Jazz Play Along Favorite Standards It Could Happen to You (with sheet music)

 Jazz Play Along Favorite Standards It Could Happen to You (with sheet music available in our Sheet Music Library, included in Aebersold's Jazz Play-Along Vol 22 )Play Jazz Standards!"It Could Happen to You" is a popular standard with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. The song was written in 1943 and was introduced by Dorothy Lamour in the Paramount musical comedy film And the Angels Sing (1944).A recording by Jo Stafford made on December 13, 1943, was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 158. It reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on September 21, 1944, at number 10, its only week on the chart. Bing Crosby's recording for Decca Records, made on December 29, 1943,had two weeks in the Billboard charts in September 1944, with a peak position of number 18.The Dexter Gordon composition "Fried Bananas" is based on the changes of "It Could Happen to You".