[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"chart:my-baby-just-cares-for-me":3},"title: My Baby Just Cares for Me\ncomposer: Walter Donaldson\nstyle: Medium\nkey: Eb\nform: ABCD, 32 bars\nrecording: Nina Simone; Little Girl Blue; Bethlehem; 1959\nyoutube: cIx8B9qirAw\n# analysis: 2026-10-19, rules v2; Eb\n# recording: recorded late 1957 (probably December), Beltone Studios, NYC, with Jimmy Bond, Albert \"Tootie\" Heath, Bethlehem BCP 6028, released February 1959; the reference reading of the Donaldson–Kahn song, which became a hit when it was reissued in 1987 (Wikipedia); video: Bethlehem Records' official channel, the album track, the same take (not the Montreux live versions)\n\n# bar | chord | scale\n\nsection: A\nbars: 8\n1 | EbMaj7    # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n2 | Ab7#11    # IV7 in Eb, not resolving: the #11 is in the key\n3 | EbMaj7    # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n4 | Ab7#11    # IV7 in Eb, not resolving: the #11 is in the key\n5 | EbMaj7\u002FG  # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n6 | Gbdim7    # passing diminished: a rootless dominant ♭9\n7 | Fm        # ii: Dorian, the key’s own notes\n\nsection: B\n1 | Dm7b5     # iiø7 of C minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n2 | G7        # V7\u002Fvi in Eb: b9 and b13 are in the key\n3 | Cm        # vi: Aeolian, the key's own notes (the ♭6 is a passing note)\n4 | Dm7b5     # iiø7 of C minor: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n4 | G7        # V7\u002Fvi in Eb: b9 and b13 are in the key\n5 | Cm        # ii of F7#11: Dorian\n6 | F7#11     # V7\u002FV in Eb: the #11 from the symbol\n7 | Fm7       # ii of the ii–V to Eb\n8 | Bb7       # V7 of Eb: natural tensions\n\nsection: C\nbars: 8\n1 | EbMaj7    # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n2 | Ab7#11    # IV7 in Eb, not resolving: the #11 is in the key\n3 | EbMaj7    # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n4 | Ab7#11    # IV7 in Eb, not resolving: the #11 is in the key\n5 | Gm7b5     # iiiø7 in Eb: Locrian, its own mode (the chord is outside the key)\n6 | Gbdim7    # passing diminished: a rootless dominant ♭9\n7 | Fm        # ii: Dorian, the key’s own notes\n\nsection: D\n1 | AbMaj7    # IV: the #4 is the key’s 7th\n2 | Am7b5     # iiø7 of D7: Locrian, the key's own notes (its ♭2 is a passing note)\n2 | D7        # V7\u002Fiii in Eb: b9 and b13 are in the key\n3 | Abm7      # ii of Db7: Dorian\n3 | Db7       # extended ii–V: a side-step, its own key\n4 | Gm7       # iii: Phrygian, the key's own notes (the ♭2 is a passing note)\n4 | C7        # V7\u002Fii in Eb: the b13 is in the key\n5 | Fm7       # ii of Bb7: Dorian\n6 | Bb7       # V7\u002FI in Eb: natural tensions\n7 | EMaj7     # ♭IImaj7, borrowed from Eb Phrygian: Lydian (its ♯11 is in the key)\n8 | EbMaj7    # tonic: the 4th is in the key\n",1793484801601]