#the entire Chet Baker discography

[psalmsofpsychosis]

My funny valentine Sweet comic valentine You make me smile with my heart

Your looks are laughable Unphotographable Yet, you're my favorite work of art

Is your figure less than Greek? Is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak Are you smart?

But don't change your hair for me Not if you care for me Stay, little valentine, stay Each day is Valentine's Day

[heartandmusic]

fuck it ik i made fun of the 20 favorite songs playlist literally like yesterday but i kept thinking about what songs i would pick so im posting it here cause no ones gonna read it lol.

Mr. Chu - Apink

Retrospect - Vistas

Atlas - COIN

Aficionado - BB Brunes

I Like It - Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull

Animal - Neon Trees

Since You Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

Stockholm Syndrome - One Direction

Save My Life - Niall Horan

Out of Sight - The Beths

Pour que tu m'aimes encore - Céline Dion

Emmenez-moi - Charles Aznavour

Chanson des jumelles from Les demoiselles de Rochefort

It All Fades Away from Bridges of Madison County

It's Always You - Chet Baker

You've Got a Friend - James Taylor

Being Alive from Company

Lascia ch'io pianga - Sissel Kyrkjebø

Méditation de Thaïs - Jules Massenet

Amore mio aiutami - Piero Piccioni

Honorable mentions:

The Beths entire fucking discography im so serious rn

Que reste-t-il de nos amours - Charles Trenet

She's So Gone from Lemonade Mouth

Misery Business - Paramore

That's the Way it is - Celine Dion

An Everlasting Love - Andy Gibb

Super Shy - NewJeans

Back to Before from Ragtime

Talk that Talk - Twice

Mamma Mia - ABBA

English Love Affair - 5 Seconds of Summer

Vincent - Don McLean

It's a Lovely Day Today - Ella Fitzgerald

Aime moi - Henri Salvador

Theme from Somewhere in Time - John Barry

Big Time Rush - Big Time Rush

If I Loved You from Carousel

Run Away With Me from that one Kerrigan/Lowdermilk musical or song cycle or project i think they changed the name a few times? i literally forgor oops

Till There Was You from The Music Man

Quando Quando Quando - Engelbert Humperdinck

Nessun Dorma

Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix

Mesícku na nebi hlubokém

Carnival of the Animals: The Swan - Saint-Saens

Souvenir d'un lieu cher (melodie) - Tchaikovsky

[terrence-silver]

Hi friend!!! I’ve missed sending you songs!!! <3 only 1 recommendation for you since it’s finals week, but I’m so excited for the month-ish break I’ll have & will be def be more active with recs 💖💖

-> My Funny Valentine (https://youtu.be/jvXywhJpOKs) & I Fall in Love Too Easily (https://youtu.be/IY32YgSJ8Cw) by Chet Baker immediatelyyyy reminds me of the late 40s/early 50s- specifically the aesthetic surrounding fashion, socialite ranking, & of course romance. The romance-esque aesthetic of the late 40s/early 50s reminds me of the ways in which women were able to exude sultriness and sexiness so effortlessly, whereas the men during this time were expected to uphold that stiff and brooding - but very much dominant - personalities. In this specific scenario I can soooo envision younger beloved surprising old man Terry with a date-night while these songs, and Chet Baker’s other discography plays. I can picture beloved being enamored with the glitz & glam of the 40s/50s nightlife scene- and being one who likes to go over the top for Terry - plans to turn the entire first floor into a space reminiscent of those days (I can’t begin to imagine what money can buy to help fulfill this fantasy). I’m picturing the overall aesthetic of what beloved would wear to be reminiscent of Hedy Lamarr or Gene Tierney <3. While Terry has an inkling beloved is up to something, he doesn’t feel the need to prod but rather indulge in the surprise. I can just imagine the night of beloved surprising him with a date-night; with the twist of turning their home into their own 40s-eque restaurant/nightclub, would be such a tender interaction🥺 Just the overwhelming sense of security and love that Terry is shown by beloved is enough to have him wanting to turn the house into a sanctuary she’ll never have to leave.

