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Second Chorus

Tired of losing gigs to the Perennials, Artie Shaw, playing himself, comes to woo Ellen away to be his booking manager.

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"Love Of My Life": Johnny Mercer and Shaw wrote this song one day over lunch at Mercer's house, and when the excited Shaw wanted to show it to the studio, Mercer persuaded him to wait three weeks explaining: "If you tell them you just wrote it over lunch they won't think it's any good".

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It features the use of strings – Shaw's "mice men" as he liked to call them, an innovation he had just begun to incorporate into his big-band compositions – most famously in "Frenesi" - the year before.

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