Monday, November 25, 2019

"From Me to You"

Two days ago, I was thinking about "From Me to You" (actually, I was thinking about "From Us to You" - the slightly altered version from Live at the BBC), and I realized that it has a feature I've been noticing a lot lately.  In the lines "If there's anything that you want / If there's anything I can do," the syllables of the "anything"s are all sung to different pitches (E D C both times), musically giving a sense of the breadth of possibility.

There's a similar feature in the second verse, in the line "I got ev'rything that you want."  The syllables of "ev'rything" are also sung to different pitches (E D C again), musically giving a sense of breadth.