-Hope you have an amazing week & you have been blessing us with amazing content!!!!! ❤️🙌🏻🐞 -Doors girlie <3

I love it when people write little scenarios for me once in a while 🥺--- makes me super, super happy. And you've been writing so many so diligently, wonderful musical recommendations included, that I cannot help but smile every time you show up in my inbox with a goodie like this. Thank you, Doors girl. Missed your inbox treasures too. ❤️ --- this is a scenario right after my own heart. I adore all things retro like that too, songs, aesthetics or otherwise. This beloved could easily be me.

[a-la-rascasse]

before i actually sleep, top five musical artists and top five albums!

-jimclarkposting 💚

Five musical artists

The Beatles

The Smiths

Arctic Monkeys

Chet Baker

Françoise Hardy

Top five albums

Robber Soul

Arctic Monkeys' entire discography lmao

The Queen Is Dead

Franz Ferdinand

Definitely Maybe

[starlightkun]

I'm the same person that suggested those three songs, I've got more haha

Remember The Time by Michael Jackson

Back Door by Stray Kids

Illusion by ATEEZ

Wave by ATEEZ

Relationship by Anthony Ramos

Dear Diary by Anthony Ramos

Honeymoon Avenue by Ariana Grande

Sober by Childish Gambino

Bonfire by Childish Gambino

urs by NIKI

Stand By Me by WayV

Baby Baby by Jo Eun-Ae, Choi Sang Yeop

Hot Rod by Dayglow

Sanctuary by Joji

I Fall In Love Too Easily by Chet Baker (if you want a lofi-ish version listen to Caleb Belkin's)

Wish Upon A Star by Medda

Pacman by eaJ

This Love by Maroon 5

UwU (Band Version) by Chevy, Park Bird

okay yeah none of you follow my main so im literally an atiny, myday, and stay (THIS IS LITERALLY MY NCT ACCT USERNAME STARLIGHTKUN WHERE I SIMP OVER QIAN KUN CONSTANTLY HOW DO U THINK I HAVENT LISTENED TO STAND BY ME????????????????????)

i listened to bonfire religiously in 8th grade when i found it, and sober wasn’t rlly my taste ://

remember the time - i have a 57 year old mother bold of u to assume i havent listened to michael jacksons entire discography

relationship - wait why is liza koshy in the mv for this wtf anyway the song is fine ig idk it didnt rlly stand out to me??

dear diary - his voice is nice (which i already knew bc i was super into hamilton for like two months when it came out four years ago or whatever) but again this song didnt rlly catch my attention??

urs - women<3

baby baby - i found what im pretty sure is the right song but the title was in korean but it has both artists on it so im pretty sure im right. its a cute lil bop!!

hot rod - cute

sanctuary - i was aware of this when it came out bc i rlly liked his first album but i was pretty sure i hadnt heard it until the chorus sounded rlly familiar so maybe i heard it in an edit somewhere??? idk its a good song and i like joji! i think its hilarious whenever the 14 year old woke girls who thirst over him on tiktok find out that he was filthy frank 💀💀

i fall in love too easily - i have a 57 year old mother bold of you to assume i havent heard this before

wish upon a star - not rlly to my taste but its not bad

this love - cant believe that im listening to a maroon 5 song in the year of our lord 2020 but here i am this is a banger and has been since it came out (i am almost 19 years old bold of you to assume that maroon 5 songs werent in the soundtrack of my youth)

uwu - mm cute

any song recs??

