[Ads-l] intrusive R again

[Laurence Horn]

Following a link in a Times review of jazz/blues singer Catherine Russell at Birdland, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/arts/music/review-catherine-russell-sings-still-resonant-standards-at-birdland.html, I checked the original recording of one of the songs.  The singer (and songwriter) is Lil Green, in a recording from 1940:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDv3s4esXqg

The intrusive R in question comes in the very first line of the song, at 0:40:

In the dark it's just you [r]an' I.

LH

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