My Melancholy Baby, Dino style, sung by me

This is me singing My Melancholy Baby using the excellent ragtime piano accompaniment provided by music4karaoke. I’m singing it in Dean Martin style. I recorded several takes but decided to use the first, even though it’s the least polished with quite a few phrasing errors. The effect I was aiming for was of a drunk wandering into a Thirties honky tonk, staggering over to the piano player, leaning over him in wobbly, sozzled style and singing the song as best he could manage after an evening on the sauce. The piano style here reminded me that the song played a prominent part in the soundtrack of the classic 1939 James Cagney movie The Roaring Twenties. Hence the stills I’ve chosen for the slideshow. The key scene near the end sees one-time top bootlegger Cagney reduced to a sozzled wreck in Gladys George’s bar. The reason: he loves Priscilla Lane but she’s married someone else. Meanwhile, saloon gal Gladys George loves him.... My Melancholy Baby keeps playing in the background th