I LIKE WHAT YOU LIKE

(Rollini / Keane / Rogers (m & l) )


As sung by Annette Hanshaw with Joe Venuti  and Adrian Rollini 1927


(Intro and final by the multi-instrumentalist Adrian Rollini, 

bass saxophone, jazz violin, piano and others)


I like what you like

And you like what I like

Why can't you like a little girl like me?


I know that you know

That I go where you go

That I like you, it's plain to see.


We could be happy

If you'll say the word

Tell me you want to

Now you do, don't you?

You will, won't you?


Let's have a showdown

And give me the lowdown

Why can't you like a girl like me.


(bridge to end)


Notes:


(Catherine) Annette Hanshaw, an American, was a blues and jazz singer

from the 1920s and early 1930s and was purportedly one of the first

female jazz singers of that era.


She was known as 'The Personality Girl' or later as the 'The Flapper

Girl' by her followers and fit the 1920s period perfectly with her

flapper style and sweet innocent-sounding voice. She often ended her

songs with the cute tag "That's All" (above).


See  MY BLACKBIRDS ARE BLUEBIRDS NOW and  
LOVABLE & SWEET .


Some consider the later Hanshaw, a 'torch singer' along with the likes

of Ruth Etting, Mildred Bailey, Jane Froman and Bebe Daniels.

Strangely,she thought her abilities 'wanting' by her own standards and

retired early to married life, after only 15 years in the business.


Hanshaw also recorded under the names 'Gay Ellis' or 'Dot Dare' or

'Patsy Young' and a variety of other pseudonyms.


(Transcribed by David Story May 2014