Like Someone In Love

"Like Someone In Love" is a romantic standard written by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke for the 1944 film Belle of the Yukon. Bing Crosby recorded the original version with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra that same year, a product of Crosby's longstanding insistence that Van Heusen and Burke be assigned to his pictures, an arrangement dating back to Road to Zanzibar in 1941. The song moved swiftly from Hollywood into the jazz repertoire, accumulating over 400 recordings. Frank Sinatra's 1953 session with Nelson Riddle proved highly influential in elevating the tune's profile beyond its film origins. Chet Baker offered an intimate vocal reading on Chet Baker Sings in 1956, while John Coltrane's 1957 piano-less trio version on Lush Life became perhaps the most celebrated instrumental interpretation. Art Blakey made it the title track of his 1960 album featuring Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter, demonstrating that the composition could support hard-swinging bebop treatments as convincingly as tender ballads. Ella Fitzgerald likewise chose it as a title cut for her 1957 album, and interpreters from Ahmad Jamal to Charles Mingus to Lambert, Hendricks and Ross have found fresh possibilities in its harmonic language. The tune is taken at a wide variety of tempos but nearly always swung, and musicians have recorded it in keys ranging from C to A-flat, reflecting its unusual adaptability to different instruments and voices.