[dazedandlucid]

have u listened to the hammond song? is that something rw taehyung would like? still trying to figure out his taste 🤔 also him and jk driving down some la's coastline jamming to red eyes by the war on drugs please

i’ve answered this before so this is my updated answer! oh man the roches had some great harmonies! i can see him liking this sort of music for sure. i mention his taste a bit in the fic though i tried not to talk about music too much as i already had another fic that was so much about music. but he likes mostly classical (vivaldi, tchaikovsky, brahms) and jazz (miles davis, john coltrane, chet baker, sun ra). it’s what he grew up on and has mostly stuck to that though he’s explored it more on on his own ie his dad wasn’t a huge experimental jazz fan but taehyung is. yoongi turned him onto david bowie and that ilk in college. lou reed, the new york dolls, iggy pop. talking heads. i always envision him as being really into blondie. pretenders. the bangles. massive neil young fan. chaka kahn. linda ronstandt. laura nyro. grace jones. kate bush. he had a hipsterish phase during grad school where he listened to a lot of real estate and deerhunter. went to a the national show during those years and didn’t “get it” but one day when he’s 45 he’ll realize his foolishness. or not. he seems like the kind of person who’s an aphex twin fan but is more of a boards of canada type. he does not get radiohead at all please stop trying to convince him thom yorke is not a pretentious fuck. he owns a bunch of classic flamenco recordings and if you want to get him to do some more of his awkward dude guy bopping just put some kraftwerk on and blast that shit loud.

and of course the great love of his musical life, his queen, also the queen of canada, celine.

the war on drugs is so so great! their entire discography is on my master rwcbmt playlist! definitely fits those west coast road tripping down the pacific highway vibes!

[mozgoderina]

Chet Baker Biography (AllMusic)

Chet Baker was a primary exponent of the West Coast school of cool jazz in the early and mid-'50s. As a trumpeter, he had a generally restrained, intimate playing style and he attracted attention beyond jazz for his photogenic looks and singing. But his career was marred by drug addiction.

Baker's father, Chesney Henry Baker,Sr., was a guitarist who was forced to turn to other work during the Depression; his mother, Vera (Moser) Baker, worked in a perfumery. The family moved from Oklahoma to Glendale, CA, in 1940. As a child, Baker sang at amateur competitions and in a church choir. Before his adolescence, his father brought home a trombone for him, then replaced it with a trumpet when the larger instrument proved too much for him. He had his first formal training in music in junior high and later at Glendale High School, but would play largely by ear for the rest of his life. In 1946, when he was only 16 years old, he dropped out of high school and his parents signed papers allowing him to enlist in the army; he was sent to Berlin, Germany, where he played in the 298th Army Band. After his discharge in 1948, he enrolled at El Camino College in Los Angeles, where he studied theory and harmony while playing in jazz clubs, but he quit college in the middle of his second year. He re-enlisted in the army in 1950 and became a member of the Sixth Army Band at the Presidio in San Francisco. But he also began sitting in at clubs in the city and he finally obtained a second discharge to become a professional jazz musician.

Baker initially played in Vido Musso's band, then with Stan Getz. (The first recording featuring Baker is a performance of "Out of Nowhere" that comes from a tape of a jam session made on March 24, 1952, and was released on the Fresh Sound Records LP Live at the Trade Winds.) His break came quickly, when, in the spring of 1952, he was chosen at an audition to play a series of West Coast dates with Charlie Parker, making his debut with the famed saxophonist at the Tiffany Club in Los Angeles on May 29, 1952. That summer, he began playing in the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, a group featuring only baritone sax, trumpet, bass, and drums -- no piano -- that attracted attention during an engagement at the Haig nightclub and through recordings on the newly formed Pacific Jazz Records (later known as World Pacific Records), beginning with the 10" LP Gerry Mulligan Quartet, which featured Baker's famous rendition of "My Funny Valentine."

The Gerry Mulligan Quartet lasted for less than a year, folding when its leader went to jail on a drug charge in June 1953. Baker went solo, forming his own quartet, which initially featured Russ Freeman on piano, Red Mitchell on bass, and Bobby White on drums, and making his first recording as leader for Pacific Jazz on July 24, 1953. Baker was hailed by fans and critics and he won a number of polls in the next few years. In 1954, Pacific Jazz released Chet Baker Sings, an album that increased his popularity but alienated traditional jazz fans; he would continue to sing for the rest of his career. Acknowledging his chiseled good looks, nearby Hollywood came calling and he made his acting debut in the film Hell's Horizon, released in the fall of 1955. But he declined an offer of a studio contract and toured Europe from September 1955 to April 1956. When he returned to the U.S., he formed a quintet that featured saxophonist Phil Urso and pianist Bobby Timmons. Contrary to his reputation for relaxed, laid-back playing, Baker turned to more of a bop style with this group, which recorded the album Chet Baker & Crew for Pacific Jazz in July 1956.

