Cyrille Aimee Carries the Day [by David Lehman]

Cyrille Aimee

Cyrille Aimee  of the curls 

proves vocally that “Three Little Words”

as done with pianistic elegance by Dick Katz in 1992

remains a great jazz standard

in the “I love you” category

illustrated by Sinatra in “I Love You” (Harlan Thompson music,

Harry Archer words) in 1953, which I recommend you listen to

after watching Stalag 17 in which the song orchestrates

the POW party in the barracks where the Animal, drunk

and deluded, thinks he is dancing with Betty Grable.