I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
"I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" is a popular song. The music was written by Arthur Schwartz; the lyrics by Howard Dietz. The song was published in 1929. The song originated at Brant Lake Camp in the Adirondacks where Schwartz was a music counselor. The original title of the song was "I Love to Lie Awake in Bed." The lyrics are as follows: I love to lie awake in bed Right after taps I pull the flaps above my head And watch the stars upon my pillow Oh what I light the moonbeams shed I feel so happy I could cry And tears are born right in the corner of my eye To be at home with Ma was never like this I could live forever like this I love to lie awake a while And go to sleep with a smile
The song was originally given the sub title of "The Blue Pajama Song" because of the opening lines of the first refrain: "I guess I'll have to change my plan / I should have realized there'd be another man / Why did I buy those blue pajamas / before the big affair began?"[1] These lyrics are often changed to "I overlooked that point completely/ before the big affair began".
The song was introduced by Clifton Webb in the 1929 revue The Little Show and sung by Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan in the 1953 musical film, "The Band Wagon." It was also sung by Marsha Mason and Kristy McNichol in the 1981 Neil Simon comedy-drama film Only When I Laugh (which was the motion picture version of Simon's Broadway play The Gingerbread Lady). It was also used as incidental music in the film "The Big Sleep" and has become a pop standard, recorded by many artists.
Other recordings
- Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees- this was a major hit in 1932.[2]
- Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians - recorded August 17, 1932 for Brunswick Records (catalog 6363).[3] This also reached the charts of the day.[4]
- Layton & Johnstone (1933).[5]
- Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1954[6] for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009.[7]
- Lester Young - The Jazz Giants '56 (1956)
- Jaye P. Morgan - included in her album Jaye P. Morgan (1956).[8]
- Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair! (1957)
- Julie London - Julie Is Her Name, Volume II (she sings about "black pajamas"). (1958)
- Patti Page - for her album Patti Page – The West Side (1958).[9]
- Tony Bennett - Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (1959)
- Anthony Newley - included in his album Love Is a Now and Then Thing (1960).[10]
- Bobby Darin - recorded for his album Love Swings (1961)
- Kay Starr - for her album Back to the Roots (1975).[11]
- Stacey Kent - Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire (2000)
- Seth MacFarlane - No One Ever Tells You (2015)
- Bob Dylan - Triplicate (2017)
References
- ↑ "Cafe Songbook". greatamericansongbook.net. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 427. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
- ↑ "The Online Discographical Project". 78discography.com. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 277. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
- ↑ "45worlds.com". 45worlds.com. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
- ↑ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
- ↑ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
- ↑ "lpdiscography". lpdiscography.com. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
- ↑ "Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
- ↑ "Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
- ↑ "Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved October 7, 2017.