Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

 I had a yen to record a song last night. It's from 1929 by Richard Whiting and Neil Moret. It started as a makeup letter that Whiting wrote to his wife. They had had an argument, and he wanted to apologize. So, he wrote her these self-deprecating lyrics, and it became the basis for this enduring song. 

There's a line in it: "Still I am sure she would follow me west." That referred to him wanting to move to Hollywood because the nascent movie industry was burgeoning, and he thought it would be good for his career as a songwriter to get out there. 

So, what started as a real-life apology and plea became a jazz standard that people are still performing a century later. It's called: She's Funny That Way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkMSbq93GBE