Anybody remember a television series called The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet?  Well, the star of the show, Ozzie Nelson (Oswald George Nelson), was the first to record “Dream a Little Dream of Me” in 1931.  There have been some 60 versions of this song, but by far the best was Mama Cass in 1968.  Years later, she said in an interview that she tried to do the song as if it were 1943 and she’d just been handed a brand new song – “I tried to sing it like it was the first time”.  She even did her own whistling toward the end of the song.

I heard an arrangement I really liked a few years ago and set about creating a sequence just like it.  We got pretty close actually.  You can grab the backing tracks off the Jazz list on the right.  If you click above, you can hear Karen doing our arrangement- I guess the 61st version.  She didn’t whistle a note, however…. we let the Yamaha do that.