There's No More Blue Time (vocal) – Tadd Dameron & Georgie Fame

Taken at a faster tempo than the instrumental version A Blue Time, this vocal version brings out a different side of the song that may not be obvious in a slower instrumental setting. The original Blue Mitchell version of A Blue Time, arranged by Tadd, is stately and dramatic; Georgie Fame's lyrics make it hip and subtly sophisticated. It's not the kind of blues that has a classic "blues feeling," but a major-key song that just happens to be based on blues changes.

Lyric Description: Like Never Been In Love, the lyric looks at love from two sides; before, when the blues were all-encompassing, and after, when love has conquered and the blues are vanquished.

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This arrangement presents There's No More Blue Time as part of a blues medley. Georgie Fame sings the melody in unison with the low brass on the first chorus, then with the saxes the second time and on the out head. Accordingly, he follows the melody as written without varying the rhythm—this is particularly noticeable on the fifth measure the first and second times. This medley also includes Taddd's Just Plain Talkin' and a Gigi Gryce shout chorus used in Batland.

This album is a sequel to "Dedications", a 1985 album with the same small big band instrumentation. Both feature vocalists Georgie Fame and Karin Krog with arrangements by Norwegian pianist Per Husby.

Shortly after writing the lyric, George Fame called the Second Floor Music/Twenty-Eighth Street Music office in New York to get our approval and arrange for a lyricist contract before recording the song.

In this trio setting, it's particularly interesting to hear Georgie Fame interpret the melody nearly as straight as he does with the big band arrangement (click on leftmost album cover). It is again part of a medley with Breezin' All The Way, another bebop blues that was also in the earlier big band medley. This latter head he interprets freely, focusing more on the lyrics than the melody.

Seventeen years after he wrote and recorded the lyric, Georgie Fame recorded There's No More Blue Time again, this time accompanied by guitar and bass only.