Baker toured the U.S. in February 1957 with the Birdland All-Stars and took a group to Europe later that year. He returned to Europe to stay in 1959, settling in Italy, where he acted in the film Urlatori Alla Sbarra. Hollywood, meanwhile, had not entirely given up on him, at least as a source of inspiration, and in 1960, a fictionalized film biography of his life, All the Fine Young Cannibals, appeared with Robert Wagner in the starring role of Chad Bixby.

Baker had become addicted to heroin in the 1950s and had been incarcerated briefly on several occasions, but his drug habit only began to interfere with his career significantly in the 1960s. He was arrested in Italy in the summer of 1960 and spent almost a year and a half in jail. He celebrated his release by recording Chet Is Back! for RCA in February 1962. (It has since been reissued as The Italian Sessions and as Somewhere Over the Rainbow.) Later in the year, he was arrested in West Germany and expelled to Switzerland, then France, later moving to England in August 1962 to appear as himself in the film The Stolen Hours, which was released in 1963. He was deported from England to France because of a drug offense in March 1963. He lived in Paris and performed there and in Spain over the next year, but after being arrested again in West Germany, he was deported back to the U.S. He returned to America after five years in Europe on March 3, 1964, and played primarily in New York and Los Angeles during the mid-'60s, having switched temporarily from trumpet to flügelhorn. In the summer of 1966, he suffered a severe beating in San Francisco that was related to his drug addiction. The incident is usually misdated and frequently exaggerated in accounts of his life, often due to his own unreliable testimony. It is said, for example, that all his teeth were knocked out, which is not the case, though one tooth was broken and the general deterioration of his teeth led to his being fitted with dentures in the late '60s, forcing him to retrain his embouchure. The beating was not the cause of the decline in his career during this period, but it is emblematic of that decline. By the end of the '60s, he was recording and performing only infrequently and he stopped playing completely in the early '70s.

Regaining some control over his life by taking methadone to control his heroin addiction (though he remained an addict), Baker eventually mounted a comeback that culminated in a prominent New York club engagement in November 1973 and a reunion concert with Gerry Mulligan at Carnegie Hall in November 1974 that was recorded and released by Epic Records. By the mid-'70s, Baker was able to return to Europe and he spent the rest of his life performing there primarily, with occasional trips to Japan and periods back in the U.S., though he had no permanent residence. He attracted the attention of rock musicians, with whom he occasionally performed, for example adding trumpet to Elvis Costello's recording of his anti-Falklands War song "Shipbuilding" in 1983. In 1987, photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber undertook a documentary film about Baker. The following year, Baker died in a fall from a hotel window in Amsterdam after taking heroin and cocaine. Weber's film, Let's Get Lost, premiered in September 1988 to critical acclaim and earned an Academy Award nomination. In 1997, Baker's unfinished autobiography was published under the title As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir and the book was optioned by Miramax for a film adaptation.

Baker's drug addiction caused him to lead a disorganized and peripatetic life, his constant need for cash requiring him to accept many ill-advised recording offers, while his undependability prevented him from making long-term commitments to record labels. As a result, his discography is extensive and wildly uneven.

  Source: AllMusic / Written by William Ruhlmann. Link: Chet Baker Biography Illustration: Deborah Feingold. 'Chet Baker in NYC', 1977. Moderator: ART HuNTER. ✓ FAcEBook pAGE →  ✓ piNTEREsT BoARD → 

[fratgirls]

i can’t wait to get married one day and play chet baker’s entire discography at my wedding. chet baker is my love language