Der Kreisel

Errol Garner plays his 1954 composition Misty, live on the BRT studio, Brussels 1964. 

Just the next year, Ella Fitzgerald would sing Johnny Burke’s lyrics, which I absolutely love, live in London with the Tommy Flanagan trio, listen below.

Look at me
I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree
And I feel like I’m clinging to a cloud
I can’t understand
I get misty, just holding your hand

Walk my way
And a thousand violins begin to play
Or it might be the sound of your hello
That music I hear
I get misty, whenever you’re near

You can say that you’re leading me on,
But it’s just what I want you to do
Don’t you notice how hopelessly I’m lost?
That’s why I’m following you

On my own
Would I wander through this wonderland of love?
Never knowing my right foot from my left,
My hat from my gloves
I’m too misty, and too much in love

Too misty, and too much in love
Look at me