The Delta Rhythm Boys offer their usual smooth close harmony in this tuneful but ill-conceived soundie on the Ellington standard.
I love the song; anyone who's gone through a bad breakup can feel the quirky loneliness of the piece. But to have it sung in the Delta Rhythm Boys' close-harmony style seems a bit bizarre. Did one woman break up with all of them at the same time?
Ignoring the sense of the lyrics, of course, there's a lot to recommend the piece, the orchestration, and the smooth sound of the group. They arose as a college group in 1934, moved to Europe in 1956, and continued until the middle of the 1980s.
