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Pretend You Don't See Her - Jerry Vale
🕑 Added 2022-07-10 18:06:15 +0000 UTCPretend You Don't See Her is a beautiful ¾ ballad, sang in 1961 by the legendary Jerry Vale accompanied by Percy Faith orchestra. Many years later, this recording appeared in Martin Scorsese’s movie Goodfellas (1990) where Jerry Vale’s character sings for the hotshots.
This composition was also covered by Bobby Vee and Jim Reevs.
The song is in the key of Bb major, it has a simple form of 32 bars which repeats two times. In the second chorus, the whole harmony modulates chromatically by a half step up to B major. This change is introduced by a small passage in F#7, in the last bar of the first chorus. This type of modulation is one of the most widely used in evergreen songs but in other genres as well.
