The song of the day for Thursday, August 20, 2026, is “You Go To My Head.”
About This Song
“You Got To My Head” was written in 1938 by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie, the same songwriting team that gave us “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.” Alec Wilder called “You Got To My Head” “a phenomenon” and “a minor masterpiece.” Al Gioia in The Jazz Standards notes that “this song comes closer than any tune I know to capturing in musical form the feeling of losing control.”
About This Version
Tony Bennett recorded “You Got To My Head” on October 14, 1957, for his third LP album, The Beat of My Heart. Ralph Sharon wrote the arrangement.
“You Go To My Head,” as well as the Beat of My Heart, is available on Apple Music.
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