Who Sang I Like to Recognize the Tune? John Pizzarelli

John Pizzarelli With a Song in My Heart cover art

Release information
Release Date: 2008
Genre: Jazz
length: 4:36
composer: Richard Rodgers, Richard Rodgers
lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart
orchestrator: Robert Russell Bennett

I like to recognize the tune
I want to savvy what the band is playing.
I keep saying, must you bury the tune?
I've got to know the answers soon
Is it a cat meowing in the attic? Is it static?
Must you bury the tune?
A guy named Tony plays the drums like thunder,
But the melody is six feet under.
There isn't anyone immune---
They kill the Billy Roses and Puccinis. Don't be meanies. Must you bury the tune?
But the melody is .... under
There isn't anyone immune---
They kill the Arthur Schwartzes and the Glinkas.
Don't be shtinkers. Must you bury the tune?

Tracklist
CD 1

1 With a Song in My Heart

2 This Can't Be Love

3 I Like to Recognize the Tune

4 It's Easy to Remember

7 Happy Talk

10 The Lady Is a Tramp

11 She Was Too Good to Me

12 You've Got to Be Carefully Taught