Old Friend - Gretchen Cryer-Nancy Ford

[engelbach]

Old Friend is most popular song from the 1978 musical I'm getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road.

I'm putting it in the Jazz section even though it's not an improvisational tune, because none of the pop rhythms available on iReal Pro seems quite suitable for what is essentially a lovely bittersweet ballad.

There are several outstanding versions of this on YouTube. Here are my two favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gg3oef9LwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od3NQfna0pY

Old Friend - Cryer and Ford

Cheers,
Jer

 

[raymb1]

Pretty tune. I'll have to learn it.

 

[engelbach]

I was browsing through The Ultimate Broadway Fake Book and was taken by it.

I wasn't familiar with it before, and was very moved by it.

Cheers,
Jer