Can’t We Be Friends by Frank Sinatra; Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

Wikipedia info:

• Written in 1929.
• Music by Kay Swift, first woman to score a complete musical
• Lyrics by Paul James, financial advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt

In The Wee Small Hours is one of Sinatra’s best albums and this is one of my favorite songs from it.

• Slowly paced with a simple and rich bassline
• Classic Sinatra sound

The Ella and Louis version is easy to fall in like with.

• Check the light, tight rhythm section
• Louis and Ella both sound amazing on this track

This is how the story ends
S/he’s gonna turn me down and say
“Can’t we be friends?”

Kay Swift and Paul James on Wikipedia
Sinatra and Ella+Louis on Amazon mp3