Novelist Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) wrote the lyrics, Folds set them to music. Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube
*A hidden track starts playing about 45 seconds after “Belinda” ends. It isn’t good (sorry, Messrs. H&F). I used mp3DirectCut to chop it from the copy here.
Peterson on piano, Ray Brown on bass, Ed Thigpen on drums. From Night Train (1963), produced by Norman Granz. There’s some debate over who wrote it; according to this page, clarinetist Barney Bigard “is likely the originator,” though Duke Ellington “undoubtedly arranged the piece for [his] orchestra.” Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube
A song later recorded by Simon & Garfunkel with (Art) Garfunkel singing lead. This recording comes from The Paul Simon Songbook, a solo album produced by Reginald Warburton and Stanley West and released in the UK in 1965. Garfunkel’s rendition of the melody is a bit more varied, and the better for it, but Simon’s is good too. Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube
underheard 