February 14, 2017

The Daily Escape:

(The Long Room of the Library of Trinity College Dublin, built in 1592)

Today is Valentine’s Day, so we pause from blogging about what’s wrong to thinking about what’s right with the world, the people we love.

Wrongo would like you to listen to the late great Chet Baker, the hypnotic jazz trumpeter with a fabulous voice, who lost it all to heroin. Along the way, Baker also lost many teeth, both due to addiction, and to a street fight over drugs. It’s tough to play the horn without teeth, and it took Chet a few years to scrape up enough cash to fix his mouth and then learn to play the trumpet again. He was 58 when he died in 1988.

Here is Chet Baker with “Time After Time”, words by Sammy Cahn and music by Jule Styne in 1946:

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Lyrics:

Time after time
I tell myself that I'm
So lucky to be loving you
So lucky to be
The one you run to see
In the evening when the day is through
I only know what I know
The passing years will show
You've kept my love so young, so new
And time after time
You'll hear me say that I'm
So lucky to be loving you
I only know what I know
The passing years will show
You've kept my love so young, so new
And time after time
You'll hear me say that I'm
So lucky to be loving you
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