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Lullaby of Birdland
Lullaby of Birdland is a 1952 popular song with music by George Shearing and lyrics by George David Weiss under the pseudonym "B. Y. Forster" in order to circumvent the rule that ASCAP and BMI composers could not collaborate. The song has become a jazz standard.
Lullaby of Birdland is in thirty-two bar form, and its original key was F minor (or A♭ major). The song spends an equal amount of time in both minor and major modes F Minor & Ab Major . It follows a I – VI – II7 – V7 harmonic progression, and it has a I – VIø7 – IIø7 – V7 minor variation.
Shearing stated in his autobiography that he had composed the whole thing [...] within ten minutes.
The chord changes were partly from Walter Donaldson's Love Me Or Leave Me.
Lullaby of Birdland is in the Real Book - Volume 1
— Sixth Edition book.
A Few Great Versions TO Check OUt
- Ella Fitzgerald: Lullaby of Birdland
- George Shearing – Lullaby Of Birdland
- Errol Garner – Lullaby Of Birdland
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A solo, melody and chord arrangement for a Low G, C Tuned ukulele. Lullaby of Birdland is a jazz standard and popular song composed by George Shearing with lyrics by George David Weiss (under the pseudonym "B. Y. Forster").
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