Confessin'

Popular jazz standard

"(I'm) Confessin' (that I Love You)"
Song
Published	1930
Composer(s)	Chris Smith
Lyricist(s)	Al J. Neiburg

"Lookin' for Another Sweetie"
Song
Published	1929
Songwriter(s)	Chris Smith, Sterling Grant

"(I'm) Confessin' (that I Love You)" (also known as "Confessin'", "I'm Confessin'" and "Confessin' that I Love You") is a jazz and popular standard that has been recorded many times.

Background

The song was first produced with different lyrics as "Lookin' For Another Sweetie", credited to Chris Smith and Sterling Grant, and recorded by Thomas "Fats" Waller & His Babies on December 18, 1929.^[1]^[2]

In 1930 it was reborn as "Confessin'", with new lyrics by Al Neiburg, and with the music this time credited to Doc Daugherty and Ellis Reynolds. Louis Armstrong made his first, and highly influential, recording of the song in August 1930,^[3] and continued to play it throughout his career.^[4] Unlike the crooners, Armstrong did not try to deliver the original song's lyrics or melody; instead, he smeared and dropped lyrics and added melodic scat breaks.^[5]

Cover versions

Other important recorded versions in the United States were done by:

Chester Gaylord (1930)
Seger Ellis (1930)
Guy Lombardo (1930), Rudy Vallee (1930)
Django Reinhardt (1934)
Perry Como (1945)
Les Paul and Mary Ford (1952)
Thelonious Monk (1965)
Anne Murray (1993)
Samara Joy (2022)
The song was also a number one hit for Frank Ifield in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1963.^[4]

References

^ Stephens, Joe. "Victor 78 Record 30000 - 39999 Discography". Retrieved 2011-05-27.
^ Riccardi, Ricky. "The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong: 80 Years of "Confessin'"". Retrieved 2011-05-27.
^ Minn, Michael; Johnson, Scott. "The Louis Armstrong Discography". Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
^ ^a ^b Burlingame, Sandra. "I'm Confessin' That I Love You". JazzStandards.com. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
^ Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. W.W. Norton & Company: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4.

Perry Como

Albums

Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music (1946)
So Smooth (1955)
We Get Letters (1957)
Saturday Night with Mr. C (1958)
When You Come to the End of the Day (1958)
Como Swings (1959)
Season's Greetings from Perry Como (1959)
For the Young at Heart (1960)
Sing to Me Mr. C (1961)
By Request (1962)
The Best of Irving Berlin's Songs from Mr. President (1962)
The Songs I Love (1963)
The Scene Changes (1965)
Lightly Latin (1966)
Perry Como in Italy (1966)
The Perry Como Christmas Album (1968)
Look to Your Heart (1968)
Seattle (1969)
Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas (1970)
It's Impossible (1970)
I Think of You (1971)
And I Love You So (1973)
Perry (1974)
Just Out of Reach (1975)
40 Greatest Hits (1975)
The Best of British (UK and Canada) (1977)
Where You're Concerned (US) (1978)
Perry Como (1980)
Perry Como Live on Tour (1981)
So It Goes / Goodbye for Now (1983)
Today (1987)
Perry Como's Christmas Concert (1994)
On the Radio – The Perry Como Shows 1943 (2009)
At the Supper Club (2010)
At the Supper Club Part II (2011)
At the Supper Club Part III (2011)

Songs

"'A' You're Adorable"
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"
"And I Love You So"
"As Time Goes By"
"Bali Ha'i"
"Because"
"Beyond Tomorrow"
"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"
"Blue Room"
"A Bushel and a Peck"
"Can't Help Falling in Love"
"Caterina"
"Catch a Falling Star"
"Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)"
"Confessin'"
"Days of Wine and Roses"
"Deep in the Heart of Texas"
"Delaware"
"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes"
"Dream Along with Me (I'm on My Way to a Star)"
"A Dreamer's Holiday"
"El Cóndor Pasa"
"Far Away Places"
"Feelings"
"Fly Me to the Moon"
"For the Good Times"
"Forever and Ever"
"Forget Domani"
"Give Me Your Hand"
"Glendora"
"The Gypsy in My Soul"
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
"He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"
"Hello, Young Lovers"
"Here, There and Everywhere"
"Home for the Holidays"
"Hoop-Dee-Doo"
"Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)"
"A House Is Not a Home"
"I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore"
"I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)"
"I May Never Pass This Way Again"
"I Think I Love You"
"I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now"
"I'll Be Home for Christmas"
"If (They Made Me a King)"
"It's a Good Day"
"It's Been a Long, Long Time"
"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
"Juke Box Baby"
"Kewpie Doll"
"Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)"
"Long Ago (and Far Away)"
"The Lord's Prayer"
"Magic Moments"
"Mandolins in the Moonlight"
"Maria"
"Moon River"
"More"
"No Other Love"
"Papa Loves Mambo"
"Please Mr. Sun"
"Prisoner of Love"
"Round and Round"
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
"Say You're Mine Again"
"Seattle"
"The Shadow of Your Smile"
"Some Enchanted Evening"
"Somos Novios (It's Impossible)"
"The Songs I Love"
"Stop! And Think It Over"
"Surrender"
"Till the End of Time"
"They Say It's Wonderful"
"Unchained Melody"
"Wanted"
"The Way You Look Tonight"
"What'll I Do"
"When You and I Were Young, Maggie"
"When You Were Sweet Sixteen"
"Young at Heart"

Category

v t e Judy Garland songs
1930s	"Good Morning" "Over the Rainbow" "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)"
1940s	"Among My Souvenirs" "Be a Clown" "The Boy Next Door" "A Couple of Swells" "Easter Parade" "F.D.R. Jones" "For Me and My Gal" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "How About You?" "I Wish I Were in Love Again" "It's a Great Day for the Irish" "Johnny One Note" "Journey to a Star" "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" "On the Sunny Side of the Street" "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" "The Wearing of the Green" "The Trolley Song"
1950s	"April Showers" "Carolina in the Morning" "Confessin'" "Day In, Day Out" "Get Happy" "How About Me?" "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" "I Concentrate on You" "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" "Just You, Just Me" "Last Night When We Were Young" "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" "More Than You Know" "The Man That Got Away" "Swanee" "Stormy Weather" "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" "Theme from San Francisco" "What'll I Do"
1960s	"After You've Gone" "Almost Like Being in Love" "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" "Down with Love" "Do It Again" "Fly Me to the Moon" "A Foggy Day" "Hey, Look Me Over" "I Happen to Like New York" "If Love Were All" "Moon River" "Oh Shenandoah" "Somewhere" "This Can't Be Love" "You Go to My Head"