I’ll Be Seeing You written in 1938 by Sammy Fain and Irv Kahal became a classic WWII song of loss and longing. Sinatra had his hit in 1944 when it was a #1 record. Tony, Billie, Bing, Ella, all followed and many more after them.
The song is emblematic of a time when songs were made to last. Today, the young performers who have tired of the trivia they’ve been singing are one after another reclaiming this repertoire and this song especially. It makes sense. Adult songs for and about adults. Timeless melodies with deeply personal lyrics. Sometimes this song is so poignant that I am compelled to say, in the solos, that we can and will go on.