But Not For Me, by Chet Baker.
This song originates in a musical with Ginger Rogers singing it, if I understand correctly, though the lineage of some “standards” tends to run back to lines like “well, actually, it was used in six musicals no one ever saw before GInger Rogers made it famous,” but none of that really matters — OK, the Billie Holliday version certainly matters, and the Ella Fitzgerald version is well known — but otherwise, none of that really matters to me except the version of this song on Chet Baker Sings, a CD which I played to death, and/or which was killed in the great freshman-year-of-college-is-over-time-to-UPS-the-CD-collection-home-poorly which was several bad decisions layered on top of each other.
As I understand it, bad decisions were a speciality of Chet Baker’s, and he is not alone in that respect.
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This is one of a few jazz numbers I had penciled into the list. I’ve worked on John Coltrane’s Naima on and off for a couple decades, but idk if I will pull it off in the next 13 days. I have a Nature Boy on the list, mostly because I want to sing it. We’ll see.