Don't get me wrong, I generally dig the entire Rodgers & Hammerstein (and Hart) songbook, but find the original film version of "My Favorite Thing" to be aural pablum with truly cringe-inducing lyrics. Coltrane took the song and injected it with otherworldly spirit and soul; while his studio version is gorgeous, he took it even further into the stratosphere live. My favorite version is from 1961 with Eric Dolphy killing it on flute (found in mediocre fidelty on the European Impressions LP), but this version here from a few years later, which I only recently discovered, is fucking sonic perfection on par with the greateast of all American art.
"Love me the way you do now, forever." Empty white sheets and a propped pillow. Black underwear and fallen golden hair. Tomorrow i...
