Showing posts with label The Four Winds and the Seven Seas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Four Winds and the Seven Seas. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Mel Tormé's "The Four Winds and the Seven Seas"

I just started listening to the last disc in a four-disc set of Mel Tormé titled Jazz and Velvet.  I noticed that after the lines "We vowed and said someday we'd wed / In the church in the vale" in "The Four Winds and the Seven Seas," the first four notes of the "Here Comes the Bride" wedding march (from Wagner's Lohengrin) are played on what I think is a celesta.

Additionally, there's an-other hint of wedding accoutrements with the vale/veil homophone.  It actually took a bit of thinking before I sussed out the line.  It's "vale" as in "valley."