Post 164: 'ST. JAMES INFIRMARY' AND 'YOU LET ME DOWN'

Sometimes you find that two songs which - on the surface - seem quite different are in fact based a virtually identical chord structure. For example, the many tunes using the Bill Bailey chords are well known to all jazz musicians.

Similarly Please Don't Talk About Me is harmonically identical to Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl?).

But today I was listening to You Let Me Down written originally for Billie Holiday, I think, by Warren and Dubin in 1935. What struck me is that  this song - in a minor key - sounds harmonically very similar (almost identical) to St. James' Infirmary.