought by many listeners that Sinatra was navigating his stormy marriage to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Gardner" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Ava Gardner</a> at the time, but Sinatra and Gardner didn't marry until November 7, 1951, nearly 8 months after the song was recorded. It is more likely that he was melancholy about his wife, Nancy's, refusal to grant him a divorce so he could marry Gardner and his guilt for the impact his very public affair with Gardner was having on his family, especially his three children. To complicate matters, his career was in a freefall and he and Nancy were both Catholics and the Church forbade divorce. His emotional rendering of the song is haunting and it instantly became one of the classic "saloon songs" in his repertoire along with "One For My Baby", "Angel Eyes", "Don't Worry 'Bout Me", "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" and "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry" among many others.</p>